revised drawing with added background

**masque** · 23 November 2012, 07:04 AM

Just making a wet afternoon doodle a little more complete. Obligatory thorny, leafless trees, birds and most important toadstools. All the necessary elements of a nonexistent story waiting to be a childrens classic.

**gwpriester** · 23 November 2012, 12:39 PM

Now it works.

**gray** · 23 November 2012, 05:52 PM

Yep, you've caught the feel now, Derek.

**angelize** · 23 November 2012, 07:10 PM

Very lovely Derek. I love the textures and the soft muted colours and those toadstools are a really nice touch.

**Boy** · 23 November 2012, 07:13 PM

Magical.

**Tabian** · 23 November 2012, 07:33 PM

Another master piece Derek I really love your style of drawing, very spooky..

**ACE** · 26 November 2012, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by masque

Just making a wet afternoon doodle a little more complete. Obligatory thorny, leafless trees, birds and most important toadstools. All the necessary elements of a nonexistent story waiting to be a childrens classic.

How did you create the background? Wacom pen tablet? I'd be very interested in any info, as this to me seems like it would take FOREVER with what I know. Thanks.... And nice drawing!

**masque** · 27 November 2012, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by ACE

How did you create the background? Wacom pen tablet? I'd be very interested in any info, as this to me seems like it would take FOREVER with what I know. Thanks.... And nice drawing!

By the background do you mean the trees, which is actually one tree cloned and resized many times, or do you mean the grass on the hill side which is a bitmap from the fill gallery - MOSS - this is faded in the distance overlaid with the clouds as mist. Again only one cloud cloned and reused in various places with varying degrees of transparency and feathering.
And yes, all the drawing is done very freely and loosely using a Wacom. It would be very laborious to do much in the way of cross hatching using a mouse as the drawing tool. Even with a tablet its still not particularly natural, as with a pen on paper, as you can't rotate the drawing on screen so the angle you are drawing at is sometimes very uncomfortable, which leads to scribbly marks rather than neat cross hatching unless you devote hours to do it very carefully - which I don't. (that would be on my wish list for future versions) It's not photo realistic I'm after generally speaking, I've got a nice little camera for that.
I've attached the .xar file for you, or anyone else, to pull apart if interested.