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Description
Digital drawing without use of AI
Used Software: ArtRage Vitae
"Automated" digital tools used: --> automatic brushes for grass & leaves, hair & straw of the scarecrow
--> stencil for the grain-effect on the wooden elements

Since end of last december I am busy with a project, I decided to realize for an old friend of mine.
He and his wife live in an awesome place, where they are the only habitants in a piece of forest wich lies nearby other settlements.
A bunch of old friends that´s together since about 25-30 years uses this nice area to gather and have parties sometimes.
As my friend often helped me with projects, that I couldn´t realize all by myself, I always searched for clever ideas to make something, to do him back a favor.
Finally I got the idea to draw something like a "logo" for the place, wich we call the "Moldy Heath Ranch" (nothing there is moldy at all, another fact gave the place it´s name^^).
I asked my friend and his wife to provide me with images of details and elements wich for them have an identifying function and tried my best to choose some of them and redraw them by myself to make them parts of my image.
I knew before I started, that this could become a tough job for me, as I always felt, that I don´t have the skillset wich is needed to draw figurative on a level wich feels comfortable....and of cause all sent photos were "figurative stuff" found around the area.
I´m not quite satisfied with the fact, that I still don´t feel comfortable enough to have dared, to draw everything "free", just by looking at the motives.....still I had to start by tracing most outlines and important details before i did most "Fill-In-Work" in a free manner.

Finishing this drawing today on 14th of february let´s me look back on a process, that sometimes got me close to giving up but after every break/interruption I had to take to rebuild some distance, I got back into it and overall really enjoyed the process. It was a beautiful experience to throw myself into a situation wich intimidated and overstrained me, because so much was totally new or at least seldom done.

If anyone should read up to this point here: do you have some kind of "favourite detail"? I do have my own

Description
Digital drawing without use of AI
Used Software: ArtRage Vitae
"Automated" digital tools used: --> automatic brushes for grass & leaves, hair & straw of the scarecrow
--> stencil for the grain-effect on the wooden elements

Since end of last december I am busy with a project, I decided to realize for an old friend of mine.
He and his wife live in an awesome place, where they are the only habitants in a piece of forest wich lies nearby other settlements.
A bunch of old friends that´s together since about 25-30 years uses this nice area to gather and have parties sometimes.
As my friend often helped me with projects, that I couldn´t realize all by myself, I always searched for clever ideas to make something, to do him back a favor.
Finally I got the idea to draw something like a "logo" for the place, wich we call the "Moldy Heath Ranch" (nothing there is moldy at all, another fact gave the place it´s name^^).
I asked my friend and his wife to provide me with images of details and elements wich for them have an identifying function and tried my best to choose some of them and redraw them by myself to make them parts of my image.
I knew before I started, that this could become a tough job for me, as I always felt, that I don´t have the skillset wich is needed to draw figurative on a level wich feels comfortable....and of cause all sent photos were "figurative stuff" found around the area.
I´m not quite satisfied with the fact, that I still don´t feel comfortable enough to have dared, to draw everything "free", just by looking at the motives.....still I had to start by tracing most outlines and important details before i did most "Fill-In-Work" in a free manner.

Finishing this drawing today on 14th of february let´s me look back on a process, that sometimes got me close to giving up but after every break/interruption I had to take to rebuild some distance, I got back into it and overall really enjoyed the process. It was a beautiful experience to throw myself into a situation wich intimidated and overstrained me, because so much was totally new or at least seldom done.

If anyone should read up to this point here: do you have some kind of "favourite detail"? I do have my own