I first discovered Chen Shu Fen when I was browsing the mt studio galleries and completely fell in love...so being able finally to make a wall of a Chen Shu Fen scan is so exciting for me
I love so many CSF scans that I had trouble choosing one to start off with, but finally settled on this lovely scan from an artbook I hadn't seen before.

I knew I wanted to go for a soft painted look with this scan...but it took me 3-4 tries before I decided on the background I wanted. With the help of a few photos for realistic object details, I paintbrushed in the foreground and background in Photoshop. The impressionist style, especially Monet, was my inspiration.
(And for some reason the letter...from an imaginary boyfriend?...really fit for me)

Technical details:
I started this almost exactly a week ago (even though I knew I was going to have a busy week of schoolwork -_-' ) and kept sneaking in a few hours every so often to work on it. Today I was finally free (yea spring break) so I devoted about 5 more hours to finishing up the background details and finishing touches.
There were about 36 layers after merging