Creating 'Temptation'

 Earlier this month I had the idea of creating a drawing based on the events that occurred in Genesis chapter 3 when Eve and Adam are tempted into eating the fruit. This project would differ from the usual portrait drawings that would primarily focus on the face and not the background or any other part of the body, as it contains a complete landscape and two figures. Considering I somewhat 'branched out' from my usual style of drawing, I was more than satisfied with the final product.

I began with a quick sketch of the background with one of the figure references to find an initial layout I enjoyed.

I then drew both Adam and eve in their own individual canvases using the references that I found to be good for the composition.

Once both of the figures were complete, I began to draw the full picture in its entirety in ibisPaint X. Each of the figures weren't too difficult for me to draw as I already had good experience in figure drawing.

When I started drawing the greenery in the background, I was displeased with how it was all going. The grass and bush textures looked very drab, dull, and completely unrealistic in an artistic sense.

This problem and dissatisfaction had led me to look up a more efficient way to draw things like grass, bushes, and trees. I ended up find a video on YouTube by user Devin Elle Kurtz titled Painting a Field Free brush-set. In it, she explains a technique of drawing greenery using downloadable brushes in Photoshop. Though I was using a completely different application for my drawing, ibisPaint X still allows users to create, upload, and download unique brushes in a similar manner to the iconic Adobe program.

After finding interest in this new technique, I had done a quick practice drawing using it in an all new art board to which I found myself to be pleased by the result. Afterwards, I would use this strategy in the actual canvas.

After all the sketching, planning, discovering, and drawing, I was finished with a product that has become one of my favorites.