Making of It's a New Worldby Vinod Shantaram More, India
Then I started painting things more close to the final output. First of all I transformed high resolution circuitry design to different sizes and shapes of different leaves and used with overlay layer option then retouched individually after merging down with leaves. Then I worked on, depth of field and placed supporting elements like monitor, creepers with plugs and pins connecting them. By this time my thought was very clear. I wanted nothing to be standing out, apart from a small plant. But at the same time I wanted all other elements to work as supporting actors. This took me really long time; finding right place and focus for every single object. For example I must have moved the monitor 20 times before placing it were it is in the final composition. I spent good time working on the stem for photorealism and getting the perfect SSS for it.
By this time I was pretty much fine with BG, color, light and composition, then I moved to my main actor, the fresh plant. I went in to maximum details that I was looking for, so I dressed up the surroundings accordingly. At the same time I was getting an idea of a fallen dry leaf. I took the existing leaf and tried to make it work and I was almost done with image. It was 8’o clock in the morning and I was working whole night on it. After tea I had another fresh look at it, meanwhile I asked few of friends to comment on it. As a result they like the piece but I got a confused reaction on dry leaf. That was it!
Without wasting much time I removed that leaf and gave it another try. Now I placed everything in the background and concentrated on the creeper, where I wanted to add some more leaves. Separating the cables\ creeper from the entire picture helped me a lot to think and focus. Now I worked on maple leaf and placed it around with little bit of tweaking to avoid stamping feel. Then I worked on the dry part to make it look close to natural look. Then I blurred it according to the placement. It is not only birth or growth, but ageing and death that makes nature so beautiful and touching as compared to manmade world.
I was very happy to add this last thought to my painting, without which this piece would have been incomplete.......
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