The theme for this piece was a portrait...and though it's not quite a classic portrait, I was inspired after seeing the Dark Knight and Ledger's brilliant re-defining of the Joker. I used one of the posters available from the Dark Knight site as reference and painted the initial piece in Painter before taking it to Photoshop and adding shadows, highlights and effects over the card (which I found on Google images) to make it look more painterly. I wasn't trying to 100% replicate the poster but taking it into my own style, which I wanted to keep loose and sketchy, giving the image a more edgy look, reminiscent of the Star Wars image I painted. Took around 3-4 hrs, start to finish.
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