Beautiful Girl in Traditional Sundanese Dance

 

Indonesia is a country with a very rich cultural diversity. The culture that exists in the archipelago includes traditional and modern cultures which are very interesting to learn. Of the many traditional cultures, dance is one of the noble heritage that we must protect.

Each region in Indonesia has a unique dance art. One of them is the peacock dance, a beautiful dance from West Java. This dance is a new kind of creation inspired by the life of a peacock. This is shown in various dancer movements imitating the behavior of peacocks.

The peacock dance was introduced to the art scene more widely by a Sundanese artist named Raden Tjetjep Soemantri. Peacock dance is a modern or contemporary dance, where every movement in this dance is created freely with its own creations.

However, because of the beauty of the movement, this dance is able to become the pride of the people of West Java and Indonesia at large. In this article, I will present a digital painting of a beautiful girl using a watercolor effect technique through photoshop. The original image can find here. I create the above image using methods as follows :

1. Using multi-layer + layer mask (background, girl model, wildflower)
2. For the background using 2 layers, the blending mode used is normal mode (opacity 100%) + soft light (opacity about 67%)
3. For the model girl using 2 layers, the blending mode used is normal mode (opacity 100%) + overlay (opacity about 71%)
4. To create a watercolor painting effect, each image uses the filter - noise - greyCstoration, after that use the filter - artistic - watercolor
5. Use the watercolor effect brush tools for layer masks
6. Then sharpen each image using the filter - sharpen - smart sharpen
7. To create a painting effect on canvas using filter - filter gallery - texture- texturizer (canvas)
8. Lighting effects using brightness and contrast (with contrast 9, and brightness 2)
9. Color effects using vibrance (with vibrance 0, and saturation -20)
10. Image size used 1380 px; 1380 px, resolution 300 ppi

Hopefully, by reading the article and seeing the digital paintings, you will be interested in visiting Indonesia