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I guess I reached my limits in terms of the oh-so-blah classical portrait. But I love doing them, it's like my second nature and the best way of relaxing for me. And it's slowly becoming a tradition of mine - one pretty actor per year (wondering who will it be next time...). I just miss the opportunity to show the adorable green spot in his left eye q:

I started it as a try on a few tutorials about the underpainting technique in Painter, but ended up doing it my way anyway. Used plenty of various brushes, a crappy reference photo for cloning and correcting errors, a texture from *hibbary , and a few photos and paintings for the colour palette (completing the colour palette before you start painting really helps a lot).

Hope you will like it


Tutorial based on it: [link]

Aaahhh, for people who seem slightly confused - Jesse Spencer is an Australian actor and musician, recently best known as Dr. Robert Chase from the brilliant medical drama "House M.D.".