Exquisite

Something a little different from me.

Here's the story:
Pixelbrush.net's latest event is "Contrast" with the challenge to do a piece entirely in black and white, with no grayscale or soft gradients except for what you can create with cross hatching or whatever.

Two days ago, I was flipping through some of my husband's old family photos and putting them in photo albums. When his mother was young she traveled a great deal. There are handfuls of photos she took all over the US and some from when she lived in Japan. Sometime during the 1950's she visited Korea, and took this photo: img.photobucket.com/albums/v51…

Sadly, his mother passed away several years before I met John. I'd love to ask her who those two little girls were. It's strange to think that now they'd be in their sixties.

They looked so pretty sitting there in their hanboks (thanks, Meredith for the information!) and the detail was so exquisite that I asked John if he would mind me using the photo for a drawing. Here's the result. It took about two days, working off and on. I used Corel Painter's "Liquid Ink" brushes to draw it.

For in progress and closeups, check out my thread over at Pixelbrush: www.pixelbrush.net/forum/viewt…