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Description "Sakura" series


On Thanksgiving, My 82 year young mother asked me to please find her a small picture of her favorite bird - a red Cardinal. I decided to create one for her instead and give it to her as a gift

For the picture's central theme, I wanted to depict a small bird surviving life to live another day

In Japan, "Sakura" means "Cherry Blossom" and is culturally symbolic of the yearly arrival of Spring and the physical rebirth/spiritual renewel of life


So here is a small red bird who is all alone in a frozen world, awaiting.....



Sakura




base image photography credit:  JapanTravel.com  "Snow at Daigo Temple" by Cathy Cawood






Things grow - I am now developing the Sakura stills into an animation series



For Photoshop actions - I personally use and highly recommend actions created by 

   GraphicAssets on DA (sreda on Graphic River) & 

   Walllow (on Graphic River and yes that is THREE l's in the name)



I could not create my art without having access to and using a wide variety of "stock" resources such as textures, images, vectors, clip art, etc etc.  I am constantly looking for new resources and getting rid of inferior ones from my utility collections.  Like programmers say "GIGO" 

To create the art you are looking at, I used the following:

1. my favorite graphics program "paintdotnet" which cost me the staggering amount of ......nothing.  It is a free program.  

2. For .eps files and vectors I use Inkscape - which rivals Illustrator and costs.............nothing.

3. materials and images which I either hand-create or they come from one of my "toolboxes"  which are collections of the best stock resources that I can get my grimy little paws on

In my most treasured time tested "go to" toolboxes there are materials that I have obtained from some of the finest and most outstanding Stock Resource creators/suppliers in the world - I mean that literally.  Over time, I have finally tracked down the best creators and suppliers and found out where they were located, which is why I joined Deviantart in the first place.  

I have obtained some of my best resources from, and whole heartedly recommend, the following deviants among many many more (who I will add to this list over time)

Sirius-sdz                       galaxiesanddust              gatetodreams
Tigers-Stock                   glassthroughskin             Prince-of-airbrush
Lune-blanche                  allison731                      TinaLouiseUk
mercurycode                   inadesign-Stock              AledJonesStockNArt
infrablack_stock              lilith-trash                      btchdirectioner
webtreats                       FantasyStock                  All Things Precious
ERA-7                            Roy3D                            ElenaDudina
tralfaz                            Jean52                           GraphicAssets
beckas                           wolverine041269
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Carlton                          Elevit-Stock
TheSyanArt                    Sonarpos
Hehayo                          DiZa-74
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jojo-ojoj                        Bellacrix
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Comments: 5

DanielWolff-Gallery [2018-01-12 23:14:57 +0000 UTC]

Outstanding! Beautiful!

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Alena-48 [2018-01-12 13:39:12 +0000 UTC]

Very beautiful!
Feature here  Third feature 2018Hi  everyone!

Have a great weekend!
I hope you have a good time!









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sdiggman In reply to Alena-48 [2018-01-12 13:47:05 +0000 UTC]

thank you very much

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Alena-48 In reply to sdiggman [2018-01-13 16:21:38 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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BillyNikoll [2018-01-07 09:19:01 +0000 UTC]

Well done!  

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