This is my second submission for a portrait adoption website, done in Painter IX. You may recognize some of the Poser elements used in my template image, but I am hoping that I'm getting better at disguising them. :) In this commissioned piece, the setting seems to be a combination of Asian & European influences. The client gave an extremely detailed description, and I did my best to include as many elements from it as possible and still keep it believable-looking. I did some research on baroque art for this, as the period was specifically mentioned by the client, and decided to try and emulate some of the lighting & poses from portraits in the later end of the period. It probably would have been -more- baroque to have gone with a totally painted look. But lately, I have really been enamoured of all the clean line-art I see people doing, and I wanted to give it a try for this. It's been a long time since I inked anything myself, and I was curious how close I could get with Painter's scratchboard tool. I did try to do the coloring in a painterly, sketchy, colored-pencil-type way, so hopefully that gives it a bit of the period flavor I was wanting for it.