Photomanipulations and paint overs are not easy to do, I'm not trying to undermine these artists, but to actually go and lie about your working methods, whether by claiming it's all painted by hand or to even go and make up a false set of WIP images just leaves a bad taste and gives digital realism art a bad name...
This picture is a photomanipulation, the photo I worked from is [link]
It took about 45 minutes.
(edit: I'm not interested in another debate about our dear Enayla, just a universal message for tolerance and honesty )
This is really beautiful work! I do all my photomanipulations with paint-overs in order to enhance colors, change textures, soften or correct. Your work is amazing!
She is beautiful. May I ask you how best to search for close up images like this, but to find it in a search is proving almost impossiable. I even joined a group but still cant find ones this good. Any help you could give would be so helpful. Thank you. Piper
I just browsed through the stock artist gallery yesterday, now i found your picture, and my opinion is to: you did in this 45 minutes really good work! Own my respect for it!