Digital Painting

          I think the strongest aspect of my work is the quality of the figure of the painting. It looks very similar to the reference picture I used, in terms of shape. The shape and detail stands out the most in my opinion. Easily, the aspect I could have improved on was the shading. The shading was the most difficult part I think. I have never used the blending tool before, and it is much harder to smoothly blend colors than I thought it would be.

          The easiest part of this activity was drawing the actual picture. It was basically tracing, so it wasn't very difficult. Drawing the picture was much easier than the process of blending and coloring. The difficult part of this activity, even more difficult and time consuming than the blending, was cleaning up and making the painting look complete. Before the cleaning up process, the painting just looked sloppy and unfinished.

          I demonstrated the objective in this activity by clearly using the blending tool and trying to execute clean, and smooth blending of colors. Although it didn't work out the best everywhere, smooth blending is easily shown in the face and legs. If i could do this activity again, I would most likely choose a different picture. This picture was a cartoon, so clean and smooth blending isn't usually necessary. However, if I used an animal, or something that didn't look like it came from a comic book, the blending of colors would look better.