What I have been working on today.

Well after a few failed drawings I sat down and thought about what is holding me back and why I can put this image that's in my head into a sketch that looks good and as soon as I start painting I just can't finish it. I came to the conclusion that A) I dont know how to paint well enough and the brushes in photoshop just feel different. B) I am not putting in strong enough values and shapes. And finally, C) I don't know how to start pronouncing the tedius shapes and textures to make it visually clear. Well to work on this I decided to do paint overs or basically color in the lines and paint from the image to take the thinking out of it and just paint. I am also going to be using textures to help me understand how to paint them as well, however they will not be from the original image.

So at this point I am about an hour-hour and a half in. I just added in some basic textures to start working with and added the fly fisherman outline. I will be trying to actually add detail to him later on and probably will move him farther out into the water. I need to create a better sense of just how large this lake is as well but I think that will start to show more as I continue adding small bits here and there. The grass on the bottom left corner is simply a place holder and I will be smudging it down and cleaning it up with less obvious brush use.
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/9862/lakemarie.png
I will post updates and eventually the original image to show you what the original looked like. Just wanted to contribute something to the site and let you guys know what I am up to in the mean time.

Perfect art. Except the man.
But 10/10 i like it so much!

Looking good bro.

It's indeed looking good bro.

I feel as if some parts of the picture such as the top left corner has too much texture on it compared to the rest of the picture. Maybe you can lower the opacity or do something to make it look natural because when I first looked at the picture, the textures that stood out caught my eye the most. However, it is a good painting so I'll give it a 7/10 in my opinion. Hope the advice I gave you helps :D

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Originally Posted by MyUsernameIsNam

I feel as if some parts of the picture such as the top left corner has too much texture on it compared to the rest of the picture. Maybe you can lower the opacity or do something to make it look natural because when I first looked at the picture, the textures that stood out caught my eye the most. However, it is a good painting so I'll give it a 7/10 in my opinion. Hope the advice I gave you helps :D

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Yeah I agree. I am actually going to paint over most of the textures to bring back the feel of a painting. I just havent had the motivation to open the file back up. Starting recreating a scene from one of my deployments and have been chipping away at that for a bit.