Flying Whale Bus Realistic-ish Digi-Painting

I'll upload the concepts and silhouettes in my next post, but this focuses on a digital painting I did in about an hour and a half/45 minutes roughly. I gave myself 2 hours but I brought it to about where I wanted to bring it in a little less time.

There is a youtube channel called "FZDSCHOOL" which gives tutorial for rendering concept work and just various techniques, and I was facinated when a professor showed it and it set off light bulbs and I decided to try the technique which I wasn't familiar with, so I decided to try to render my creation in a realistic way, even though for the work of my webcomic, which this design is doubling for, it will not be done in a realistic style.

this is a resize, original is on 11 x 17, which I may print this out at kinkos when I print my project for background and layout, which this is also being used for. I'll have the specifics on the design itself in my next post. Without further ado, the creation itself!

For learning new techniques and tricks (and photoshop keyboard shortcuts) in  my first try at this, I'm very pleased with it. I'll definately be testing this out again and jumping back and forth between my favorite program, Paint Tool Sai, and Photoshop to try to experiment with different ways to render these digi-paintings.