First Matte Painting W.I.P

 

Above is the initial sketch on Photoshop

I then tried to quickly paint out an idea of where the lighting might be

I decided that the lighting needed to be a lot warmer, so I went back a bit in order to sort out the lighting more

 

 

After painting into the piece a bit more, I decided to increase the texture density through throwing lots of photographs at the painting.

Starting to paint into the photographs, I wanted to kind of work from the background to the foreground so I started with the mountains behind the castle.

 

 

 

After looking at artists like Noah Bradley and Feng Zhu, the mentioned it is a good idea to flip your image regularly to make sure the composition works both ways.

 

Still painting in detail, although the castle is by far still not finished I have decided to work on other parts of the painting to keep everything fresh

 

 

This is a closer version of the castle so far. much detail and structure needs to be added.

 

Overall progress is going well. It has taken slightly longer than expected as painting in detail is very time consuming. so far I would say I am about half way through, progress will be updated as it happens