A Doctor in the House by croxie

2D • Film/TV • posted on Dec 12, 2008

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First of all: Thank you so very much for all your comments on my past digital paintings :) You make it worth while trying. As I'm uploading this I'm browsing through your galleries since today is a slacker day :p At least for me it is...right now. And thank you for all the favorites. I'm glad you enjoy this enough to actually save my images for later :) Anyways....above is Hugh Laurie, our good ol Doctor House. The photo I used as a preference was in colour, but because black & white will show more contrast in a different way, I decided to stay away from the colour this time. His face has a lot of character and unfortunately a lot of that disappeared in the colour version. A bit technical stuff: The eyes I do in layers, some of those layers are brighter, some are fuzzy and so on. The background that the face was painted on is actually a mix of light brown, green and blue. Since I'm a traditional artist I paint using my Wacom and Photoshop in the same way as I would do in oil, and having an underpainting in colour makes the black and white less flat. What is not included is a lot of fine lines in his face. I had way too much mulled wine last night when I finished this...and my partner kept writing on his laptop (read banging on his laptop :p) so my desk was literally jumping here...hehe Neither of those makes for painting thin lines. And I'm not 100% happy about the wrinkles either..but oh well. Can't have it all. Thanks for peeking in :D Now I'm going back to your galleries. I'm so hopelessly behind. Christa

Comments (25)

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efron_241

7:59AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

sad to hear about your slacker day i hope you recover soon your image is great ... you should be 100% happy abit it. it is super

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Mondwin

8:03AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

Superbly work my Dear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma. Merry Christmas to You!!!!!!!!!

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thecytron

8:06AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

AmaZZZZzzzzzzzzzzing look alike portrait!

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faroutsider

8:07AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

Fabulous artwork, Christa. The eyes are absolutely stunning.

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steelborn

8:10AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

Well, i would give my right hand (yes, my right hand :P) for being able to paint at this level. I LOVE IT!

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croxie

8:16AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

steelborn - does that mean that you're right handed? :p

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darman42

8:18AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

I love the show and the actor. Your painting really does him justice. Good work.

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BigDen

8:48AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

This is truly great work and I enjoy House, when I can catch it.

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aerodreams

8:53AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

Fabulous artwork

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MINTY1974

9:02AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

Really nice lighting. I especially like the details around the eyes.

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Jilly

9:08AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

I like Hugh Laurie! Beautiful render

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croxie

9:13AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

LOL @ Jilly. It's not a render, hon...hehe...it's a painting...but thankies anyways ;)

november22

9:25AM | Fri, 12 December 2008

I think the concentration on the eyes is a good thing here, your partner should get some credit i suppose, quite like this, has the look of pencil. The poor word 'render', before digital it meant: draw, depict, portray et cetera; painting doesn't use paint and, oh well, things change, the middle can't hold - but i babble. Very cool work, he has an interesting face, you've captured it well. TATA

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