At first glance, I didn't think this was painted by you. Then, I looked at the sign on name and sure enough its you. I really like this portrait. She seems to have an inquisitive look on her face. I need to practice more to attain this level of expertise. Your paintings look more and more naturally painterly and less and less digital. That's a good thing. I'd like to see more female portraits from you. Thank you for posting this.

i like the light and shadows on the nose.i'm beginning to think i should stop going into such a detail on my drawings, seems like less is more.
and i agree, more female portraits please :)

Inspiring work Munin

very nice,did u used photo or nature for ref?)

good job with the shadows

sweet paint! but I still don't understand what you did with the canvas/image/DS.. I'm confused by your playback and explanation :( :P

Thanks a lot, folks. I'll certainly be doing more portraits, now I've found a work-around. Not sure about uploading them though. Don't want to piss Jetboy off! :) @EvilSimon: Based on a photo. @Naughty: Start a new canvas and drop a few pure white strokes down. Save it and then open in an image editor/viewer (I used Irfan). Rotate the canvas/.png 90 degrees and re-save it. Now you can paint portrait format in colours using the more intuitive landscape interface. If you flip the canvas in Colors! and continue painting your strokes will be skewed during playback as the program thinks you're still painting in landscape. When done, rotate the .png back to it's original angle on your PC and save again. Sorted.

I love that eye!

@Munin: What work around are you referring to? I viewed your playback on my computer and was surprised that the .drw file knew what orientation to fit the image into the view window. Wait, I think I know what you did. I'll try it and see if it works. :)

wow, that is amazing! you never cease to impress me!

Wow:)****