Corinthian, thanks for the link there. I pulled up a few of
Shaddy's vids. His comments on Kinkade were hilarious. He's very intuitive, though. The way he puts certain creative things into words I thought was good.
Definitely, my biggest complaint with your pic is the out-of-res pixels. I can see where you scaled the brush WAY up and added texture. Namely, in the bottom left of the brownish hillside. Hopefully, it's just WIP and you'll cover it over.
Otherwise, you have an interesting way of creating gritty texture that gives a kind of abstracty feel.
You don't know PS's vector tools? Oh geeze, you better learn! They're not too bad. You can handle them.
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Here's one by Shaddy that reminds me of the painting techniques you're using.
*EDIT2 colored a friend's rough, random sketch, using the Shaddy brushes. Silly lookin' retarded insect dude resulted.
After trying Shaddy's brush set I see how timid my stroke/brush style is - I'm making a conscious effort to make stronger, bolder strokes. I'm intrigued by these brushes. Never had good textural brushes before. Starting 2014 with some new learning. So far so good.
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There ya go, Dennis. Having a large drawing surface is important.
