2. Land.....scapes (Landscape Project)

We had to create at least 5 landscapes, using Photoshop CS5 and Corel Painter. I'd never known about most of the features of these programs that we used.

Artists we learned about: Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh

This, I painted with nothing to trace in Corel Painter. It is a similar rendition to the original scene, filmed in Doctor Who: The End of Time , Parts 1 & 2. (Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, though I wish I did)

In Corel painter, there is a setting called "Auto van-Gogh". We used it to make one of our landscapes resemble a Van-Gogh painting.

The very first landscape I made in Corel Painter, it is a simple mountain range meeting the edge of a lake. With a waterfall in the background. The sky is cloudy and gray, because that was the easiest option for a sky at the time.

And we begin with the Photoshop landscapes! We took images from Google Images (that are OK for reuse) and edited them so that they looked like a regular landscape. Then we made trees, and had to copy and paste them 3 times in 3 different colors. We also had to add shadows, which personally was the hardest part for me.

This was one I did extra, it's more of a seascape with a small peninsula in the corner of the image. I played with lighting effects to make it look like a sunset (even though thats where I failed in this picture).

My very first Photoshop landscape, this one has only one tree (since it didn't need three). You'll never guess what I used to make the sky!

This is one of my favorites, if not my very favorite. I re-created an image of the make-believe planet of Gallifrey, the lost planet of the Time Lords from Doctor Who (Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who). The only real picture I used was one labeled for re-use, with which I used to add in the Citadel of the Time Lords (the big glass ball with the city inside). This landscape was never in the show, since they never told of a lake on Gallifrey. Gallifrey has two suns, and everything is red and orange.

With the Landscapes came the color wheel! We learned a bit about colors, shading, and tones, which was crucial because we were beginning to "paint" landscapes. We also learned a bit about making curved text, which we'd used previously in the space scapes.