Bridge To Tree

This was an exercise in patience, and as much a lesson in that as in drawing and painting. I wanted to think this painting was finished before it really was, a number of times, but I kept going because I knew it wasn't completely developed before. I think it is now. It started as a pencil sketch and many of the details were improvised and grew to be a part of the finished work. Everything was done with Photoshop and my Wacom Intuos 4 tablet, except for parts of the bridge and the castle, which were created as shapes in Illustrator and then brought into Photoshop and painted over.