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		<title>Barmaid Painting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 21:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Print available over at deviantART. With this painting I used stock photography by Cathleen Tarawhiti as my starting point and color reference. The finished file consists of three layers of paint (rough underpainting, medium detail and a touch-up layer), and two layers of pencil (one shading, one sketch) also a couple effects layers and a [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=950" rel="attachment wp-att-950"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-950" title="barmaid_1600" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/barmaid_1600-399x600.jpg" alt="" width="399" height="600" /></a></p>
<p>*Print available over at <a href="http://kirkdunne.deviantart.com/#/d51fnt2" target="_blank"><strong>deviantART</strong></a>.</p>
<p>With this painting I used stock photography by <a href="http://cathleentarawhiti.deviantart.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Cathleen Tarawhiti</strong></a> as my starting point and color reference.</p>
<p>The finished file consists of three layers of paint (rough underpainting, medium detail and a touch-up layer), and two<br />
layers of pencil (one shading, one sketch) also a couple effects layers and a ridiculous amount of adjustment layers.</p>
<p>The final painting was done in Photoshop CS6 at 3,600 x 5,400 in 16-bit with the ProPhoto RGB gamut, so in comparison<br />
with these jpg&#8217;s, the real color count is actually far higher and more intense. (and a pain to convert back for the web)</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Big</span> thanks to <a href="http://cathleentarawhiti.deviantart.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Cathleen</strong></a> for her beautiful stock collection and to the wonderful model, Mahia Keepa-Hale!</p>
<p>Here is a desktop wallpaper version (2560&#215;1600). You can catch more detail in this crop, click through to get the full sized image;</p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=951" rel="attachment wp-att-951"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-951" title="barmaid_25x16" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/barmaid_25x16-600x375.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>Here is a 1:1 crop from the full sized original;</p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=952" rel="attachment wp-att-952"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-952" title="barmaid_100a" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/barmaid_100a.jpg" alt="" width="950" height="950" /></a></p>
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		<title>Leeloo from &#8220;The Fifth Element&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 03:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Painting of Leeloo from the movie &#8220;The Fifth Element&#8221; as played by Milla Jovovich. Click through the first image to get to the wallpaper sized 2560 x 1078 image. This is a second version of my Leeloo painting and I had actually finished it some time ago but have just been forgetting to upload. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Painting of Leeloo from the movie &#8220;The Fifth Element&#8221; as played by Milla Jovovich.</p>
<p>Click through the first image to get to the wallpaper sized 2560 x 1078 image.</p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=934" rel="attachment wp-att-934"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-934" title="leeloo_2560" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/leeloo_2560-600x252.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="252" /></a></p>
<p>This is a second version of my Leeloo painting and I had actually finished it some time ago but have just been forgetting to upload.<br />
The first version I had put up on my Facebook and you can see that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150761721099127&amp;set=a.189191014126.128449.749454126&amp;type=3" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>here</strong></span></a> if ya want.</p>
<p>Version two here was made because I was generally not 100% happy with the overall look of the first and<br />
I had additionally wanted to further the realism of the canvas with some new techniques I had developed.</p>
<p>Both versions were painted in Photoshop CS5 64-bit with 16-bit color.<br />
v1 = 2,552 x 1,065<br />
v2 = 5,700 x 2,400</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a half sized detail from the original;</p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=945" rel="attachment wp-att-945"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-945" title="leeloo_50percent" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/leeloo_50percent.jpg" alt="" width="950" height="950" /></a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>And, here&#8217;s a full sized piece from the original;</p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=946" rel="attachment wp-att-946"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-946" title="leeloo_100percent" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/leeloo_100percent.jpg" alt="" width="950" height="950" /></a></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Community&#8221; &#8211; Chang Rising Poster #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Community” RETURNS – March 15th – 8:00pm – NBC Community Returns TODAY, so be ready with my next Chang Rising Poster! This one may be half size but still looks Chang-tastic printed out full sized at 24 x 36! Glorious &#8220;Manilla&#8221; poster: (4.5Mb, jpg) (3,600×5,400)– Download Here! Again; All rights reserved to: NBC, Sony Pictures [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">“Community” RETURNS – March 15th – 8:00pm – NBC</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">Community Returns TODAY, so be ready with my next Chang Rising Poster!</p>
