Digital Painting

The strongest part of my visual is how close it looks to the original picture. I could improve the visual by transitioning the colors better as it's kind of noticeable where huge color contrasts are. I had the original picture in a different layer and had a layer on top to highlight the color shifts for reference by using the paint brush tool. I used the eye dropper tool to pick up the colors used in the original picture. Using a white new layer with the highlighted edges layer on top, I used the colors from the eye dropper tool and then used the paint brush tool to start filling in the picture with various shades of color. After that, I used the mixer brush tool to start blending in the colors and making the picture look like a detailed painting of the original picture. The easiest part was painting over the color shifts of the original picture as it didn't really take much time. The most difficult part was blending in the colors because having to use different brushes and brush sizes was a pain to keep up with for different sections of the visual. I demonstrated each objective by using the new tools taught for this lesson as well as tools used in previous lessons. I showed plenty of detail in the picture as well as blending the colors. If I could do this project again, I would probably choose a picture with more detail as this is just a picture of a sunset and it really only uses shades of black, gray, white, blue and yellow. I would rate my effort a 9/10 because I think this is the best thing I've made in this class and I know there's always more room to improve the picture if there's no deadline.

Digital Painting:

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