16th century aesthetic

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Another illustration inspired by those 19th century genre-painters. I'm fascinated by how well they were able to capture materials, especially fabrics, and I wanted to try something similar with this. Once again I made a 3D scene as a base. For the background and furniture I painted over the 3D render. The characters were painted from scratch but I used my 3D models as reference. The room design was based on a number of different 16th century castles and I put a lot of effort into making all…

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.:. Unknown painter, Anne Boleyn (detail) 16th century