/ Día de los Cowboys / Experimental technique & practice Photoshop illustration
Finished piece. 16 bit, 7800px X 9000px (26” X 30” @ 300 ppi).
Detail closeup.
Chronological saved versions.
The setup.
Inspiration: This book and an old photograph of my great grandpa (I think he is second from right) and his three friends.
Factoids
- About halfway through this drawing I felt compeled to check my proportions with several sheets of “gridded” transparency, combined to create a 20” X 23” grid, taped to original photograph.
- At the time that I added the grid I also converted the bit depth to 16; I was amazed to see the difference in file size: 65.5 MB vs. 629.4 MB. The document size of the final version: 1.12 GB.
- For the majority of this 7800px X 9000px illustration I used a 3px brush tip.