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1. Intro: Hey, how's it going?
I hope you're having a very good day. I'm duplo, I'm an experienced
artist and designer, and in this small course I
want to share with you how to paint snowy pine
trees digitally. I've been enjoying that recently because here in Germany it's winter now and we got
quite a bit of snow also. It's pretty useful
to know how to paint snowy trees because you'll always have something to
put in the background of your artworks without
too much effort. But because painting
only one type of tree gets boring rather quickly, I thought, let's create five different trees showcasing
five different styles. That's what we're going
to do after this course. You'll be familiar with multiple
different techniques for creating snowy pine trees that you can utilize
however you like, whether it's painting a bunch of small background trees or a detailed foreground tree to put on a gift
card or whatever. As for the software,
we'll be using Creta, which is completely free and has these super awesome
RGBA brushes, which I also want to
showcase in this course. With these brushes, you can create very traditional
looking paintings. It almost feels criminal
that you can just use them for free because they
are literally so good. If you don't already have it, download Creta right now. If you're able to use Photoshop, you'll be able to use creta too. Problem. It's really
easy to understand and we'll only use
very simple functions. But if you have absolutely zero experience
with digital art, I recommend you first check out my short course
on using critter. I'll put a link to it
in the description. All right, Before I forget, using a drawing tablet
instead of a mouse to draw is definitely
not a bad idea. Your class project
will be obviously, painting these five trees. I hope my instructions will make this easy and maybe
even fun for you. All right, and that's
pretty much it. Open up, critter, and see
you in the first lesson.
2. The RGBA Brushes: Okay, here we go.
Welcome to the course. You should have Creta
open up right now. And it should look something
like this for you too, because this is pretty much the default user
interface of Creta. We have our toolbar right
here, the color selector, the layers, and the brushes.
That's everything you need. