Progress shots

The quick and easy part. The underlying shadow can all be done with a large brush.

At this stage of just outlining the "coins", we were all rather taken with the potential of the pattern it generated. Might be useful for another image.

The moment of truth. This is where I discover whether a model has a ticklish navel. (Not so in this case.)

I'm not sure that this piercing is anatomically possible, but we all liked the look of it anyway.

Images and text copyright R. Edgecombe, 2003