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longestdistance — Where the stars meet the sea.
#blue #sea #beach #bioluminescent #milkyway #stars #waves
Published: 2015-08-19 02:13:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 7690; Favourites: 724; Downloads: 155
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Print available here!I spent last week in Virginia Beach for a family reunion. On the final night, the waves were glowing a bluish-green, and the sand itself looked like twinkling stars. If you stomped around in the wet sand, it looked like flashes of lightning. Until that night I had no idea that this phenomenon existed (bioluminescent plankton), so it was an amazing and surprising sight to behold. In addition, the Milky Way was visible, and my sister saw some shooting stars.
All my photos of the waves sucked so I decided to paint what I saw that night, with my own personal twist ofc! I've been considering doing more scenery pics since they don't take as long and allow me to exercise more creative freedom
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Lol yess so sparkly! Thank you
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your backgrounds/sceneries are absolutely gorgeous ahhhh
do you have any tips on drawing backgrounds?? I'm trying to get into them more;;
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Thank you so much!!
Here are some tips I can think of:
- Gradients are cool. Make things fade different colors
- Play around with layer blending modes like overlay, multiply, screen, etc. Helps you get that glowy look, or if you need to add some extra shadow
- Atmosphere is the difference between a flat painting and a realistic one. For example: green mountains in the distance appear a grayish blue, rather than green.
- If you use SAI you should get the foliage brushes if you don't have them already (google 'foliage brushes for sai' and follow the first link. Download password is 'sasa' iirc)
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