Wednesday, September 14, 2016
First draft
Here's a first draft of Polistra's new Mill. The original was found in a 1910 Inland Printer journal, and the scene was so stunningly beautiful that Polistra wanted me to 'build' it for a printshop. The project is keeping my mind nicely occupied during recovery from surgery.
Original:
My digital version is WAY too neat and clean, which is sort of unavoidable in digital graphics. I'll try to roughen and mossy it up some, but not too much. I couldn't resist making the building a little more symmetrical and usable in terms of light and space. It's also difficult to get a lot of trees into a digital scene. Digital trees, like real-life trees, are extravagantly wasteful. The tree on the left takes 3 times as much memory as everything else in the scene! You can substitute a backdrop picture, but the result is usually unsatisfying.
¶ 1:39 PM 
My digital version is WAY too neat and clean, which is sort of unavoidable in digital graphics. I'll try to roughen and mossy it up some, but not too much. I couldn't resist making the building a little more symmetrical and usable in terms of light and space. It's also difficult to get a lot of trees into a digital scene. Digital trees, like real-life trees, are extravagantly wasteful. The tree on the left takes 3 times as much memory as everything else in the scene! You can substitute a backdrop picture, but the result is usually unsatisfying.
¶ 1:39 PM
