This quarter, I’m taking several classes that are very challenging. I’m comfortable designing logos and setting type, but painting? The depths of photo manipulation? It’s new territory for me. I’ve really had to let go of needing to make something incredible… and be just happy about learning and experimenting.
So I actually had fun making these two paintings in Photoshop. Starting with scanned sketches, I used the stylus, custom brushes, and layer modes. And canvas texture overlays are the magic ingredient! I wish I actually knew more about painting theory, though. It’s hard to mimic techniques that I don’t know anything about… The first one is based on Neo-impressionism and something I designed way back in Fundamentals of Design. The tulips are derived from recent Life Drawing homework.
“Hand-drawn fractals”…too cool. The canvas overlay is so real!