Here is what I have so far… added the two new butterflies on the bottom and worked some more on the blossoms

After catching the flu and then ending up pneumonia, it has been a rough two weeks… and at this point I just want to be well and for the cold/flu season to be over and for spring to be here… don’t have the energy to do much actual work around the house so yesterday I played around with the battle image and today I just wanted to playing around doodling and this is what came out of it…

Figured if I actually posted it on the NAPP forum boards and here as a project I might actually manage to follow through and finish it so here goes

Here is after spending some more time on the blossoms… I’m planning on putting two more butterflies on the lower half… Colors in the corner are swatches I’m using for the cherry blossoms…

This past fall I joined some other members on the  NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) board in doing a doodle from start to finish. This blog was one of my oringal blogs on mySpace and I’m now posting it here… I haven’t worked on it since Sept…

Here is the starting doodle… it is all via imagination… I have recently watched Memoirs of the Geshia so it was an influence… movie wasn’t bad as a movie but the book was much better…

Filled out a bit of the color in the second one and that was the status as of 31 July.
Snapshot 3 is from 1 August.

Worked a bit more on the bridge on the right and the water… still playing around with different brushes etc trying to get textures and tones I want.

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