Post by Amelius on Jul 14, 2005 15:33:49 GMT -5
I'll be adding on to this more, it is is a bit complicated.
To start off, pick the base color, or saeveral colors, this will be in the very back, so we don't get white lines and gaps. Do what you want with it, if you want to draw simple trees and shade here go ahead, the more detailed the better, if there happens to be gaps!
Now you will have to make leaves. this will require either drawing leaves in various positions, or using the leaf brushes. you can edit the angle and angle, size and even color jitter.
A good way is to draw your leaves on a seperate layer (yes this will take a LOT of layers to produce)
if you are using the leaf brush, simply click once and pick the best formed of what appears, delete ones tha overlap or are too small.
zoom in close and add details: veins, shadows, highlights and what have you. good brushes for this are the one we made for hair or the hard round bristle brush. Set the color mode to multiply r screen accordingly, using the base color of the leaf. we don't want them to be too shiny so avoid the dodge/burn tools.
Now, after the leaves are colored, arrange them either with copy-paste or if you drew several anyway just arrange them naturally. even edit the angles using the transform-distort option. after you have grouped these, we will be copy-pasting these leaves all over. we don't have all day to draw leaves of course ^_^
Now, after these look good enough, we move on to the next phase with the leaves: take out the magick wand, and depending on how close together your leaves are, this should work, select a certain area of the leaves, it should select about half of it depending on how close they are. now set what you got on another layer. Do this for each color so they are different. You can also edit the color by going to images:adjustments:hue/saturation.
this will be our other set of leaves. For weeds, bushes, do about the same thing, zoom in and edit the pixels with the smudge tool to make the leaves appear more individual.
Changing color will help set leaves apart from eachother from tree to tree, ads well as adding shading under leaves afterward with the burn tools. I can also suggest using the paint brush, set to multiply, with a dark grey-denim blue. lower the opacity before this of course.
After a nice thichk layer of greenery, we need trees right? just make a brown trunk, scribble the bark on (or if you want, make a brush with the bark texture to make simply brush the bark on) and set the shadows and highlights on that, you can use the same trun a few times even. Just be sure to make the branches different. use the smudge tool to make those after you shade and highlight the trunk. it'll look nice trust me ^_^Do a few different colored trunks to mix it up. mess with sizes and thickness.
now we select those leave behind them, or do like we did previoulsy with selecting a certain color amongst them. we will bring this new layer to the front and repeat the process, but not so much to cover the trunk. Focus on branches and along the tops. use both versions of the leaves: the detailed ones we made earlier, and the copies of the selected colors.
as long as you lasso the layers before you copy/paste you shouldn't run into trouble of having a gazillion layers to contend with.
(fast way to copy/paste: afer selecting, hold down ctrl. click mouse on selected image and move.)
now for the ground! igf you want more dirt, pick a few brown colors and just mess with it with brushes, use multiply and such. you can even make a brush for pebbles using the brush editer on the right side of the photoshop's window, just use a regular round brush and just add spacing and mess with the size and color jitter. aplly as needed, using different colors of brown.
Grass: Now this can be done over the dirt or on its own,
make a formless blob of varied green hues on a seperate layer, then use the smudge tool to seperate it into seperate blades of grass. zoom in and add shading and highlights if you want too. to keep it from all lookin the same. make at least 2 seperate layers with the grass, smudging it in different directions. some of the leaves should even curve downward. we will be copy/pasting the heck outta this too, working from the back to the front as the layers work. rezising and flipping directions also helps making it look unique. if you used enough colors or shading, the b;ades of grass should be distinguishable against eachother.
I hope this isn't confusing, i'll get back to this in a bit, as i can barely type more than 3 words now without this $%^& computer cutting me off.
To start off, pick the base color, or saeveral colors, this will be in the very back, so we don't get white lines and gaps. Do what you want with it, if you want to draw simple trees and shade here go ahead, the more detailed the better, if there happens to be gaps!
Now you will have to make leaves. this will require either drawing leaves in various positions, or using the leaf brushes. you can edit the angle and angle, size and even color jitter.
A good way is to draw your leaves on a seperate layer (yes this will take a LOT of layers to produce)
if you are using the leaf brush, simply click once and pick the best formed of what appears, delete ones tha overlap or are too small.
zoom in close and add details: veins, shadows, highlights and what have you. good brushes for this are the one we made for hair or the hard round bristle brush. Set the color mode to multiply r screen accordingly, using the base color of the leaf. we don't want them to be too shiny so avoid the dodge/burn tools.
Now, after the leaves are colored, arrange them either with copy-paste or if you drew several anyway just arrange them naturally. even edit the angles using the transform-distort option. after you have grouped these, we will be copy-pasting these leaves all over. we don't have all day to draw leaves of course ^_^
Now, after these look good enough, we move on to the next phase with the leaves: take out the magick wand, and depending on how close together your leaves are, this should work, select a certain area of the leaves, it should select about half of it depending on how close they are. now set what you got on another layer. Do this for each color so they are different. You can also edit the color by going to images:adjustments:hue/saturation.
this will be our other set of leaves. For weeds, bushes, do about the same thing, zoom in and edit the pixels with the smudge tool to make the leaves appear more individual.
Changing color will help set leaves apart from eachother from tree to tree, ads well as adding shading under leaves afterward with the burn tools. I can also suggest using the paint brush, set to multiply, with a dark grey-denim blue. lower the opacity before this of course.
After a nice thichk layer of greenery, we need trees right? just make a brown trunk, scribble the bark on (or if you want, make a brush with the bark texture to make simply brush the bark on) and set the shadows and highlights on that, you can use the same trun a few times even. Just be sure to make the branches different. use the smudge tool to make those after you shade and highlight the trunk. it'll look nice trust me ^_^Do a few different colored trunks to mix it up. mess with sizes and thickness.
now we select those leave behind them, or do like we did previoulsy with selecting a certain color amongst them. we will bring this new layer to the front and repeat the process, but not so much to cover the trunk. Focus on branches and along the tops. use both versions of the leaves: the detailed ones we made earlier, and the copies of the selected colors.
as long as you lasso the layers before you copy/paste you shouldn't run into trouble of having a gazillion layers to contend with.
(fast way to copy/paste: afer selecting, hold down ctrl. click mouse on selected image and move.)
now for the ground! igf you want more dirt, pick a few brown colors and just mess with it with brushes, use multiply and such. you can even make a brush for pebbles using the brush editer on the right side of the photoshop's window, just use a regular round brush and just add spacing and mess with the size and color jitter. aplly as needed, using different colors of brown.
Grass: Now this can be done over the dirt or on its own,
make a formless blob of varied green hues on a seperate layer, then use the smudge tool to seperate it into seperate blades of grass. zoom in and add shading and highlights if you want too. to keep it from all lookin the same. make at least 2 seperate layers with the grass, smudging it in different directions. some of the leaves should even curve downward. we will be copy/pasting the heck outta this too, working from the back to the front as the layers work. rezising and flipping directions also helps making it look unique. if you used enough colors or shading, the b;ades of grass should be distinguishable against eachother.
I hope this isn't confusing, i'll get back to this in a bit, as i can barely type more than 3 words now without this $%^& computer cutting me off.