Hmm... This one was unintentional.
Started out as the background for a very different idea I had. But the more I worked on it, the more screwed up it got, to the point where it didn't even closely resemble the picture I had in my head.
Figured that within this pic, the original concept was unsalvageable, so I didn't bother trying to go back to it. Just kept going with this as it was. I figure the end result isn't too bad, even though it's not at all what I originally had in mind.
So I'm posting this, and I'll hopefully be able to do the original idea I had some other day after a fresh new start. It just wasn't meant to be this time around.
Anyway, I know I've recently done a pic with foreground bushes and vines, and I don't usually like being so repetitive. But they seemed right here, so I'm leaving them in.
Start to finish in Photoshop, no refs. This took several hours, partly because I was trying to force it to be something it wasn't.
Edit: Moved this out from scraps to my regular gallery due to a print request.
Started out as the background for a very different idea I had. But the more I worked on it, the more screwed up it got, to the point where it didn't even closely resemble the picture I had in my head.
Figured that within this pic, the original concept was unsalvageable, so I didn't bother trying to go back to it. Just kept going with this as it was. I figure the end result isn't too bad, even though it's not at all what I originally had in mind.
So I'm posting this, and I'll hopefully be able to do the original idea I had some other day after a fresh new start. It just wasn't meant to be this time around.
Anyway, I know I've recently done a pic with foreground bushes and vines, and I don't usually like being so repetitive. But they seemed right here, so I'm leaving them in.
Start to finish in Photoshop, no refs. This took several hours, partly because I was trying to force it to be something it wasn't.
Edit: Moved this out from scraps to my regular gallery due to a print request.
Now imagine seeing something like this in real life.....
How wonderful & amazing would that be?
EXCELLENT WORK friend.
Great job with those trees. I have a picture I'm working on with trees but it's definitely not my forte'. >_<
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The only thing that stands out to me a little bit is the second mini waterfall, it seems a little, I don't know what the word would be, stiff? On the turn it's not quite as fluid as the one above it. But that's tiny compared to how awesome everything else is ^^
And oh, totally random but, do you go around gaia anymore?
Ah, Gaia! *guilt guilt guilt guilt* I keep meaning to PM Dri to let her know I can't mod there anymore. (Unless I've already been de-modded, which wouldn't surprise me at all.) I haven't been there in a very long time. I burned out a few months back, and some behind-the-scene stuff had me a bit peeved. I hope to go back someday, but I just don't have the desire at the moment.
'Cuz...
The original picture in my head was actually even more vertically oriented than this one. Part of it was the motion of the ribbons. They were vertical.
I don't know. I swear, I'm going to be 90 by the time I can accurately capture the images in my head. ^_^
It's so beautiful, even though you didn't intend it. I love how...private the little waterfall seems, how we're looking past bushes to see it, like we're trespassing onto something precious and secret.
I dunno, this doesn't feel quite like a scrap, but it doesn't feel like a polished piece either. It's somewhere inbetween. And when I'm not sure about pics, the scrap bin is the default place I put them.
It's really nicely drawn even though it didnt turn out to be what you wanted....
Maybe I just need to walk away and not look at this for a while. Because right now, while I do like parts of it (or I wouldn't have posted it,) I can't get over the fact that the entire picture represents one big mistake. Heh!