Before I begin painting on the final canvas I need to work out what the final composition of the landscape will be – The generated image is quite interesting and a great base to work with, but I need to interpret a more defined composition from that. I especially want to add more depth to the piece and the computer does not really work in foreground/background, it is mostly just on one flat plane.
Printed the image out and drew over it with a thick pen – trying to figure out what I want to change and how I want to interpret certain things. My main focus is on trying to add some foreground element to the right – I want a closer portion to work with so I can have a bit of closer detail and show off some of my characters/plants or whatever I create.
Next I worked in digital to get a range of values for more depth.
Overlaying the generated image and adding in some colours and photo textures to get a better sense of how the composition will work as a final image.
Keeping it quite rough at this stage – I am using this just as a guide to figure out the overall composition and placements of major elements, perspective etc.
VCD 453 - Jason Fastier 