It is real. I'm not an idiot. I spent 19 hours on it. Yes, I did use the reference, I can't do something like this from memory. If you want to hear something funny--- I ended up taking a ruler and tilting it to match her face on the photograph, then taping it to my monitor to get the percise angle of her face. Then I did the same for her eyes and lips and nose, ect, ect. It helps greatly. Just tape stuff to your screen for angles, it works great. On the hair, I had that picture sitting next to the one I was doing, carefully brushing in the percise areas of her hair. I wanted it as close as a photo as possible..

Another thing, if you look on the very right in the middle on the side, you can see a screw-up of mine.. *sigh* I accidently left the layer screwed up. There are layers for everything-- ears, lips, eyes, eyebrows, cheeks, forehead definitely *foreheads are a real pain considering the work to get them smooth as possible*, chin, etc. Also the hair below her right ear doesn't look too good to me. Need to fix that..

My next dev will probably be this picture of a vampire in a dungeon with the omega symbol painted in blood on a wall behind her. I love darkness..

`Wildi