Digital Artist Pinilandok presented a new artwork and detailed the post-production process behind it.
Despite appearances, this fantastic painting, inspired by the most well-known piece of Spanish literature, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, is not a painting at all but rather a 3D render brought to life by the brilliant Digital Artist Pinilandok.
Depicting Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho gazing at a field of windmills giants, the scene was modeled in Blender and then made to look like a real-life painting during the post-processing phase with the help of Photoshop and FotoSketcher, a free program that lets you easily add painterly filters to photos or 3D renders. Fortunately, Pinilandok generously shared the post-processing workflow behind this illustration on Reddit:
And here are some of Pinilandok's earlier pieces, you can check out more by visiting the creator's Twitter and YouTube pages:
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