'Photoshop and Painter X'

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For this image, I was inspired by the book named One Thousand and One Nights. It is often known in English as "Arabian Nights". Genies and the image of Scheherazade amazed my imagination. I wanted to get closer to the east theme and for this purpose I went to look at belly dancing in the night club. When I returned, I picked up a pencil and drew one of the beautiful dancing women from my memory. I realized then that I didn’t just want to draw a dancer and so decided to make her a female genie instead.

This sketch was in my desk for about a year. And then one day I just felt it was time to develop the Dancing Genie (Fig.01).

I often make the pencil sketches when I worked. Sometimes I do it from nature and sometimes from my head. I think that it's very important. It helps me to generate ideas and allows me to mark those parts of the picture that I drew well. I never outline my pencil sketches in Photoshop or Painter. I scan them in and place them on the second monitor so I can be guided by them. I do this so lines of the sketch don’t limit me when I work with brushes (Fig.02).