Exploring the Conté tools to do a portrait of this female actress ( Maggie Q ) from Mission impossible.

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In this piece we started with a regular photograph (far left) in photoshop. Retouching blemishes, blurring skin, darkening and lightening hot spots (middle).
Next we take the touched up photo to painter and start cloning, i used oil cloners mostly, i left a brush stroke look on the outside to eliminate the background distractions. I wasn’t totally satisfied with some details so i took the final painter image back into photoshop, and put the (middle shot) as a layer on top. I masked in certain areas around the mouth, eyes and nose i wanted to be photographic crisp. I finished off by cleaning the reflections on the eyes.

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Trying to get back into corel painter this year, I thoroughly enjoyed the lessons i got from my design courses years ago. I came across a website that inspired me to try what they were doing. LINK. Yes i know its photoshop based, but idea is the same. I will have to try photoshop next.
For the final details i imported the apple to photoshop to clean up the shadows,  was having a hard time getting it smooth and feathered.

The photograph was just for records sake, as you can see the angle and lighting are off. I painted from still life.

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This was one of my first portrait paintings done in Corel Painter, i was amazed at the power of the program.
I later added a tint in Photoshop for an advertisement project.

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