Final Image #4 Discarded (step by step)

Work on my 4th final digital image, is of a patch of daisies, that you can find in my reportage sketchbook. This one is more of a digital transformation, than a recreation. As I decided to manipulate the image, to be as accurate as possible. I tried to make this final piece, resemble a print, maybe like something you would find on a cushion, or on curtains.

I decided to discard this as one of my final pieces in this unit, because I felt that It was turning out to be an illustration that I would have disliked too much, also I felt that I traced too much over the flowers, for it to be a legitimate final piece.

I inserted the image of the patch of daisies on a new layer, that I sketched my initial reportage piece from.

I placed the file onto the layer.

I lowered the opacity of the photo.

I then transferred it, from photo, to digital image with precision accuracy, using a black brush.

Ditto.

As before, but at a slightly later stage.

Outline now complete.

I then increased the opacity of the background image.

I used the colour picker tool, to select the most accurate colour from the yellow in the daisies.

The image, after all the centres of the flowers had been filled in with the fill bucket tool.

I then used the same colour picker to take a sample of the green, from the flowers stem. I pasted this in after.

I added a light blue background, to make the piece more colourful.

I then began to add the white colour, to the petals.

Ditto, as complete.


I then removed the original base image file, from the final, and added a slight gradient, from left to right, going from a very light, to a slightly deeper blue tone.

Began to start adding some daisy stems.

Added some clouds to break up the image a bit, and began to add detail to the individual petals. I also finished the stems.

The image after all the petal detail was added.

I added some heavy detail in the flower centres, and I am starting to add some simple shading to the stems of the plants.