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Exquisiteby *MelissaFindley

Digital Art / Drawings / Portraits

Something a little different from me.

Here's the story:
Pixelbrush.net's latest event is "Contrast" with the challenge to do a piece entirely in black and white, with no grayscale or soft gradients except for what you can create with cross hatching or whatever.

Two days ago, I was flipping through some of my husband's old family photos and putting them in photo albums. When his mother was young she traveled a great deal. There are handfuls of photos she took all over the US and some from when she lived in Japan. Sometime during the 1950's she visited Korea, and took this photo: [link]

Sadly, his mother passed away several years before I met John. I'd love to ask her who those two little girls were. It's strange to think that now they'd be in their sixties.

They looked so pretty sitting there in their hanboks (thanks, Meredith for the information!) and the detail was so exquisite that I asked John if he would mind me using the photo for a drawing. Here's the result. It took about two days, working off and on. I used Corel Painter's "Liquid Ink" brushes to draw it.

For in progress and closeups, check out my thread over at Pixelbrush: [link]

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!tndaman Jan 19, 2009

This is beautiful

!infodigiusa Mar 14, 2008

Nice Job with the kimonos!!

~ninano4004 Jan 31, 2008

Lovely girls!

I'm just amazed by the details you put on the picture!

~Phuul Jan 22, 2008

Outstanding, just phenomenal. I would say it's up there in one of your best works ever.

*SparrowsFlame Jan 16, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow!! This is very different, but wonderful! I love the detail on their clothes. And you did a good job with their clothes. Great piece!

~MercuryFox22 Jan 9, 2008

That's beautiful. I'm amazed at the amount of detail you were able to put into their patterned clothes. Very pretty.

Working in strictly black and white is always interesting. The end result has such a different feel from color or even grayscale. I think this experiment was a success.

~ezranay Jan 8, 2008 Interface Designer

Gorgeous! I'm so impressed. Definitely glad I started watching you.

*keight Jan 8, 2008

This is lovely. When I saw it I kept thinking of all the photos dad took while he was in Korea and Japan in the 1950's.

~quickreaver Jan 8, 2008 Professional General Artist

Gonna comment further here instead of PB, just because I'm here and not there!

I'm not sure I dig the big back trees; they seem a little heavy for the delicacy of the girls. Oooh! You know what I can see, instead? Pale, distant mountains, as though they're sitting in a field on a sunny day. Like this: [link] But you know I adore this anyway....

*MelissaFindley Jan 8, 2008 Professional General Artist

I thought of that... the problem was, with the black and white, mountains would have either a.) been lost behind them as vague black shapes or b.) If I hadn't done them as solid black sillohetes, might have gotten confused with their dresses. I wanted most of the detail focus in the foreground. The tree, I feel, balances out the lights in the foreground and gives the background a little interest.

But that's me, though.

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