Every now and then I realise just how exceptionally talented other artists are.  Now before anyone thinks I’m comparing myself to some of the greats of western art I’m not.   So I’m working on the Galadriel digital painting and the costume is incredibly intricate and I really am debating whether to replicate such detail – as I’m mulling this over my mind wonders to the work of Hans Holbein the younger and Jan Van Eyck.   Of course it is probable that neither man actually painted all the details but someone did and whom ever that was they were incredible crafts man. (I’ve just reread this and there are far too many adjectives but I don’t care.)