First painting done on my birthday gift from my sweetheart Syn. We looked up monitors to replace my Dell that I have had since 2015 (I think). It was having connectivity issues after all of this time, and so I relented.

It is an Asus ProArt Display PA278CV - 27in, 2k resolution. Precalibrated and Calman verified with a chart included in the box on its veracity. Trouble is finding the right settings to use in PS to get the image to look as intended! Painted this in AdobeRGB, and then saved as an SRGB and it looks the closest to the original in other programs. I truly hate colour for how infinitesimally subtle it can be and how subjective it is. Stupid electronic meat influencing how we see colour!

In any case, I do like how this turned out, and Azure likes it too, so I am happy!

Media: Photoshop CS6
Time: ~5 hours

Character ©  azuremckay
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