Painting Project part 2: Constellation edition.

So, for the actual project part of this unit, we were assigned to draw up some of favorite constellations.
Here are the ones I made and a short description of what they were about.

 This is Cetus the sea monster. It was believed that Cetus was trying to eat Andromeda, and that Perseus would come and save her. Today, Cetus is often depicted as a whale, as some say was the original intention of this shape.

 Columba is the dove that informed Noah of the end of the Great Flood. Overall, I think my sketch of this one turned out best of the three.

 Pavo is named after the original peacock from Greek legend. According to the story, Hermes killed a 100 eyed giant by the name of Argus. When Argus died, Hera put a lot of its eyes on a peacock.

painting project part 1

So, now we're showing off Photoshop's power as a digital art studio, as evidenced by the zebra from the previous post

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 Here we have one of my favorite thing's I've ever ever drawn, digitally or not. I am in absolutely in no way an artist, but this one turned out really well. I couldn't have done it without the tracing layer, of course.

 Here we have a little demo we made in class to show off vector selections. Nothing particularly unique about mine, but I thought I'd share it anyways.

Here we have a (fairly disgraceful) Van Gough replica. I wasn't quite used to custom brushes at the time and as stated above, I'm not much of an artist. I think its pretty good for what it is, even if the original is in a league of its own.