I Tried Out Digital Painting...

[GwenDR]

And I think it came out really well. There's details I'm not happy with, and but over all, it's pretty good.

 

[void]

@Gwen D Renee

I like it!

Are you new to art or just new to using digital media to make art?

 

[ladee]

Very good!

 

[Mairin]

Love this!

 

[anthony]

Shit... that's pretty awesome actually. Well done.

 

[GwenDR]

I'd say I'm an intermediate artist. I've taken a few art classes, including ones that go over color theory, but never anything with painting, either physical or digital. I have had a fair amount of drawing experience, though. So I had an idea of what I was doing, but was still figuring it out as I went.

Also, I was using a photograph of an already painted miniature as a reference. This meant that two challenging tasks were already done for me: it had already been squished from a 3d object into a 2d object by the camera, and the artist had already chosen coloration that I could just copy; I didn't have to figure out how to represent real world colors using whatever pallate I had chosen. Both of those are non-trivial challenges that I was able to bypass. I really need to try painting something from life.