- Drawing For A Ladie's Retreat -

Every year at this time I usually get a call from a friend to do some kind of art for a ladies retreat. These are usually fun to do and I thought it might be interesting to post the process of creating one of these. I used Corel Painter IX for this one and set it up for a 4 x 6 image at 300dpi, using the pencil tool (set at size 9). I used the airbrush tool on the finished one at the bottom. Normally I would do a larger image size, but this one will be used on a letterhead and small brochure. They wanted four elements in the picture: a candle, an open bible on a stand, a rose in a vase, and a small framed picture. This was my first idea:



which was lovingly rejected, so I did a couple of thumnails, #1 and #2 and the winner was #2. The finished drawing is at the bottom.
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