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Old 04-07-2007, 12:59 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Marcus Lim
Hi Garth, you got that right.
I was actually proposing downplaying more than you usually do - and in fact, at one particular area of the painting, have a daring bold blur to give it that edginess contrast to the boy's soft demeanour.

This bold blur should be obvious but yet doesn't steal the fire away from the boy's expression. That's what i can add to your current new idea you have.
Thanks Marcus; great idea!

I have not actually reworked this drawing, but I played with a virtual selective blur in Photoshop: Motion Blur, horizontal, 88 pixels, and then applied the memory brush to restore the sharpness selectively. It looks interesting to me. Is this kind of what you meant?

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