[x]

Browse More Like This

Download Image
JPG, 1058×550 more ▶

More from *Maverchare

View Gallery

Featured in Groups:

#DA-Speedpaint
art = <3. make art daily.

Details

Submitted: June 18, 2011
Image Size: 363 KB
Resolution: 1058×550

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 3
Favourites: 2 [who?]
Views: 74 (0 today)
Downloads: 3 (0 today)

[x]

These Barren Rich Plainsby *Maverchare

Scraps

" Desert Wilderness" for Speedy du Jour at

60 Minutes

Inspired by the Atacama Desert, which is in Peru and Chile, tough the pictures I found best were probably on the borders of it. Atacama is one of the driest deserts, and there hasn't been anything you could call rain there since records began, roughly 400 years. In some of it's "wetter" regions the water comes from mist and supports the little vegetation that can survive there. But there is also a couple of lucrative copper mines in Atacama as well, so it's not without resources. The only place with less rain I know of is an arctic desert, where thanks to placing and formation hasn't seen any rain in over ten thousand years.

I started out feeling good about this one, but the result is far too dull, and I suspect the way I tried to compensate with colours backfired and just added more problems.

The Artist has requested Critique on this Artwork

Please sign up or login to post a critique.

~MittMac Jun 21, 2011 Digital Artist

great style. it feels like an oilpainting. how do you achieved that smudgy feeling? a CS5 preset or a brush?

*Maverchare Jun 25, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Thank you very much. The effect though comes from taking the image into Corel painter 11 and using the blender brush there to drag and staple the "paint" around. The specific name of the brush is Coarse oily blender if that is of any use

~MittMac Jun 25, 2011 Digital Artist

Ok great, I only have some weird ass old painter essentials haha. maybe I'll dust it off asap and try to work with it. Thanks for the info!

Cheers

More from *Maverchare

Featured in Groups:

Details

Statistics

These Barren Rich Plainsby *Maverchare

The Artist has requested Critique on this Artwork

The Journal Portal

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]

Keep in Touch!

Deviousness

Add Media

Style