My Travels - Yosemite National Park Sunrise
Cathedral Rocks Vista. Now this was a way to start a morning in a national park! A friend and I had driven to Yosemite the day prior, experiencing overcast and even raining weather that day. This morning...let's just say morning and a sunrise have rarely looked as beautiful! By looking through Michael Frye's excellent photography ebook on Yosemite National Park, we'd identified this as a spot to start a day. The sunlight caught on the peaks and reflections off the nearby waters...they all had this magical look in the setting I'm sure John Muir had written about many a time. The original image captured with my Nikon D800E I posted here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/27992654880).
In painting this image with Adobe Sketch, I focused on a few techniques and ideas. My main focus was on using layers, along with variations of color and tone, to show depth and shapes. About midway through painting the upper portion, Kyle Webster released his Photoshop Brushes to use with any CC license. I tried that out, experimenting with different ones to have a more "analog" look as I used my Apple Pencil. The best area I felt this came out was in the skies. Before my attempts had not been quite what I'd wanted. I was able to find in his dry media collection, a brush that brought out a feel as if painted with real brush. I'll be experimenting more, needless to say...
In the right foreground of the digital painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring Yosemite National Park...and what a beautiful spring morning to take in the Sierra Nevada in California!
My Travels - Yosemite National Park Sunrise
Cathedral Rocks Vista. Now this was a way to start a morning in a national park! A friend and I had driven to Yosemite the day prior, experiencing overcast and even raining weather that day. This morning...let's just say morning and a sunrise have rarely looked as beautiful! By looking through Michael Frye's excellent photography ebook on Yosemite National Park, we'd identified this as a spot to start a day. The sunlight caught on the peaks and reflections off the nearby waters...they all had this magical look in the setting I'm sure John Muir had written about many a time. The original image captured with my Nikon D800E I posted here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/27992654880).
In painting this image with Adobe Sketch, I focused on a few techniques and ideas. My main focus was on using layers, along with variations of color and tone, to show depth and shapes. About midway through painting the upper portion, Kyle Webster released his Photoshop Brushes to use with any CC license. I tried that out, experimenting with different ones to have a more "analog" look as I used my Apple Pencil. The best area I felt this came out was in the skies. Before my attempts had not been quite what I'd wanted. I was able to find in his dry media collection, a brush that brought out a feel as if painted with real brush. I'll be experimenting more, needless to say...
In the right foreground of the digital painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring Yosemite National Park...and what a beautiful spring morning to take in the Sierra Nevada in California!