First Challenge at Creative Pixels Designs

Ho!Ho!Ho! Christmas is around the corner.... crazy, what? times goes by so quick!!

I'm doing another course at Digital Art Academy - the second part of Art Rage. Wow! You can't believe how enchanted I am with all the possibilities of this program. And also with the sweetness of out teacher, Karen Bonaker.

This is my assignment for the first week and I love doing it!
I used as tracing image an image from the fabulous artist Gustavo Aimar at FLICKR here.

Then I picked the colors using a colorpicker site to generate reference colors.


I also used a textured background from my own under the bird image and made the stroked background and different layers and blending effects. The contour was painted with the black pencil and blended with overlay mode.

See here below my other work, where I was training exclusively with the paint tube and palette knife:




I'm designer at CPD and there is a great challenge going on:

Creative Pixels Designs
store
holds its 1st challenge!
Hurry up to take part in the game and win $ 10!!!

The CPD is launching an unprecedented challenge.
You get the kit made by our creative designers

collaboration kit "Waiting for winter"

This is a fantastic kit with 50 papers and 145 elements and the prize does not stop there, you still receive a gift certificate worth $ 10.00 U.S. dollars for you to get the kit or element you want in our store.
Finished? Noooooooo!!!
There is more, because with the purchase of $ 10, what you do with that gift certificate you will still receive our free with purchased from December.

Run to the CPD, by clicking here and read the rules of the challenge, to agree and sign the rules of the challenge and good luck!