Digital Art Masters: Volume 2

SUNBATHING

By MASSIMO RIGHI

INTRODUCTION

Photography has always inspired me, especially shots of nature and wildlife from the National Geographic magazines. I decided to use the American alligator as the subject for my project, perhaps because I’ve been always fascinated by reptiles (this species in particular has truly brilliant colors) and I wanted to really enjoy the modeling process.

I thought the title Sunbathing for my artwork would be nicely identified with the cold-blooded creature. What I wanted to achieve with my Sunbathing image, was ...