Learn how to make a honeycomb with delicious golden honey drips in Photoshop and Illustrator.

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Preview of Final Results

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Create a Honeycomb Artwork Photoshop Tutorial

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Resources

• Boris Black Bloxx – DaFont

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Step 1

Create a New Document. 400px x 421px

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Step 2 Honeycomb

First we will create the honeycomb, create a new layer and name it ‘honeycomb’. First grab your ‘custom shape tool’ (U) and find the hexagon shape, place it on your canvas. Make sure the color of the shape is #ffcb05.

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Step 3 Layer Styles

Add these layer styles by double clicking your ‘honeycomb’ layer.

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Step 4 Highlights

Now we will make the honeycomb shine and glisten. Create a new layer name it ‘highlight’. Get your Paint Brush Tool (74 px soft round brush #FFFFFF) and place the brush in the center of the honeycomb.

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Step 5

Change this layer to Overlay

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Step 6

Create a New layer and name it ‘highlight 2’. Then grab a 7px soft round brush #FFFFFF and make a marking like so.

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Step 7

Grab your Smudge tool (22px soft round brush) and smooth out the highlight on both sides. The way I did it was that I started in the middle of the line and went outwards.

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Step 8

Change this layers Opacity to 57%

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Step 9

Also in this tutorial I have where there seems to be that the honeycomb is empty. To achieve this effect repeat steps 2&3 but add the layer style Satin.

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Step 10

Next, create a new layer and grab your paint brush tool (61px #000000) place it in the middle of the honeycomb.

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Step 11

Change this layer to Color Burn with an Opacity of 71%

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Step 12

Now repeat steps 6-8 to add the shine effect. Note: Change this layer Opacity to 39%

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Step 13

So now we have both of our honeycombs. I hope your image looks like mines.

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Step 14

Now prior to creating a new document place the honeycombs into their own groups (Click the Folder Icon>drag all layers pertaining to that item in the folder). Now create a new Document.

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Step 15 Background

Fill your background layer with #673606

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Step 16

Create a New layer and make sure that your Foreground is set to #673606 and your Background is set to #FFFFFF. Next Filter>Render>Clouds

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Step 17 Ripple

Then go to Filter>Distort>ZigZag and add these settings.

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Step 18

Change this layer to Divide

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Step 19

Blur this layer by Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur.

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Step 20

Create a New Layer. Grab a 750px soft round brush #fadc0f and place it in the middle of your canvas

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Step 21

Change this layer to Soft Light

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Step 22

Create a New layer make sure that it is the top layer. Fill it in with black #000000 then make sure the layer Fill is at 0% an add this layer style.

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Step 23

Now here comes the time consuming part. Drag over your honeycombs and duplicate them however many times you need and line them up as so. Note: Don’t forget to create gaps in the honeycomb.

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Step 24

Now it is best for you to merge the clusters that are connected to one another. In my case I will have 3 different layers of honeycombs. Now we will add a drop shadow to the honeycombs. Use this drop shadow for all of the honeycomb layers.

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Step 25

Your honeycombs should look like this

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Step 26 Text Effect

Now we will create the honey text. When I create my text I usually like to start it in a new document. So create a New document. It doesn’t really matter what size. The text I will be using is BorisBlackBloxx with a size of 155 pt and a color of #f5d610. Make sure you have clicked the Bold button.

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Step 27 Layer Styles

Duplicate this layer three times. On the first layer add these layer styles.

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Step 28

On the second layer add these layer styles. Move this layer 5 times to the left

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Step 29

Also move this layer 5 times to the left and add these layer styles

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Step 30

This is how your text should look so far

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Step 31

Next we will add the glowing lights, create a new layer and grab your paint brush tool (#FFFFFF 22px soft round brush) and align the circles throughout the letter.

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Step 32

Change this layer to Overlay

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Step 33

Now we will add some highlights and darken some areas. Create a new layer and active the selection from one of the letters. You can do this by clicking the image on the layer while pressing the ctrl button.

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Step 34

Now with a 35px soft round brush #FFFFFF (Paint Brush Tool) and paint on the outer top left edges of your letter like I did.

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Step 35

Change this layer to Overlay

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Step 36

Create a new layer and 6px soft round brush #FFFFFF and paint in some highlights like the image below

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Step 37

Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur of 2.9 pixels

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Step 38

Change the Opacity of this layer to 59%

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Step 39

Now lets darken some areas. Grab your paint brush tool (22px soft round brush #987b02) and darken in some areas on the letter.

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Step 40

Change this layer to Multiply with an Opacity of 39%. Once you have done this place all of these layers except the background in a Group (folder icon)

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Step 41

Now we are finished with our letter ‘H’ repeat these same steps for all the other letters.

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Step 42

Now transfer your letters over into your honeycomb

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Step 43

Create a layer mask for each group of letters (square with a circle inside icon). And erase parts of the letter that you want to remain behind the honeycomb. Note: I used a 22px soft brush

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Step 44 Honey Drips

Now we will create the honey drips. I made mine in Illustrator. Usually what I like to do is open my Photoshop honeycomb file in Illustrator so I know where my drips should go. Grab the pen tool and form your drips.

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Step 45

It is best to have each drip on a separate layer. Now transfer them over to Photoshop. Duplicate each drip layer. I will start with my drip on the right top corner. Select the top drip layer and add these layer styles. Note: Rasterize each layer and make sure that the top layer has a Fill of 0%

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Step 46

This is how it should look so far.

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Step 47

On the second layer we will fill it with #FADC0F with our paint bucket tool. Select the square next to the drip layer while pressing Ctrl then fill it in.

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Step 48

Add this Inner Shadow

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Step 49

On this second drip layer create a selection around the drip (Select the square next to the drip layer while pressing Ctrl) Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur

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Step 50

Change this layer Opacity to 50%

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Step 51

Now we will add some highlights to make the honey glisten. Create a New layer above both of your drips. With your paint brush tool selected (40px soft round brush #fadc0f) and paint in some highlights.

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Step 52

Blur this layer Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur

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Step 53

Change this layer to Screen with an Opacity of 66%

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Step 54

You may have to get out your smudge tool to smooth it out a bit more (67px soft round brush, Strength: 36%)

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Step 55

Lets take it a step further, grab your paint brush again (8px soft #FFFFFF) and paint in some more highlights

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Step 56

Grab your smudge tool and soften the lines. Change this layer Opacity to 26%

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Step 57

Now we will darken some areas. With your Paint brush tool (#987b02 soft brush) add in some dark areas.

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Step 58

Change this layer to Multiply with an Opacity of 22%

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Step 59

Go on to your other drips and add these same settings.

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Step 60 Honey Bee

Find yourself a free stock photo of a honeybee and add it to your image.

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Step 61 Shadow

Create a New layer, now make sure that this layer is all the way at the top. Grab a soft round brush a fairly large size 236px and paint black #000000 around the edges

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Step 62

Change this layer Opacity to 50%

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Final Results

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