My experience in creating Photoshop Pastel Painting was enjoyable. I learned how to get the exact color from an image without eyeballing and getting the same color. I am still very new and learning how to use different brushes, but I am very happy with my pastel painting. Personally, this project was more challenging than the mandala because I had to be much more precise with my brush strokes, while with the mandala project, I was able to let loose and draw freely.
I value the experience and the new tools that I have learned through photoshop. This project was different from the mandala but just as fun. I enjoy the creative freedom of allowing myself to pick the photo I want to paint, but it was complicated to stay between the lines and recreate the image through a brush. I also value the skill of perseverance and dedication. I restarted multiple times during my painting, but eventually, I was able to get the painting even though it was not perfect.
Though I am a first-year freestyle student, I feel as if I could pick up and do the projects well. With each project, I was able to gain more knowledge on how each different adobe application works and the patience to retry doing a project consistently. It was straightforward to follow directions and often very peaceful to color in the image as a digital artist. This project brought me back to my childhood of painting in coloring books. I noticed that the pastel brush was not smooth around the edges, which created small cracks between each stroke which was very tedious because I had to fill in every hole and crack from the background.
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