Just how far do you make a digital painting real? Setting aside the question of what exactly real is just how do you approach such matters? Do you hint or go for full photo realism? What about plagiarism ? My digital works are all inspired by images I’ve found and want to paint but making them too close to the original means you are just copying. But is that real?

I have no answers to the main question but this painting helping me to start to get a feel for the way I want to start to answer the question.

Simon Marchini
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