“Landscape” by Dan LuVisi
Step 9:
The mountains in here are simple; I just used the same color as the ground, and first blocked them in. Certain shapes don’t all have to be the same but just mix it up a little bit. As the mountains go further into the background, they drop in saturation, so remember that. Once I have my mountains blocked in, you’ll have to highlight them from the sun beams, which will just be a lighter brown or so forth. Use a size 4 brushes, pen pressured, to scribble some light source on them.
Step 10:
In step 10, you’re going to be starting to smooth out the colors some more, bring down the hard shapes and just blending them over the other clouds. To do this, I used a soft brush again, and turned it on Flow. While lowering the Opacity to the slightest of 10%, you can really start to blend those hard edges in with the soft ones within a few strokes. We’re also going to use this step on the bottom, underneath the clouds. Mostly that giant dark blue blob across the bottom layer. In step 9 they look way too hard to be in the sky, so we need to patch those up, by again going over in strokes. As you can see, I’ve also gone and shaped the bottom mountains again, just keeping them formed and not thrown in there. I’ve also gone ahead and added some more negative space to the clouds on the right side and at the top, so they don’t hog up the entire picture.
Step 11:
Now you might be thinking, ‘whoa where did that bottom come from?’ Well I decided to open the picture more, so it’s not so one sided, and I obviously took some inspiration from the Route 66 drive. So by doing that, I cropped a larger half at the bottom into the picture, and then used a hard brush to fill in my colors. To extend the perspective, I added some phone line towers down the road; it gives it a longer feel. In the clouds I wanted to add some bloom to the cloud. By doing so I use a soft brush set to screen, and pick a pretty pale blue to fill in those negative space spots in the clouds, as if the sky is pushing itself through. Also the main focal point, the white, I blotched in some other colors because the white felt too strong to me.
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