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Combine photos with illustrations

CREATING A MIXED-MEDIA artwork isn’t as simple as copying and pasting a few times over. Plenty of thought and time should go in to making sure that all the different elements work well together, and create a cohesive overall image. To prevent your art looking like a jumbled pile of stock material, make the different elements ‘interact’; in this image the hummingbird is feeding from the hand-drawn flower. Colour tone is also important here; the paint textures need to look like

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