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Alternate title: Shameless Boobery. ^^;

I was searching for something new to do, so I decided that I would try referencing some stock via eye only (y'know, no paintovers or hiding/showing a ref on a layer above for direct reference....basically Dirty Cheating...) to practice seeing shapes and colours. I used the stock linked to below as reference for the body and hair, and a photo off of gettyimages as a very rough ref for the face (it ended up quite different; I can't find it at the moment anyways.)

Painting two things with different light sources in the reference was a challenge and took the majority of the time with this. I get carried away too often so I embellished it a little and ended up with this...I guess it somewhat resembled a classical styled portrait without the (totally) skewed facial features/anatomy, and has a slight oil paint look I hope. Hence the poor latin title.

This is my first step towards trying random new things; although this isn't too different from my usual I guess, or very high-quality overall. Expect something very new and different soon, I promise. XD Anyways, back to commissioned stuff. I might want to make some money sometime soon. >_>

Detail shot below. Done in Painter 9, in a few hours over the past week.

EDIT: I tweaked the blue colour balance, and fixed the eye size.