Sun shower

My main entry to 's Summer contest, and boy I bet no-one, not even myself expected something along the lines of this vibrantly-coloured surprise.

First, I was going to try and paint a scene in Photoshop, something deliberately in my older style, just nicer, such as an imporved version of Bihai beach. But wasn't happy with where it was heading, so I tried 3D but that just didn't cut it for what I had in mind...
So since I've been bitten by the vector bug, mostly due to posters I'm working on for a project in my Digital Media class, I thought why not make my first serious vector art attempt my entry for the contest...I think this was the best medium and style I could have chosen for such a theme too, and I think its good for an early attempt And was fun using my favourite combination of colours too!

Most was done from scratch, some parts of those swirly-leafy bits were vectorised by me, based on some images I found on another computer, so that gave me good pen-tool practice. Splattery bits ( always a winner in vector art ) are a free resource I founfd at BenBlogged.com, the rest was all just done myself purely out of imagination, hope this gets you in the North geared up for the onslaught of Summer, and I hope it warms up the Winter for those in the South like me.



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