<p>This one may be half size but still looks Chang-tastic printed out full sized at 24 x 36!</p>
<p>Glorious &#8220;Manilla&#8221; poster: (4.5Mb, jpg) (3,600×5,400)– <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/files/chang_full_02.jpg" target="_blank">Download Here!</a></strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=911" rel="attachment wp-att-911"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-911" title="Chang Rising - Manilla" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/chang_full_02_preview.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="600" /></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Again</span>;<br />
All rights reserved to: NBC, Sony Pictures Television, Universal Media Studios, Russo Brothers,<br />
Harmonius Claptrap, Krasnoff Foster Productions, the eternaly Chan-tastic Ken Jeong and<br />
anyone else at NBC that will promise to never even THINK about cancelling &#8220;Community&#8221;!</p>
<p><strong>Now pardon me while I stare at my blackened HDTV for the next 12 hours until COMMUNITY COMES ON.</strong></p>
<p>Kirk<br />
<a href="mailto:kirk@kirkdunne.com" target="_blank">kirk@kirkdunne.com</a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/KirkDunne" target="_blank">Twitter: <s>@</s>KirkDunne</a></p>
<p>#changrises !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Community&#8221; &#8211; Arise, Chang Army!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Chang We Trust *NOTICE &#8211; If I did happen to guess WRONG at what is at the bottom of this poster, I WILL be adding a corrected version. Chang Poster available in; Wallpaper sized: (104kb) (2560&#215;1600) &#8211; Download Here!  -  Also, a 16:9 ratio wallpaper: (62kb) (1920&#215;1080) &#8211; Download Here! Gloriously full-sized poster: (714kb) [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>In Chang We Trust</strong></span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffff00;"><strong>*NOTICE &#8211; If I did happen to guess WRONG at what is at the bottom of this poster, I WILL be adding a corrected version.</strong></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><br />
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<p>Chang Poster available in;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Wallpaper sized</span>: (104kb) (2560&#215;1600) &#8211; <a href="http://kirkdunne.com/files/chang_wall_01.png" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Download Here!</span></strong></span></a>  -  Also, a 16:9 ratio wallpaper: (62kb) (1920&#215;1080) &#8211; <span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/files/chang_wall_02.png" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Download Here!</span></strong></span></a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=830" rel="attachment wp-att-830"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-830" title="chang_wall_01_preview" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/chang_wall_01_preview.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="375" /></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Gloriously full-sized poster</span>: (714kb) (7,200&#215;10,800, which is 24&#8243;x36&#8243;) &#8211; <a href="http://kirkdunne.com/files/chang_full_01.png" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;"><strong>Download Here!</strong></span></a><br />
This one is so Chan-tasticly huge it probably won&#8217;t load into most browser windows.<br />
I suggest right-clicking the link and choosing &#8220;Save Link As&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=831" rel="attachment wp-att-831"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-831" title="chang_full_01_preview" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/chang_full_01_preview.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="600" /></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Info</span>;<br />
Based upon the Chan-tastic Chan poster being unfurled in the &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbe12osSrH8" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Community Returns!</span></a>&#8221; trailer.<br />
Watch the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbe12osSrH8" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;"><strong>here</strong></span></a>, Chang poster at the 0:30 second mark)<br />
<strong>Obviously, I&#8217;m just guessing at what&#8217;s actually at the bottom of that poster.</strong><br />
Come March 15th, the full Chang shall be revealed!</p>
<p>All images are in png format, created in Photoshop CS5.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">All rights reserved to</span>: NBC, Sony Pictures Television, Universal Media Studios, Russo Brothers,<br />
Harmonius Claptrap, Krasnoff Foster Productions, the eternaly Chan-tastic Ken Jeong and<br />
