Autumn's Decay

ok...this is an image I was making for the 2nd "Learning to Paint" tutorial articles. It was supposed to only be a background, and I have it saved as such for the articles sake, but it sorta turned into more over the course of about 12 hours.

Everything is hand painted from scratch except there is a very tiny bit of paint over on the skeleton, mostly referenced, (from sxc) - I was so annoyed at the image and tired at 5:30am that I got lazy! lol - so 99% hand painted oh and for the tutorials sake I did try out a grass brush so I could recommend that as well. [link] & [link]

I went through the entire tutorial by `jezebel for the trees, I wanted to make sure I could do it before recommending it in the tutorial article.

I worked on the article off and on for 5 hours today, it should be done tomorrow The walk through to create this background will be in the tutorial - so theres a little hint on what we will be doing!

Oh and since this was meant to be a quick speed paint (which it turned into WAY more) this is actually the original size of it! lol