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I'm incredibly happy with the way this one turned out, I think this one's my most successful painting yet. Full disclosure, this one probably took about two hours (so I wasn't done as quickly as I would have liked), but the end result was worth the time invested. My favorite part is definitely the sky, painting that bright yellow burst of light from the setting sun was really fun. I'm also pretty happy with the foreground too (something I wasn't to satisfied with in yesterday's piece). Check out the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, stop by again tomorrow for another update!

Hey everyone, it's time for today's update! Check it out.

Today's piece took around an hour and ten minutes to finish, I know one thing's for sure tomorrow, I'm not painting any more trees. It's so time consuming! I tried to make them as good as I could but I kinda felt like my hand was gonna shrivel up and fall off so I needed to stop. Aside from the foliage issue, the toughest part was painting the mountains in the background. I originally started off by painting the wrong color, so I had to go back and do it twice. I'm pretty happy with this piece overall, it was a bit intense for a Saturday evening, but it came out nicely. Here's the original photo for reference.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, I hope you guys liked this one. See you tomorrow!

Hey everyone, it's time for today's update! This one's kinda special in that the image used was something an artist I really like posted on Reddit. His name's Noah Bradley, you can check out his stuff by clicking on his name, I included a link to his site there. Anyway, let's take a look at what I painted!

I feel like if I came across this image at the beginning of the month I might have been too intimidated by it's complexity to tackle it, but with a few of these paintings under my belt I felt a lot better about giving this a shot. I started off this one just as I have all the others, the outline was sketched on my background layer, then I colored the image from back to front. I did two detail passes to add in all of the tonal variations needed to convey the shape of the landscape, then once that was done I flipped it, blurred it, and painted in the reflection. The whole process took about an hour ten minutes. I'm really happy with the way this piece turned out. Here's the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, I hope you guys enjoyed this post. Check back again tomorrow for a new digital painting!

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Today's piece was a lot of fun. This one was completed in around 37 minutes. I kinda went a little crazy stylistically, it's a lot looser than my last couple of paintings, but I'm okay with that. The sky's a bit bolder than how it appears in the photo, and the colors are a little less saturated, I like it though! Here's the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, check back tomorrow for a new post.

Hey everyone, time for today's update, have a look!

This was a pretty challenging painting, it was definitely a rewarding experience though. This might be something I'd like to come back to at a later time and clean up a bit more. This took me a little over an hour (mostly due to some nasty Photoshop errors, that was not fun). I'm still following the method I've been using, working from back to front, then doing several passes to add in detail. Seems to be working pretty well. Have a look at the original image.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, come back again tomorrow for another update!

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So yesterday almost everything was blue, today we've got shades of purple and yellow. This one was pretty fun, I like all of the movement in the clouds and the lines in the rock below. There's a nice contrast between soft and hard. Speaking of contrast, I think my Image is lacking in it just a little bit, but overall I'm pleased with how it came out. Here's the original below.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, come back again tomorrow for another update. 

Hey everyone, time for today's update. Have a look!

Today's subject was the Matterhorn in the Pennine Alps. I tried to have fun with this one, I was most concerned with the outline being right and just kind of experimenting with the color. There's really much more blue in the photo than in this painting, but for some reason I couldn't wrap my head around painting the snow on the shadowed side of the mountain blue, so gray was what I used. I "washed" a little blue in at the end to make it look a little more true to life. Here's the original below.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, check back again tomorrow for another update.