@daring-celt 7 December 2021

Digital art_2020. El Condor pasa Hi friends! This painting has a special story. It dedicated by the song **"El Condor pasa"**. I love the music of Simon and Garfunkel, and this is my second attempt to illustrate one of their songs. How I drew first illustration, I told hier https://read.cash/@daring-celt/sound-of-silence-illustration-to-song-9fbf4b2a

Sketch (drawing in **Paint Tool SAI**) This is an author's composition, created by my imagination only. I imagined a beautiful mountain landscape with a condor flying over a fog-covered valley right into the sunset

Steps For this painting I chose base colorful color palette like a sunset (with **Gradient** tool)

Then I drew a sky with evening clouds I use two my own **Clouds** brushes for it with different options

So, I sketch a sun location

With cold bright colors I drew a protruding cliff top in the middle ground.

I draw the distant mountains with less detail and choose colors close to the colors of the sunset. Yes, I drew it with my base drawing brushes - soft **Oil Brist 2** and hard **Ink Pen**  (*Different versions of SAI have different settings for brushes, I give those that I set myself*)

Then I start drawing the bird and the foreground. According to my idea, on the left you can see a fragment of a rock with a waterfall and a typical mountain tree with a curved trunk. At the same time, I determine the location where the flying condor will be located.

I work especially carefully with the lower left corner, this is the foreground, it should be as clear and detailed as possible (*using the same* ***Old brist 2*** *and* ***Ink Pen***)

Drawing a mountain fog. I wanted to draw it as a beautiful pale color stripes (with **Oil Brist 2**)

Drawing a stripes of fog with separate swirls (*use one of* ***Clouds brush***)

Details Waterfall and flying bird Bright splashes of water and glare from the sun to create volume

Dry tree on a foreground

Now I use soft Eraser and erase a part of fog strips around a middle rocks. Drawing is almost ready...

Last step is finally color correction and some sharping in **Photoshop**. Yes, it's ready now!

Thanks for your attention! I hope fans of the famous musical duo will appreciate my artwork ;) Regards Many thanks to my sponsors @Belozoriana and @Arte-macarre for her support to all my drawings!