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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
Technology
Pierre Ignaszewski

How to build a digital painting from the ground up using Photoshop and Blender

A digital painting showing a fantasy scene featuring a queen and her pet creatures.

This illustration is a personal piece representing a queen out on a walk with her two beloved pets. I started this illustration in Blender to experiment with architecture and mood before exporting it to Photoshop to draw the different characters.

I then started rendering, starting with the queen and creatures and working my way from the front to the background while going back into Blender to detail the architecture. A complex scene can be intimidating! In my experience, taking it slow and building a strong base is more than half of the work.

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