An update on the ‘ol artefact. Going well. I’m about 7-8 hours in now, and I’d say maybe about halfway through. Ish. I have a week to get it finished, so should be ok. Previously, I had drawn out my tree using the polygonal lasso tool, as I wanted it to look enough like the tree in the original, and I didn’t want to spend ages hunting around for a tree in a very specific shape so I could take a photo of it. Yesterday I started tackling the leaves, and they’re rather a pain in the arse, as you have to do a lot of cutting out and masking to make sure some of the background gets through, convincingly. Looks ok at this resolution but close up, they’ll need more work still. Today, I did a bit more of that, and textured the tree using closing up photos of tree bark, plus I added the grass and bushes. The clone stamp tool came in handy for the grass. Some of the colours are looking a bit too bland at the moment, which goes against the Satoshi Matsuyama way, but it’ll all come together when I add the other elements.