Making The Visit - Backgrounds

Today I've made a painted version of the Oksana family home sketch I drew yesterday. What I did was pull the photograph of yesterday's sketch into the ArtRage paint program as a tracing layer. Then I followed the original with the program's pencil tool. After that, I made many layers for the different colors of paint and filled it all in. It is important to get comfortable with using very thin watery layers of paint. For instance, the roof of the house is painted on three layers. One for the pencil lines of the straw, one for the dark brown paint, and one for the light tan paint. Using layers, I don't have to be too careful not to mess up what I've already painted on another layer.