Poppy and Bee
For this digital painting, I started with a photo I took at a local garden of a bee in a poppy in the middle of the day. The harder light lent simpler colors, but still enough to be interesting, plus the lovely spectral highlights on the bee's wings. To make the painting, I zoomed in until I was seeing individual pixels and then began a process of retexturing the image on a new layer using a colored pencil brush.
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This digital painting uses a pen & ink technique to portray my cat Courtney when she was feeling photogenic. To make it, I zoomed in and made the strokes where the fur was in my reference image of her. For the record, she is a lovely cat who will purr just from looking at you.
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This piece was made in Photoshop based on a picture I took of a towel that was hanging on my bedroom door. To make it, I zoomed in and made strokes where the fibers of the towel were, with longer and more concentrated strokes where there is more shade.
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