From photo to artwork - A sharing thread.

[angelize]

I'm calling this a sharing thread because I am going to share a piece of artwork, but I am going to also share my progress as I work on the drawing. I am starting with a photo that I have had kicking around my hard drive since last summer. My intent here is not to produce a photo realistic piece but rather a piece of art work based on the photo.

I have begun by working on the background I have picked colours from the photo and have layered shapes and transparencies and I have used the enhance> blur live effect and a bit of diffuse. My hope is that this will give the finished drawing a bit of depth.

I welcome any critiques and or comments as the drawing progresses. Here is the photo and what I have so far. I hope you will join in and share your thoughts, tips, etc and by the end maybe we will have all learned from each other!