Sky Garden

Work in progress shots

This is probably the biggest image I've painted! So much grass and many rocks and flowers and things...! I got so tired of drawing grass, flowers, and rocks and started getting burnt out near the end when I was trying to make that little stream look okay.

Uh... The majority of this image was painted on a single layer in Photoshop. The main things that are on separate layers are the tree leaves, lantern glow effects, and birds and uh... yes. This was actually an idea I had months ago, which I ended up discarding after drawing a very vague, scribbly version of this. I ended up finding that scribbly image, and whimsically decided to open it in Photoshop, enlarge it to a decent size, and paint over it...!

I added a lot of small details like cracks on the rocks and things, but you can't see them at this size! Here's a close up of some rocks though...! Also, work in progress image things can be found here.

Anyway, uh... I'm proud of this...!

Edit 31/07/2010: Added some sparkles around the lanterns...!