this is absolutely amazing, how did you ever reflect the colours onto the water so perfectly?

Good question. I spent a long ass time getting the blur and smudge tool to the point where I could make realistic water, and I'll upload that project (Reflective Pool) up this evening when I get home from work... But that's not how I did this. AS soon as I felt comfortable doing it myself, I accidentally stumbled onto this great Flaming Pear plugin called "Flood" it's so simple and mindlessly easy to use, it oughta come with a apple logo on it. You can control the altitude, perspective, etc, and tweak the water until it's just so. The hard part is staying on target with your picture long enough to draw legs instaed of the lazy... wait a sec, what if he were waist deep in... plugin whoring! Hurrah! More Glitz, less substance! Woo! heheh sorry my answer is such a bummer and let down and all, but when the computer draws it, I can marvel at the perfection. When I draw it, even if it has more sould to it, all I can see is the mishmash of brush strokes. It's sad but true. Hey atleast I'm honest... look at those creeps who are spending 30 seconds in photoshop to make hallmark cards with hideous distorted puppy dogs and cats, they're not going to tell you that's mindlessly simple with digital tools, or that it bearly even counts as art... hell they don't even take the time to smooth out the wiskers after they bulge and distort the image into something "comically hideous".

amazing answer, the mere fact that you put that much time into explaining it to a stranger is great enough, thankyou


now.. i may just go create some comically hideous puppies... cya..

wowwowowowow!!!!!! beautifull!!!!!

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"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."

Edgar Degas