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EDIT: Uploaded a better quality image.

24x36 Acrylic on canvas.
Spent about 4 days painting this.
Picture taken on crappy camera.
Used a sketch drawn from life as reference and added a few things from my head.
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*Calick Feb 10, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Awesome! You really know how to use colors!
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~koeb Feb 10, 2011
Thanks! Being a woman gives me an advantage in that regard XD
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*Calick Feb 11, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
LOL really?
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~koeb Feb 11, 2011
Yeah, women, in general, have better color perception than men. Also, men are more likely to be color blind. That's why you have that stereotype of a woman talking about three different shades of red and to a man they all look the same.
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*Calick Feb 13, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Wow... very interesting.
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~koeb Feb 13, 2011
I remember in color theory class there was a guy who was partially color blind. As you can imagine, he didn't do so well.
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~pixelFIRE Feb 8, 2011
So impressive. :clap:

Colours are very life-like and you did a great job with the rock textures. Cave lighting appropriately deviates from realism.

I can't critique the technique, since I have no knowledge whatsoever of traditional art beyond graphite. :) Which makes it ever better?
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~koeb Feb 8, 2011
Thank you very much. I've spent quite a bit of time drawing rocks in Hawaii, since there are so many interesting formations. This painting I used a sketch of a lava tube cave that had grown over with plants.

I suppose there is some awe for mystery, though traditional art isn't so hard. It's like any other medium, it requires a lot of practice.
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~pixelFIRE Feb 9, 2011
It's so much easier to cheat in digital. :D Perfect eraser, full-chroma-RGB colour selection, perspective, rotation and scale transforms, brushes, texture overlays, layering, opacity masks, smoothing algorithms, bezier curves, filter effects, etc etc etc.

I have real respect for anyone who can do ANYTHING in traditional.
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~koeb Feb 9, 2011
I do love all those things about digital. However, I think there are a lot of things that are actually easier about traditional--- it just takes more practice to get to that point. It requires a certain level of confidence to paint a background completely with paint before adding figures.
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