Cascade Faerie

2005

Project Information

Medium | Digital - Photoshop CS

This is the piece that started me on the journey to the artist I am today. “Cascade Faerie” was my first venture into digital fantasy art that I did way back in 2005, after learning digital painting techniques from a tutorial CD-ROM that I had recently purchased at the time (yes, I am showing my age here).

I used a pose that I found in one of my pose reference books that I had at them time, for my preliminary drawing, and decided to give her butterfly-wings (I initially wanted to give her fish-fin-styled wings, but I didn’t like how they came out). I also knocked up a simple backdrop, using the cloud filter and stretching the layer vertically (if I remember correctly), then I created a tree trunk and branch shape, and threw on a tree bark photo texture (not the best idea, but I didn’t know any better at the time).

Although I have come a long way since I did this piece, I still kinda like this piece, despite the many issues that it has. I may do a new, updated version of this in the future.