Sunset at Monoliths’ Beach – Work in progress I

Well, it was about time I post my work in digital arts. It’s a digital landscape painting that I’ve just started working on. It’s called “Sunset at Monoliths’ Beach”.

This is entirely done in Photoshop.

I started as usual with the building blocks, I painted a few blocks of colours, the main colours with which I’m going to work. I first drew the horizon line and then filled all the other parts, the foreground and the background with colour.

I, then, drew my subjects, the monoliths. Gave a few lines of water from the tides. Later on I will give it more details, I’ll make them more silky, mimicking a long exposure effect.

After a while I decided to add some highlights and shadows to the entire composition. I went for highly saturated colours to give it more drama to the scene.

This was the main idea of the composition, to give it a lot of drama. I will soon be adding some more highlights and shadows and textured details to refine the scene even further. The thing is to give it a dreamy, surreal effect in the end, using a kind of glamour glow, to make it like a fantasy type of landscape. This was my main focus while I was imagining it.

Yesterday, the 1st of July, 2014, I imagined this scene with a sunset on a beach with these beautiful, but rather strange looking monoliths standing the test of time and tidal waves. The sunset has to be very dramatic, yet very noble, in a way, very refined, not quite punchy like you see it in the work in progress.

Death Valley U.S.A. really inspired me to create these big rocks with strange forms, rather looking like sphynxes heads or something. Also, the texture of these rocks are very crispy and I will keep this main idea and refine them, soften them a little bit. I don’t want to make them tsingy looking, like those very sharp rock formations in Madagascar.

I will also keep the composition very dark but it’ll also contain blacks and whites at the same time. I want as much colour range and tonality as possible in this landscape.

So, check out the work in progress image and I’ll see you next time. :D

Leave any comments, suggestions or thoughts if you like. Thanks a lot! :)

Work in progress I

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