Nancy Holder - Monroe County Middle School

First I imported the picture of the character from the original piece and erased the eyes.
I then drew the eyes closed and selected the top part of the jaw.
After that I moved the jaw down a bit and went over the lines and color.
The I proceeded to sketch out how I wanted the background to look.
I then started to paint the background on a separate layer behind the character.
I used the synthetic angular flat brush to paint the waterfall and the camo and speckle brush to make the splashes in the water.
I used the technical brush to make the was and the ripples,then I took the flow airbrush to add the dark and light colors to the water.
Then I used the technical pen to color in the rocks and the charcoal brush to add texture to it.
I then used a green color and the camo brush to add moss to the rocks.
After that i used the technical pen yet again to build the structure of my tree.
I went on to create the sun and light rays in the sky with the technical pen and cashmere eraser.
I then went and created my clouds and sky with the technical pen and flow airbrush.
I proceeded to import my progress to the Sketchbook on my computer where I have a grass and leaf tool I created.
I started to create the leaves and grass.
I then created a layer above everything and used the radial fill to darken the parts farther away from the sun.
I went back with white color and the flow airbrush and lightened some of the parts that the light hit.
I continued with an icy blue color and the technical pen and started creating dots I then used the flow airbrush to add glow to those dots, these were my fireflies.
Then i used the same icy blue color with the technical pen yet again and created a butterfly on the characters snout, I again used the flow airbrush to create a glow.