Swan Lake

This was made as a gift for a friend's daughter; she's the girl in this painting.

I put all the pieces of the background together with Photoshop, then redrew the BG using the grid method. I then painted over the drawing using the stock photos as reference for colors.

I painted the girl in her own file, same with the swan and the entire background. I then assembled the 3 pieces in the end simply for the reason of making it easier on my PC. The file size was a couple hundred MB and I save a lot as I work, so it only made sense to do them separately. My RAM thanked me every time I worked on it. I hate having to wait 5 minutes for a file to save.

Done mostly in Painter with a sprinkle or three of Photoshop thrown in here and there.

I wasn't going to submit this because it isn't my normal cup of tea, subject-wise. But then I figured what the heck... maybe someone will like it.

Credits:
Background image - [link]
Arches image - [link]
Swan - [link]


THIS IS NOT TO BE USED BY ANYONE AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON