SHILL Issue 52

Periodically I’ll bring partially complete pieces in to Photoshop to see how they’ll look with differing
colour and texture effects and how I should be adjusting for those (I also use it basic text like the
background if the Illustrator files are usually getting too large/slow).
Then I’ll take what I like from the quick adjustments in Photoshop and go back to build them in to
the piece in Illustrator, in this case it meant expanding the canvas to around 18000px and using
that space to build a more organic bloom to the flock of braille birds. Eventually I get too final colour
and contrast adjustments in Photoshop. And this is where the piece currently sits, merging visuals
of nebulas, ocean currents, and the flight of the starling. I’ll keep working on it after a few days
break to refresh my eyes and mind.
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