Blissful Satisfaction
As the third dawn slowly crawled upon the horizon I realized that today would be the day that I would have to finish the design of my diorama. I had left off with completing the frames for every layer in the previous day. This day however started off on a little bit of a stump. I was unsure on what I was really going to do. I had a strong fixture on the water reflection idea, but in order for that to happen there needed to be something in between the first tower and the water. Then I realized that I could add a classic Shinto gate to the front, and when I added that everything looked good. Next I added the water using lines. Since I had used lines, the trapezoid ended up becoming really uneven, and that would prove to be a consequence later. Anyway, I added the water, and added the reflections of both the shinto gate and the tower. After adding this I noticed that the layer with the shinto gate looked pretty bare, so I thought that adding a fence would look pretty nice. This took another big chunk of time because the parts that I chopped off of the fence that I traced didn’t fit in perfectly with the 7.5x7.5 frame. Then after that I had to completely re-do the gate reflection, and this is where the slightly uneven trapezoid came into play. Since the fence gate was symmetrical and the trapezoid wasn’t, in no matter what shape I cut the fence gate it would always come out uneven. I got really stuck and had no idea how to fix it, so I had to get Mr. Grisbee to redraw the trapezoid for me without deleting everything else and we managed to fix it. Even now the fence gate is still slightly uneven with the trapezoid. After that was completed after a long period of time, I now set my eyes on the final two things, a true first layer and the final layer. For the final layer I really wanted to add sakura branches because it would really fit in with the japanese theme, but I had no idea how I was going to implement them, and I also didn’t want to manually trace another image again. After a while I found an image that can actually be automatically traced by Adobe without horrible outcomes, and I pasted it onto the front of the diorama. At this point it already looked really good, but I still needed a background sky. I had been eyeing the gradient effect for a long time and now was the time to use it.After fiddling around with it for a little bit, I finally got the background I needed, and voila, it was complete.
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