This is a completely digital painting of one of my characters, Bird, done in Adobe Photoshop. I made brushes to resemble watercolor or gouache painting to shade the portrait, made brushes from photographs to draw the thornbushes in the background, made brushes from old scanned documents to make the fingerprints, smudges and splatters, and scanned an old book for the sketchbook background. So pretty much, I scanned stuff a lot and made lots of brushes. Why go to all the trouble? Because I wanted the painting to look as real as possible, like the whole thing had been painted in my sketchbook. I'm reasonably happy with the result, especially with how the painting curves with the scanned pages into the center fold of the book. Hope you like it!
