The Ascent

EDITED : watermark added, print updated (without watermark of course). Slightly more saturated and vivid.

Dedicated to and

Hello everybody!

Due to the fact that I've had some kind of an artist block, I had not updated my gallery for long. The only thing I've been able to do lately is to finish this painting. It had been commissionned by ImagineFX, the workshop can be seen in ImagineFX issue 26 (december issue)

This is quite different from the published version since I have had time to refine it (I had to meet a deadline then, and my old monitor died during the painting process, so I had no choice but to submit a "not-so-refined" painting. Anyway, all the techniques were explained and detailed, I used the same ones to finish it ), you can see the magazine version here : [link]

It's about seasons (winter/spring), life and death.... I suck at explaining what I mean so I prefer avoiding saying too much stupid things

Details here (not 100% size, original size is bigger) : [link]


Photoshop CS3
50 hours approximately
Wacom intuos 3A4
No reference (though he looks EXACTLY like my ex-boyfriend. I am pretty happy with the likeness... I challenged myself painting him from memory. Nice exercise by the way!)

Image size : 8268px x 6248px, 300dpi


I hope you'll like it! Crits and comments are very welcome, though I must apologize right now.... I'm so busy that I think I won't be able to reply to most of them But I really appreciate feedback, and you can be sure I'm reading them all! It's just that I don't have time to reply :/