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Enug
11-06-2020, 02:53 AM
Just a pigeon. Airbrush and custom brush.

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markw
11-06-2020, 03:21 AM
Excellent June! And some nice feathery textures:cool:
I’d be very satisfied with painting something that good myself!

D Akey
11-06-2020, 04:16 AM
I second what Mark said.

Very clear. What makes it for me though is the continuation of the feather pattern very faintly in the air, off the body. It just brings a level of surprise and interest, and it creates a relation subtly beyond the usual color field treatment around a portrait.

If I were waxing poetic, I would consider that rhythmic echo like a visual representation of the cooing sound they make -- like subtle waves of pigeon-ness in the air, as if the bird is delivering a soliloquy about the utter bliss of perching on a statue whilst doing Shakespeare in the Park.

Enug
11-06-2020, 02:18 PM
Thank you so much gentlemen for the kind words.

Mark, the feathers were tricky spent a lot of time on them.

DA the effect you noticed was produced by spraying colour on the background layer and going over it with the Frosted Spots knife preset. I find I use that preset quite often.