Figure Study from 2008 - Veronika Zemanova

This is a painting done entirely in Photoshop back in 2008. Photograph of the wildly beautiful Veronika Zemanova was used as a reference. They don't quite make them like that anymore... It was one of my more successful studies as evidenced by the result. Oddly, I don't think I ever went back and did more drawings of her despite this success.

I am trying to keep this website mostly clean so I censored the image.

This woman disappeared from the public scene after her modeling career, I don't think there's a good link directly to her online though there are many fan sites still.

Figure Study from 2008 - Luba Shumeyko

I used to do these studies a lot more when I first started drawing and actively attempting to improve as an artist. This drawing was entirely done in Photoshop. The original reference photo was NSFW, recently (2025) retouched to make it more internet and general public friendly. The model is Luba Shumeyko and you can search for her on the interwebs and find lots of cool shots. Besides the fact she is beautiful, there's something charming in the way she poses for a lot of her shoots, and the lighting used often appears to be very friendly for artists like me who are struggling to better understand the shape of the body and the anatomy.

I ended up referencing her figure and posing in other artowrks such as THIS one.

Other Figure Studies:

Bar Refaeli Portrait

Digital portrait painting done in 2010 for practice. Years later, Bar Refaeli still looks amazing.