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"You're a shooting star I see
A vision of ecstasy
(...) So shine bright tonight, you and I
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky..."("DIAMONDS", by Rihanna)s§s
Since I'm not an easily influenced person </sarcasm> I couldn't resist the inspiration of painting Rihanna when I saw
this BRILLIANT mashup of "Diamonds" x "Faster" by Within Temptation - I kinda liked "Diamonds" before, but this was just so well done and also Rihanna is such a beautiful lady, I just couldn't stop myself

Though she's not really my cup of tea regarding music, I do like a lot some of her songs, such as "Disturbia" and "Russian Roulette"...
About the painting itself, well, after I was ass-kicked by both Anneke van Giersbergen and Eva Green, I found out Rihanna's face was increadibly easy to paint, I took like the total of 4h and a half or so, and I had a lot of fun painting her!

Enjoy!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> REFERENCE IMAGE:[link]Paint Tool SAI
Photoshop CS4
Wacom Bamboo PEN
About 4h30m
ART (c) ME, ~CelticBotan, do not use, alter or copy
RIHANNA (c) herself