Digital Painting: 101

I have had my Wacom Intuos 4 tablet a little over a year (thanks to Full Sail), but I still haven't gotten very comfortable with it. For a school project we had to make a picture that illustrates a Walt Whitman poem.

I had to make one for "O Captain, Oh Captain!" I had a lot of fun drawing the thumbnail pictures in my pre-pro, but went with the theme below. I also added in pictures I took of the sky and the ocean, to create a bit of variety.

I had a lot of fun with this project, so I decided to play with painting in photoshop a bit more. I love how this piece came out, good enough to eat! YUM!