From muddycolours.com :

For the demo, I wanted to portray someone familiar so the audience could understand where I was going with the paint. That way, they’d know if the likeness was off or if I was just phoning it in. (Forgive the pun.)

I chose Ripley, from the film Alien, as my subject. Like so many others, I’m a fan of the character and Sigourney Weaver’s portrayal. I used a frame shot. It’s not just a picture of Ripley, but a moment of her character.

As a painter, portraits provide an incredible learning arena for understanding value, form, contrast, edges, paint mixing, color temperature, and stroking. All the basics for creating any painting from there. It is a hallmark of a painter’s skills, where the basics coalesce to achieve a character’s image.