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This was a piece which broke a lot of boundaries for me and I'm still super happy with how it came out. I always find creating scenes quite difficult, and I struggled with the colour scheme here but taking a break and coming back to it with fresh eyes always helps!

1 - I knew I wanted to paint the Rex, but wasn't quite sure of the scene yet. Just getting a super basic idea down using values.

2 - Sticking with just values, getting an idea for my overall light source. Keeping it really simple. Decided to have foreground Struthis running away.

3 - Not sure what I was doing with the colours here. Bit of a mess of everything and nothing was really working. I just tried not to get hung up on it and carried on as you can always tweak colours later.

4 - Needed the ground to gel more with the colours in the sky so went for an ochre which really worked. But still I was very uncertain with the image as a whole. I remember leaving it like this for a couple of weeks as I wasn't sure how to continue.

5 - Came back to it, tilted the composition to add dynamism and resketched over the Rex as it felt too plastic and static. Making the Rex in mid-stride really helped with this. Started thinking about foreground vegetation to add another plane to the image, with it almost acting like a border up the left side.

6 - Started properly detailing. At this stage I pretty much flatten everything and just kept working on top.

7 - Further detailing and contrast tweaks.

8 - Final touches and detailing. I pushed out the blues using a gradient overlay on the 'lighter colour' layer mode, which really helped contrast with the ochre and make everything pop.

Static step by step is here if you guys want a better look -

Also, do let me know if this is of any help to you guys? I usually always save little process screenies. I would like to do proper tutorials at some point but right now I'm no where near good/confident enough with my process!

Finished piece -

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Description

This was a piece which broke a lot of boundaries for me and I'm still super happy with how it came out. I always find creating scenes quite difficult, and I struggled with the colour scheme here but taking a break and coming back to it with fresh eyes always helps!

1 - I knew I wanted to paint the Rex, but wasn't quite sure of the scene yet. Just getting a super basic idea down using values.

2 - Sticking with just values, getting an idea for my overall light source. Keeping it really simple. Decided to have foreground Struthis running away.

3 - Not sure what I was doing with the colours here. Bit of a mess of everything and nothing was really working. I just tried not to get hung up on it and carried on as you can always tweak colours later.

4 - Needed the ground to gel more with the colours in the sky so went for an ochre which really worked. But still I was very uncertain with the image as a whole. I remember leaving it like this for a couple of weeks as I wasn't sure how to continue.

5 - Came back to it, tilted the composition to add dynamism and resketched over the Rex as it felt too plastic and static. Making the Rex in mid-stride really helped with this. Started thinking about foreground vegetation to add another plane to the image, with it almost acting like a border up the left side.

6 - Started properly detailing. At this stage I pretty much flatten everything and just kept working on top.

7 - Further detailing and contrast tweaks.

8 - Final touches and detailing. I pushed out the blues using a gradient overlay on the 'lighter colour' layer mode, which really helped contrast with the ochre and make everything pop.

Static step by step is here if you guys want a better look -

Also, do let me know if this is of any help to you guys? I usually always save little process screenies. I would like to do proper tutorials at some point but right now I'm no where near good/confident enough with my process!

Finished piece -

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Follow me on Instagram - www.instagram.com/fleeting_emb…