Wow! That's really nice! This photo was a real person's photo before? I can't even tell, looks like you painted her yourself! Well done :>

Hey! Yeah, I think the issue between the shadows and lighting is that the background doesn't have as much contrast as the figures in the foreground. IE, the darks on the girl aren't as dark as the darks of the background. A little adjustment should do the trick. Other than that, it's a really neat piece. And kinda amusing: we have two black cats here that we had to keep shooing off out of the pic at the time. Best of luck in the contest!

I think it's your best work. There are a couple of things you should work on, as you mentioned, like the lightning. Since the room has such a dark atmosphere, it will take over most of your model's body, except the back, because it's facing the light source. The cats could also be a little darker. I don't know if it's my screen (damn it!), but the "black" of the cat doesn't look black, but like a purple-ish grey.
It's quite a complicated image. Working with black is difficult because you have to rescue just some details that are shown by the light. Sometimes you have to sacrifice things for it to look good. It's frustrating yeah. Just try to fix the lightning and the contrast. I love the composition, the concept and the skin of the model wich is kind of porcelain-like. So smooth and bright. And dear God, cropping out that window!

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But thank you. I had a hell of a time trying to paint the shadows on the model.

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Thanks a lot ^^

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Thank you. I still need to work quite a lot with it.

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Very nice manip!
Glad you could make use of my stock.

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looks good like the interplay between the top cat and the woman both turned from each other it lookd good on my monitor good luck with the contest - cubstock

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