ROCKETBOX

By WEN-XI CHEN

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INTRODUCTION

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This picture all started some time ago, back in 2005, when I ran a “doodle” thread on my web blog where I offered to paint caricatures of my online friends. One of them, Ashley Ann, provided the most beautiful reference photographs of herself by the talented photographer William “ZAIDEN” Chrysler, and I was so taken by them that I set out to paint her in full…

The “doodle” I did for her can be seen in Fig.01.

I have always been fascinated by the “sweet, yet scary” feel, and I believe that this image captures ...

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