Ophelia At the Window by bonestructure

2D • Historical • posted on Jul 16, 2003

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Pre-Raphaelite art done on the computer. Shakespeare's Ophelia. I've been working on this for over a year. It's painted in Photoshop, then heavily processed with over 150 layers. The original is about 4 times this size.

Comments (16)

darksecret1

9:55PM | Wed, 16 July 2003

beautifully done, i thought it was a photo at first. :)

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ijack999

9:59PM | Wed, 16 July 2003

Very beautiful! The work you put into this really shows.

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Moebius87

10:26PM | Wed, 16 July 2003

This is absolutely gorgeous work!

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rudaMajka

2:16AM | Thu, 17 July 2003

Wonderful artwork!!!

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gunsan

4:33AM | Thu, 17 July 2003

I bow for your endurance! Beautiful pose and a soft colorscale that harmonizes with her charisma.

disa

7:21AM | Thu, 17 July 2003

Good artwork!! It seems really a pre-raphaelite painting... but is a photo that seems an oil on canvas or an oil on canvas that seems a photo?

gallimel

7:36AM | Thu, 17 July 2003

really well done. and all your awesome efforts and time show theselves so purely shining!!!!!!! I am totally praising you. hat off :)

xHaruF

10:05AM | Thu, 17 July 2003

Very beautiful. Looks like a real photo with low resolution. And what a huge work! :))

Odious

1:44PM | Thu, 17 July 2003

sometimes an image is so well done that it is hard to believe the work that went into it because of the true realism... this is almost photographic and really well done... it is time consuming alone just processing some of these many layered photoshop files.. Well done :)

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bonestructure

2:08PM | Thu, 17 July 2003

The funny thing is, I still see every mistake in it. The little finger of her left hand isn't right, the right elboe is wrong, the light isn't quite right etc etc. I gave it that spotty look on purpose with a layer I treated as pointillistic because I wanted it to look like an aged painting. I did, however learn, that one of the secrets of preraphaelite work is a pastel underpainting. And one of the features of preraphaelite painting is realism. I just liked the image a little softer and gentler than most preraph images. The original is 1040 by 1387.

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Aeneas

3:05PM | Thu, 17 July 2003

Your image is very good, no doubt about that. But I would like to know where you read that Pre-Raphaelite painters used a pastel underpainting? This is most certainly not true. No painter will ever paint with oils on pastels., or it should be a contemporary one, trying to do different. ThePRB technique has survived, and has even been written down. There are also unfinished paintings proving its correctness. They first applied a layer of lead white to their primed canvas, and let it dry for a year. Then they added another thin layer of pure lead white and in this still tacky layer they painted in one time, finishing detail after detail. They never used a "pointillistic" technique. Alma-Tadema did in his water colours, but he is no PRB.

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bonestructure

3:49PM | Thu, 17 July 2003

Not a pastel underpainting with pastels, but pastel colors. And I didn't use the pointillism to duplicate Preraph, but to create an illusion of age. There's no real way to duplicate preraph in CG, but it's hard to argue with my results.

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4:26PM | Thu, 17 July 2003

This is really amazing work. I love that play, and your painting is----- stunning. So soft. The pose, the lighting, the wall and hair, her face and the cloth... the whole composition in outstanding! This is-- I just can't find words. A masterpiece.

compiler

6:41AM | Thu, 31 July 2003

Beautiful. Just incredibly beautiful !

ISSE

12:12AM | Sun, 28 March 2004

Supper work

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