04-23-2011, 12:58 PM
Gary,
I know you're dead set against photo cut-outs, but I don't think the edges would give you the trouble you think they might since you are dealing with sharp corners and straight edges. It's the color and light values that may be the troublesome part - getting them to match what you've already painted. Perhaps some blue/gray washes could serve to blend them in.
Even so, I think you could pull it off using printouts of the structures cut and pasted to the backdrop, then painted low-level structures on a single strip of matte board pasted to the backdrop overtop of the skyscrapers, along the bottom edge of course.
Galen
I know you're dead set against photo cut-outs, but I don't think the edges would give you the trouble you think they might since you are dealing with sharp corners and straight edges. It's the color and light values that may be the troublesome part - getting them to match what you've already painted. Perhaps some blue/gray washes could serve to blend them in.
Even so, I think you could pull it off using printouts of the structures cut and pasted to the backdrop, then painted low-level structures on a single strip of matte board pasted to the backdrop overtop of the skyscrapers, along the bottom edge of course.
Galen
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