Having a wrestle with digital drawing again. This time I am trying to reproduce one of my own photos of a white heron in the Camargue, Southern France to practice proportions and textures.
One thing is getting the drawing right, but coloring in Photoshop easily turns a drawing very flat and plastic like. It takes some exercise to figure out how to counter that.
I am ok with the way this image turned out, even if I did not entirely get rid of that polished look. I attempted to get as close to the realism of the photo as possible. I think that worked out ok, both with the heron anatomy and pose, the lighting, and the flow and reflection of the water.
