Greetings cards

Polygonal art

Following our lesson on polygonal art, I thought I would use my image as a Christmas card design.  I am intending to create other cards with polygonal art on them.

I chose a fairly low resolution image which made creating the polygons fairly straightforward and not too time consuming.  I couldn't work out how to fill in the gaps between with the brush (I have since learned where I went wrong), so I went over the whole image with larger overlapping shapes.  Then I created a foreground shape for the bird to rest on, and selected a noise filter.  Then I imported a photo of snow on the top layer, copied some extra snowflakes with the clone tool, and set the layer to lighten.

Another robin, following similar steps to the previous one.