Originally as my exercise in Rebecca Kimmels Open Figure Drawing Workshop (12), I ended up spending quite a lot of time and effort on this piece and really hope that I've done Mr. Bougeureau some justice
It didn't turn out nearly as finished as I would have liked, I never actually got around to working on textures or overall feel to the image, but after 70 - 80 hours on this piece in quite a short time I really did have to take a lot of my friends advice and "just leave it alone now!"
I'd just like to give extra hugs to Becca and Peter for their outstanding patience and encouragement towards me ^^ you guys are great, also to everyone on the OFDW12 thread and CGS WIP thread who helped me.
I'll post a quick step by step process when this thread gets published