Ruri Hoshino - Commission

AWARD

 3rd place at

e2046

Winter Contest 2007.

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Ruri Hoshino hit again here at Midnight-Partners. I was very very pleased when the same American client that had commissioned me the first Ruri Hoshino (Miko) call me again with yet another interesting challenge for another Ruri Hoshino. This time besides the high painting standards he usually expect from me he also wanted me to turn this Ruri dressed in a Yukata (a summer kimono) into a full kimono dressed Ruri. Besides this great modeling challenge he also requested that the design which decorated the kimono and which was also engraved in the resin be totally canceled so as to paint his own design. Needless to say this was going to be a great challenge. After countless e-mails and hours of study on kimonos in which we decide on every aspect of the conversion and the painting here you can see the result.

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