The Sunset My Species

OK. First real full digital painting ever. I really really tried with this one. I am not a fan of how the clouds came out. I will need a lot more practice on digital painting techniques. I like digital painting though because my medium doesn't dry up on me. I hope to get more practice in on different colour palettes and do more experimentation with different brushes.

This snow leopard watches from the mountaintop as he watches the sunset on his once proud race/species. Originally he was going to have a tear drop but it didn't fit the picture when I put it in.

I used a couple of pictures as reference

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and a lot of mountain studying.

I enjoyed doing this. It took about a month and a half of off and on work and frustration and my inability to wrap my mind around some techniques. No special brush packs were used. Just normal Photoshop CS4 brushes. I may do prints of this down the line