Create a beautiful illustration spring scene with photoshop
This time im inspired much with drawing. This tutorial is not hard, and
you just need basic photoshop skills to make it.
1. Create a new document and fill with color 8DDAF8.
2. Create a new layer, use soft white brush, opacity 80% and 50% to paint on the pic:
3. Create a new layer, use Elliptical Marquee tool to make a circle:
Hold the Shift key, continue with some different size circles to make them look like a cloud:
Choose Radiant Gradient:
Drag a line:
4. Create a new layer, make another cloud:
5. Merge all cloud layers, Duplicate it then press Ctrl+T to resize it and move to left side:
6. New layer again, choose Elliptical Marquee tool to make a circle :
Choose Linear Gradient:
Drag a line from left to right:
We have:
This step is to make a hill 1.
7. Make a new layer, use Ellipticall Marquee tool to make a bigger circle:
With the same gradient tool but drag a line from right to left:
8. We continue with hill 3. With the same gradient setting, drag a line from bottom to top:
9. To make hill 4, we do the same method above:
Choose Gradient, drag a line from bottom to top:
10. Create a new layer, use pen tool to create a shape on hill 1:
After hitting Ctrl+Enter to make selection, choose Linear Gradient:
Drag a line from bottom to top:
We have first part of the road that runs through hills.
11. Create two new layers, use same method in step 10 to make other parts of road :
12. New layer, use pen tool to create a grass blade shape:
Press Ctrl+Enter to make selection, then set Linear Gradient with settings:
Drag a line from bottom to top. We have:
Duplicate it many times, transform them using different tools : distort, warp...
Then merge all grass layers. We will change a bit of color. Choose Image-Adjustment-Selective color Greens: 64, -39, 100, 100
13. Duplicate grass layer twice , resize, transform them and place them under hill 1 and hill 3 layers:
14. Create a new layer, use hard brush, 48 px and color ecdf21to make daisy pistil:
15. New layer again and set it under pistil layer. Continue with pen tool to make a daisy petal shape:
After making selection, fill it with white color. Duplicate it 4 times and place them around pistil. We have:
Merge pistil and all petal layers. Use Perspective tool to transform it:
16. Create a new layer and place it under daisy layer. Use pen tool to create a path:
Stroke path with hard brush, 6 px and color 57a312 then move it up to create daisy stem:
Merge stem and daisy layer. Duplicate it many times, transform them and
move them into different positions beside grass 1, grass 2 and grass 3.
Click to choose grass 1 and daisies 1( that are on hill 4), duplicate
them and move them to another side of the pic, distort a bit:
17. New layer, i use pen tool to make a shape path of butterfly wing:
Make selection then fill it with gradient:
The method is like steps above. We have:
18. New layer and place it under first wing layer. Use pen tool, gradient to make under wing:
Merge all these layers, duplicate it, apply Flip horizontal, transform a bit:
19. Continue with some new layers, with the same techniques, make butterfly head and butterfly antena:
20. Merge all butterfly part layers. Duplicate it twice, change color (
you can use adjustment color tools :selective color, color balance,...)
and move them to different positions:
21. Create a new layer, use white brush, hardness 40%, 2 px to spot on butterfly heads.
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