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I made these using black & white photos found on the internet as guides. Although I usually work in Photo, I did a lot of the vector work in Designer, as I find it easier to switch between the Pen and he Node tools; then again, some things are easier or only available in Photo.
She wasn't just a comic dancer: she was a decorated war hero of the French resistance, and set up and funded a number of philanthropic projects, as well as championing civil rights back in the US.
And she really did have a pet Leopard named Chiquita.

This first one was made entirely from vectors with flat fills and no outline (apart from the text, of course).

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For this one, I got a little more ambitious. It's made with Vector shapes, gradients and brush shading.  I had the style of Gaspar Camps in mind, but it's a lot simpler than his work. Still., I'm learning!

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More ambitious still! Made the same way as the previous pic, but with a lot more brush shading and gradients. Here I was thinking of Alphonse Mucha; see previous comment!
I made two image brushes for the leopard's rosettes (spots to you and me). The 'leaves' are supposed to be feathers! I've tried out a couple of alternative colours with HSL adjustments, but I can't make up my mind which I like best..
For the shadow, I created a new pixel layer in Photo with 'Merge visible', converted it to black (Levels), stretched it with the Move tool (and a little adjustment to the feet with the Mesh Warp tool). I then applied a gradient and a Box Blur live filter, also with a gradient to make it lighter and more blurred further up the image.Josephine-Leopard-00FB.jpg.8f2a1731d3edb2d58fe21ce34993c310.jpg

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