Dandelion (Impressionist; Stem and Seed Ball)
This is digital watercolor “lifted” (or color-traced) from a 3D render of a dandelion, which I worked up in 3D Studio Max from a plant-generating plugin called XFrog. I created the background with various brushes, repeated layer wetting and sponges, on custom watercolor paper canvas textures I’d made long ago. I mixed in some cloned pencil layers for darkening and detail. I then used some trickery, turning what had been watercolor/pencil into a bit of light cloned oil paint in places: if you flatten a digital watercolor painting to another file (e.g. a flattened .tiff image), you can reopen from that file and treat it like oil. http://earthbound.io/blog/
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