"Standing Rock Peacock"

A fascinating process, demonstrating digital's ability to change things easily.  I was wondering how you decide on your composition at the very first stage.  I'd imagine drawing a number of thumbnails with different layouts in pencil, but perhaps you can do that entirely with the digital app.  At the initial stage are the various elements already on different layers, the peacock, rock, trees etc, so you can move things around to try different layouts? The changes are interesting to observe.  The tufts of grass in the foreground mostly changed for rocks.  The various broken rocks around the base of the pillar rock.  The rock itself.  I particularly like the trees.  I understand that you can make brushes for leaves, or groups of leaves...is that what you mean by a 'stamp' brush?  You said you need to collapse the layers before saving.  Doesn't your app allow you to save the file with the layers intact?  My knowledge of digital is about 25 years old, my ancient version of photoshop elements allows me to save the layers, something I find very useful in making changes...maybe this isn't necessary with modern digital software and you can change  things anyway? A great result Eric.  Thanks for sharing.

Nice artwork indeed, lovely colours throughout, shadows making things look natural, and it’s interesting composition. My weakest point regarding digital arts is ~ layers… I’m aware how to use it in advance, but because I’m not practicing, it always becoming out of my comfort zone. Well done Eric. Art.