Roberto Blake Digital Painting- Lady Snowflake

Lady Snowflake is probably my most solid “digital painting” work to date. The brush work took hours to get just right, but I was happy with the results from that effort. I’m going to be entering this in Photoshop Creative’s Forum Challenge, “Seasons”. It took a lot to get the right blend of painterly effects while keeping the sharp details in the face and hair as much as possible. I also wanted to create the illusion of motion or wind while using those elements to manipulate eye direction back to the central figure. Despite the winter theme of this image, I didn’t want the model to come off as frigid, or “cold”, there were subtle things I did in the retouch work to accomplish this.