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UPDATE: Have made some changes to this and uploaded it as a wallpaper. Take a look at the new version. [link]
END UPDATE

Working on this reminded me of when I'm writing a story. Halfway through I realise the characters have their own idea of what to do. Halfway through this piece I realised it was nothing like I envisioned.

I began with the thinking that since I had taken up digital painting and found that I surprisingly didn't suck at it, I should try my hand at other stuff too. So I though of doing a pure photo-manipulation. There were going to be huge green fields and sweeping vistas and clear blue skies and birds. Obviously none of that happened.

Instead I threw away the cloud photos and took up my tablet again and (with the help of a tutorial on how to draw clouds) began to paint. Pretty soon I had a whole nice looking clear blue sky with some pretty real looking clouds. Then I went for the green grass. Which didn't work out quite as nicely as I had hoped. In the end I decided that the grass should be a silhouette which gave me the idea to make the sky more sunsetty... the overall effect wasn't that bad but something was missing.

Then I realised that I had started on this as a manip and here I was not manipulating a photo at all so I took checked out some stocks and selected a suitable looking figure and PRESTO! Here it is!

I admit that I was pretty careless by the end left some little things that I should have cleaned up. I don't like the lens flare either but as usual I got bored with it and wanted it done immediately, if not sooner.

Girl from nanfe-stock [link]

Description
UPDATE: Have made some changes to this and uploaded it as a wallpaper. Take a look at the new version. [link]
END UPDATE

Working on this reminded me of when I'm writing a story. Halfway through I realise the characters have their own idea of what to do. Halfway through this piece I realised it was nothing like I envisioned.

I began with the thinking that since I had taken up digital painting and found that I surprisingly didn't suck at it, I should try my hand at other stuff too. So I though of doing a pure photo-manipulation. There were going to be huge green fields and sweeping vistas and clear blue skies and birds. Obviously none of that happened.

Instead I threw away the cloud photos and took up my tablet again and (with the help of a tutorial on how to draw clouds) began to paint. Pretty soon I had a whole nice looking clear blue sky with some pretty real looking clouds. Then I went for the green grass. Which didn't work out quite as nicely as I had hoped. In the end I decided that the grass should be a silhouette which gave me the idea to make the sky more sunsetty... the overall effect wasn't that bad but something was missing.

Then I realised that I had started on this as a manip and here I was not manipulating a photo at all so I took checked out some stocks and selected a suitable looking figure and PRESTO! Here it is!

I admit that I was pretty careless by the end left some little things that I should have cleaned up. I don't like the lens flare either but as usual I got bored with it and wanted it done immediately, if not sooner.

Girl from nanfe-stock [link]