“Landscape” by Dan LuVisi
Step 3:
With this step, I started to blend more colors and smudge some more. But what I also did was go over some of the, what felt like to me, empty spots with a soft brush. With the soft brush, I made my own little quick brush strokes for background clouds or to just simply fill in negative space. You don’t want all blue skies, but you also don’t want all brown skies either. You want an even mix of both, so one doesn’t weight out the other.
Step 4:
As we progress, I start off first with the left side and add some more brown colored clouds up top. After I’ve painted my clouds in the corner, I will go back to the paint brush and set it to Pen Pressure with just a simple Hard Brush. This is where I can start to block in some blues, beiges, and browns near the white spot. What I’m doing here mostly is just softly scribbling in spots here and there; you don’t want one solid cloud block, because technically clouds aren’t 100% solid, obviously. What I’ll do with the random strokes is just scribble lines back and forth to achieve a faded look (remember Pen Pressure is on).
Step 5:
Now we go back to the blending brush. Up in the right hand corner, I’ll blend the colors together, creating more of a faint cloud and not thick hard lines anymore. That’s why this brush is quite good to use! After that, you can detail your remaining clouds that you have started. You’ll notice a change in the left hand side of the upper cloud. A dark brown outline, which gives more depth to it rather than the flatness it, had before.
Step 6:
In step six, we’ll take a larger leap than before. This is a lot more of drawing than blending in this one. I used a size 9 brush, with pen pressure on and would eye drop colors from the image while marking lines and strokes over my clouds. Some will be for rays of light; others will just be for the lighter part of the cloud breaking through. As you can see though, I put some hard blues and light blues in there to break up the sky. Mostly near the focal point, I put some baby blue blobs up on top. At the bottom, I blended some of the colors together, while adding some new hues to the image. What those will be will basically break up the browns from the outer sky and cause a wall between the clouds and the soon to be landscape, which is painted dark brown at the bottom.
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