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Charlie-Bowater β ImagineFX Issue 114 Cover Sketches
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The sketches for my recent cover and workshop for ImagineFX 114.Photoshop CS6 & Intuos 5Β
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i mean it when i say this that whenever i see a piece of yours it's breathtaking and i want to cry because it's so beautiful.Β
#goals Β
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charlie bowater: *calls totally effing rad portraits that are beyond my skill level "sketches"*
Me: *laughs and then smashes own face through desk*Β
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i feel you mate ;A;
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awesome! Hey, did you use any reference or you just did it from your imagination? Anyway, your paintings are awesome. Very inspiring.
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I LOVE seeing the sketch work before the painting. I hope you have more of this in your gallery!Β
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Their expressions are so intense! I keep switching between them and making what feels like actual eye contact. I love this!
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Love how you were really careful in making their facial structures very different. They are similar, but the differences are so subtly apart from each other. That takes a lot of attention to detail.
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I saw you in my most recent copy of ImagineFX! i saw this on DA and was like, 'I swear I've seen this before' and I have to say I loved your tutorial. Has anyone ever told you that the cover picture looks a little like Megan Fox, or did you use her picture for reference?
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nicely done,
Faces looks notably the same tho. Very similar features. Especially lips, eyes and overall face proportions ...and jaws. I'm dealing with this problem. Drawing four girls in a row, each should be different and somehow special if possible. But they are somehow alike no mater how hard I try. Slowly I learned the personal taste, is the great enemy
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they follow the golden ratio of beauty 
It's just because it's somehow become a rule that every female in the fantasy genre has to look like a Victoria's Secret model, I don't really like that fact either. It rather calls for a lack of induviduality.
Also, keep in mind it's for the cover of a magazine, so it's a bit more commercially orientated than Charlie's other images, which are all very unique and unconventionally beautiful.
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maybe it become a rule because artists did not ache enough for individuality too often. Or because they could not afford it. And what is individuality? I can relate to understanding it as a thing that makes someone love, and other one hate. And industry wants everyone be like... oh its good.Β But eh, this is again a big topic with no answer. Art versus industry. Individuality versus the power ofΒ masses.
Also fact is every artist tends to make the faces look a lot alike when drawing from mind. For example, does one specific type of eyebrows really fall under the rule of golden ratio?
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absolutely gorgeous, you've been my favourite artist for a loong time!Β
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Just read the article, was very informative.
You got an obsession with freckles, donΒ΄t you?
Keep your awesome work up
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I love checking out your sketches and doodles Charlie! I'm diggin' the girl with the cropped hair
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This is beautiful and the shading is fantastic. You are really great with shadows and faces.
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I love it, I wish I were better at portraits.
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They're all so beautiful! You never cease to amaze me! I have to say the last one is probably my favourite although I really love all of them. I think her expression in the last one is really quite haunting. Breathtakingly beautiful stuff!
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I detect a slight Ian Mccaig essence in these.... or maybe itsΒ just my eyes playing tricks on me
either way wonderful sketches!
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I'm very excited for my issue to arrive. Β I always scan the mag for stuff by you.
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wow, just wow. Your talent with faces is just breath taking.
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Woulda liked the third too. The hair flow is nice
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they are incredible!! I love the front portraits 
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They look like four sisters from a fantasy series I'd like to read.
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Would have chosen the third one, but beside of this, the real cover is insanely beautiful
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I reaaally like the second face !Β Β hypnotizingβ¦Β Β
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They're all very good, but I especially like 1, 3 and 4.Β
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