While working on the Casa Batllo project, I wanted to make some buildings really stand out from the ordinary – while still making them architecturally creditable and photographically realistic. I racked my brain for a few days and tried a few things, but I wasn’t happy with anything I had come up with. Frustrated by the limits of photography and photo-manipulation, I thought nostalgically back to my pure art days – where there are no limitations. I quickly got the idea that I should just do some freehand art – digitally. Then I can incorporate the digital art images into the main digital photo image. Voilà!
First of all I need to get some good (i.e. the best) digital art (painting) software, get a few books on it, get to grips with it, then proceed…