{"id":1117,"date":"2010-05-21T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2012-08-02T01:49:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T00:49:02","slug":"illustration-cherry-tree-panda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/illustration-cherry-tree-panda\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustration &#8211; Cherry Tree Panda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cherry Tree Panda\" href=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/raykitshum_2d_panda.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/_raykitshum_2d_panda.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry Tree Panda\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is an illustration called Cherry Tree Panda. This was created entirely from Photoshop with the aid of a graphics tablet.<\/p>\n<p>The idea appeared in my mind and thought the image of a panda chilling under a cherry tree would make a nice artwork. Before creating the piece I&#8217;d gathered some images on the net of cherry blossom trees and pandas for reference use.<\/p>\n<p>The panda was quickly sketched in with the outlines later refined to a cleaner look. The trees were drawn from scratch using a swirl brush type with brush scattering mode turned on. I&#8217;ve added drop shadows, outer and inner glows on the layer style to give some depth and presence on the blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>The background was created using a photo of my bedroom wallpaper which has a cloudy look, this was set to Soft Light on the Blending mode. I&#8217;ve also added a Noise filter which added some extra detail to the texture. With the base colour set to brown it created a nice leather-like appearance.<\/p>\n<p>A Vignette effect was added to darkens the surrounding corners of the overall image, this helps emphasize the focus on the main subject.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased with the final look of the piece, particularly on the panda&#8217;s pondering look and its relaxed body position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an illustration called Cherry Tree Panda. This was created entirely from Photoshop with the aid of a graphics tablet. The idea appeared in my mind and thought the image of a panda chilling under a cherry tree would make a nice artwork. Before creating the piece I&#8217;d gathered some images on the net [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[36,59,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}