Photo study no.1

This is a digital painting practice exercise. I tried to copy a photo as closely as possible. Since I'm working with a traced line drawing, and I'm sampling colors from the original, it's really just a matter of time and patience to get this kind of result. It's not, in my opinion, a work of art, since it's a copy of someone else's photograph. (I had no idea who this was, but as soon as I posted it a fellow deviant informed me she's an actress name Ali Larter. I just found the image on a site that was offering huge files full of photos to download. Since I'm just doing this for practice, I don't feel too bad about it. However, if this is your photo and you want me to take it down, just let me know.)

I'll be posting close-ups in my Scraps folder.