How to Create an Environmental Painting in Photoshop

How to Create an Environmental Painting in Photoshop
How to Create an Environmental Painting in Photoshop
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Now here as you see I am coloring the tree and the sun and painting at the top of the image with a dark brown and some dark red colors. I'm sure you have noticed I haven't painted the alien character. I'm not painting this character at this step. I'm going to began coloring this character at the next part.

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At this step I have opened a new layer with the name of "grassy" it is for the background of the greenish area. I paint dark colors at the bottom of the trees and with yellow color I paint area of the sun. At the next step I'm going to paint some nice green flowers and some tiny dots for to represent imaginary flowers and green grass.

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Now I paint more dark areas on a new layer . Name of the new layer is "dark_green " as you see.

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And at this step I would like to change the size of my file because I'll begin to add more details so I need a bigger file size. I do wish my file is to be more bigger size because at this stage I do think I can't make so much detailed painting. So I open Image/Image Size.

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And make the settings as you see.

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Step 3: Quick Detailing

Now I can continue to painting with this bigger file size. I'm more more comparable on painting. I continue to paint more green grass. On the top of my "back" layer there is a new layer as you see. I have merged the other layers together "back"layer. So now you see it is going to be more easy to paint with less layers. I paint some green grass and some darky areas on the ground.

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I also hide the "sketch" layer for you to see more details about the tree.

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Now I'm going to hide hide the "back" layer too. Look at the outline of the tree. At the next step I am adding more detailing to the tree branches and the leaves.

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And also I do add some strokes with the Dodge tool too. I use this because I want to add some slight light areas on the tree.

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When I do want to add some more light on the tree I am going to use color dodge tool. When you are using this option you must be very careful not to press hard on the pen of your table. With your pen tool you must very lightly touch on the tree branches. Don't use hard strokes.

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