A couple of mornings ago I woke up with a scene in my mind’s eye and knew it was something I wanted to create. I saw desert, night sky and camels. I set to work last night.
Kerstin Frank & The Graphics Fairy
But I did not discover Kerstin‘s textures above till this morning and was convinced I could do something with two I already had.
So what happened, Sarah?
A happy accident. I put together two textures from Kerstin Frank that I had previously downloaded and experimented with blending. It needed more work to create even half the background I had envisaged but I decided to add the camel from The Graphics Fairy and take it from there. Yet I could not find the camel. I knew it was on my computer but it was already past midnight and I didn’t have the energy to search properly nor…
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