Masculine Back Study (2017)

March 2017

Done with photoshop and wacom intuos4
12 hours

I'm a student of Académie des Beaux-Arts de Montréal ( www.academ.ca/ ) and after a long talk with my art teacher about my goals and all, we both agree to try digital art (in a very traditional technique school)
So, it's been a VERY long time since I painted digitally (last time was for the motocycle ( demielune.deviantart.com/art/L… ) in 2005) and I'm recently out of a very long/important "art blocage". Feeling very rusty.

So, like if I didn't marathon for a while, here, I started a simple exercice. To make my life easy for a first personal assignment, I went with the infamous and sacrilegious technique of tracing the first draw lines and first color strokes directly above the reference stock photo ( mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/a… ).
Shame on me, but no pressure!
To goal is to get the hand on things.
Anyhow, it didn't take long that I couldn't see the picture under anyway, so I had to work side by side with the reference.

I gotta say, right when I got the back and the hair done ( see WIP here: demielune.deviantart.com/art/W… ) I kinda fell down my chair. These classes DID PAID OFF!! @_@ 
I'm really pleased with myself!