We´ll need snow, for this task I´ll use the round brush (1), set scattering a little higher. With diffrent colours and hues (brown,grey). Now let´s fill in the background, to give the mountain substance. The great thing about this technique is that, the structures crystallize automatically. Keep to the angles of the mountain, otherwise it will look odd.

Onwards to the creation of mountains: Firstl of all, we paint in a rough shape, and lay out a coarse silhouette. Pull the cloud fringes and *squggle* them, to get a turbulence kind of look.ĭepending on preference or necessity use the graussian blur filter on the cloud, About 0,6px should do. To finish it off, ever so lightly pull the smudge tool from left to right (vertical 2 inch brush) Then lightly pull the colur upward with the smudge tool, while doing that make a half circular motion. (normal round brush / fan brush (right corner) with a soft edge setting) Paint in a few details, here and there, with white or dark blue colour. You can use a round brush with airberush setting for this. That´s why, I´m going to give the cloud a shadow colour on a lower layer (Photoshop layer). Looks pretty good already, don´t you think? Ißm not to happy with the lower part,though.

If it becomes to weak in contrast, paint in some more white colour. Otherwise you´re cloud will turn into the flying blob. Used brush: round brush, smudge tool, Weight: 40 - 60% (for graphic tablets)įor the mouse users, a setting of 20-30% would be adequate, for lack of control, and brush over the cloud multiple times.

Now I start using the WB (woriking brush): simulates the right side of the fan brush (above image(3))Īnd paint the top of a cloud with circular strokes, consider the shape of the cloud and where you´re light source is commnig from.Īfter this, we ever so lightly pull the colour in upward strokes. Because you get more facets and structure in the gradients. Of course, you can save yourself some work, by using the gradient tool. This smooths out the brush strokes an you achieve a homogeneous gradient. Next Step is to apply the motion filter, vertical direction. The important thing to remember is to apply the colour top to bottom, wheras the dark colour would be at the tob and the light colour at the bottom. Gradually from dark blue to light turquoise, or any colour you fancy. Futhermore I use this brush for the needles and branches of evergreens.ģ) I use these for hair strands, especially if I´m trying to create realistic hair.Īpply the colour row for row with an airbrush. I use this one for certain types of waves and in general the water surface. Play around with them, to find the setting that suits you best.Ģ) Simulates a fan brush. I don´t have any specific settings otherwise.

The brushes that I use in this tutorial (Photoshop) are as follows:ġ) Simulate rounded brushes or 2 inch brushes. Here is a small tutorial about one of the methods, how I make backgrounds of my pictures.

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