anyone else that would like to dogpile in on some of this copyright action.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;To know your Chang, you must become your Chang.&#8221;</strong><br />
<strong> &#8211; The Art of Chang</strong></p>
<p>Kirk<br />
<a href="mailto:kirk@kirkdunne.com" target="_blank">kirk@kirkdunne.com<strong></strong></a></p>
<p><del>                                                                                                                                                                      </del></p>
<p>*This page is in fandom spirit of the AMAZING NBC comedy Television show &#8220;<a href="http://www.nbc.com/community/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Community</strong></span></a>&#8220;.<br />
If you&#8217;ve never seen it, do so NOW and level up your coolness by a roll of at least +10.</p>
<p>*So, realize this is all in fun and therefore I am not a communist.<br />
(Sorry commies)</p>
<p>*I am also not a rabid celebrity stalker of Ken Jeong.<br />
(Sorry Ken, you <span style="text-decoration: underline;">are</span> awesome&#8230;but at this moment in my life, you’re just not &#8220;go to jail&#8221; awesome&#8230;as I am still paying off my plasma flatscreen)</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Left Turn&#8221; &#8211; The Road Poster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based upon Director Mauricio Marin&#8217;s idea of having the lines of the road fading outward from the expressionistic facial lines of Danny Trejo (Samuel Lopez) this is the first in a series of posters for the film &#8220;Left Turn&#8221;. I finished this piece quickly, so what you see here will most likely be the first [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Based upon Director Mauricio Marin&#8217;s idea of having the lines of the road fading outward from the expressionistic<br />
facial lines of Danny Trejo (Samuel Lopez) this is the first in a series of posters for the film &#8220;Left Turn&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=804" rel="attachment wp-att-804"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-804" title="LT_Poster_01_a_1350" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LT_Poster_01_a_1350-400x600.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="600" /></a></p>
<p>I finished this piece quickly, so what you see here will most likely be the first version with a more refined second<br />
version to come as I feel this could be fleshed out much more faithfully to Mauricio&#8217;s original idea.</p>
<p>But, for now v2 will wait as more and different art is to come for &#8220;Left Turn&#8221;.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a 1:1 detail, click through to see its full size;</p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=805" rel="attachment wp-att-805"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-805" title="LT_Poster_01_a_Detail_01" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LT_Poster_01_a_Detail_01-600x600.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="600" /></a></p>
<p>Technical Info;<br />
Painted in Photoshop CS5 in around 50 hours.</p>
<p>Because of how quickly I needed to completed this, it is only half sized at 12&#8243; x 18&#8243;, 300dpi.<br />
(v2 will be the standard 24&#8243; x 36&#8243;)</p>
<p>For the initial sketching and layout, I used VFX Workshops Pencil Brush Pack, available <a href="http://vfxworkshops.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>here</strong></span></a>.</p>
<p>For painting, I used mainly the default CS5 Mixer brushes. I have some custom<br />
Mixer brushes but they aren&#8217;t very far away from the default setup&#8217;s at all.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2273363" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>&#8220;Left Turn&#8221; at IMDb.</strong></span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.dreamsfilmstudios.com" target="_blank">Dream Film Studios</a></strong></span></p>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.&#8221; - George Carlin Happy Halloween everybody!! Painted in Photoshop CS5. Keep clicking on image to see full size.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.&#8221;<br />
- George Carlin</p>
<p><a href="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/?attachment_id=768" rel="attachment wp-att-768"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-768" title="happy_halloween_2011" src="http://kirkdunne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/happy_halloween_2011-486x600.jpg" alt="" width="486" height="600" /></a></p>
<p>Happy Halloween everybody!!</p>
<p>Painted in Photoshop CS5. Keep clicking on image to see full size.</p>
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		<title>Cheshire Bound</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><em>&#8220;The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>I had downloaded and got inspired  by the “Alice In Wonderland” free epub book for pc Kindle, available from the Project Gutenberg site <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
(they provide many formats and also carry a lot of other public domain books).</p>
<p>Painted in Photoshop CS5, on five layers in around 20 hours total.</p>
<p>Click the image to grab the full sized version.</p>
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