Got Faith II by ShadowWind

Mixed Medium • Film/TV • posted on Apr 12, 2003

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Got Faith II Photoshop 6/Painter/Vue Well after some very helpful comments and some not so very helpful comments by IM, I took down the first version, redid many of elements and are posting it back here. Thanks to dragonmagic59, Kage, SirJohn, Danob, Flak, Moebius87, boven, charlie_mojo, and others for their support and to get me "back on the horse" as it were. The image was painted from scratch in photoshop, smoothed in painter and the background rendered in Vue. This is the final version. I need to go on with the next image... Credits: Image handpainted by ShadowWind PS: Thanks for your comments on my previous works. I'm sorry that I have been unable to keep up with them as of late, due to illness, but I do appreciate them very much...

Comments (35)

Sunster

11:21AM | Sat, 12 April 2003

Great image..nice smile! Thanks for sharing. :)

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Hyria

11:31AM | Sat, 12 April 2003

It's a great potrait ShadowWind :) Your painting skills are great. :)

Mikeangelo

11:48AM | Sat, 12 April 2003

Nice additional work, excellent painting. Dave

HobbyHopper

11:51AM | Sat, 12 April 2003

Always great to see you post! Your images have nice retouch work. This is one of your style. Thanks for sharing.

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Elfenone

12:08PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

Beautiful! You did wonderful! I can see her hair seems more resiliant.. bravo too S

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Moebius87

12:16PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

You've really captured this one very well. :o) Keep at it! As artists, I suppose that we'll never be completely happy with our own works, but I suspect the pleasure derived is in creating something that can be shared.

Thanks for sharing this portrait of Ms. Dushku, ShadowWind.

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borsy

12:43PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

Beautifully done!!!

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deemarie

12:48PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

I would know her anywhere - Excellent job :)

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SophiaDeer

1:20PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

Gorgeous work!! You did a fantastic job, bravo!!

linkinpark

1:33PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

Wonderful painting,beautifuly done...!!

jeweldragon

2:52PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

beautiful image shad ! i love her smile !!

dragonmagic59

3:27PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

Well, well. Glad to see you reposted this one. Your painting skills never cease to amaze me. I really don't know what I would do if the ole Shadowwind didn't post. This world needs all the bright spots it can get. You art is definately one of the brightest of those rarities! Never give up on your art Shad. No matter what anyone says. Your talent is true!

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lemonjim

9:43PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

wow, painted by hand, yet it looks like a soft-focus photo. excellent work, shad!

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potrimpo

11:57PM | Sat, 12 April 2003

I think I am much closer to her than most members of Renderosity. Only because of the fact that I am EXACTLY, repeat EXACTLY 3 years older than her. Same birthday only I'm 3 years older.

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SirJohn

12:53AM | Sun, 13 April 2003

Excellent! So glad to see that you are back on the horse again:D I can only imagine the time it takes to do a portrait like this... keep em coming!

Kageboshi

3:14AM | Sun, 13 April 2003

You mean some chickenshit IM'ed you to badmouth your pic? that's low. At least have the balls to do it on here so we can all see what an asshole you are. Anyway, Kaze... I'm still impressed as hell that you do these things from scratch. But try not to get disheartened from bad comments. We all get them. All it is, is an opinion and the comment is meant to shape your work into something more palatable to them. Don't worry about it. The most important opinion, the ONLY opinion you need worry about is your own. You know what you can do, and you know if you've done the best job you can. If that's what you've done, and are happy with it, that's all you need concern yourself with.

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danob

4:17AM | Sun, 13 April 2003

Superb work the extra fine details is confusing them!! And few could carry this off my friend... You never fell off yer horse lol just lost a stirrup for a while.

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ariaans

5:11AM | Sun, 13 April 2003

Yeah, this looks better! Worth the reworking on it! Much bette hair! Better lightning on it too! Perhaps you could make the background a bit softer too at least at some places to keep in style with the portrait, because it looks very sharp and it's further away.

ex_cal

5:44AM | Sun, 13 April 2003

Wow... really really well done!!

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racin-jason

4:50PM | Sun, 13 April 2003

Your portraits from scratch my friend - (even what some consider inadequate) - are far better than 90% of the software produced images that get posted and praised to death - as if they were all hand done. I saw the original version of this render when you first posted, and I read with a bit of consternation, a couple of comments originating from sources that couldn't begin to draw and paint so much as three strands of realistic looking hair - let alone produce such a natural looking portrait and a full head of hair. Every image you create my friend only gets better and better in detail and as portraiture - ALWAYS recognizable as the individual you painted. Bravo, and as 'Kageboshi' reiterated so beautifully, "The most important opinion, the ONLY opinion you need worry about is your own."

bkelly

6:50PM | Sun, 13 April 2003

This as all of your work stands among the top. Creating from scratch and painting these type of portraits are an incredible task. Your work is always such a wonderful sight. It is very hard to paint an incredible image such as this. This is such a fresh look at portraiture by a true portraiture artist that paints. You have my vote, it should be in a category of its own.

copperboy1

7:10PM | Sun, 13 April 2003

Some really good work . Your pictures, drawn by hand are excellent. Your talents continue. Thanks.

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che18530

6:15AM | Mon, 14 April 2003

Well...Shadow...I have no idea what the comments were, so. I'll stick to this image. As you know, Buffy is one of my favorite shows and you have done an extraordinary job with Faith. The portrait is flawless as far as I can tell. That cock of her head is so "her"...she has the same look in the movie she is in called "Bring It On". I think your facial and skin coloring is amazing...texture is smooth and wonderful work on the dimples and around her eyes. And your work with her hair is the best I've seen you do...of course, I could never even approach what you can do on a digital tablet from skratch...sometimes I think people don't really know how difficult it is to achieve this kind of realism in the digital world. I know I've tried and I am not a quitter, but this is something that continues to allude me. Your work on lighting is above reproach! I'm glad you took what you could from the previous comments to improve this beautiful image of Faith...in the end, that's what we all try to do. Excellent work my friend!

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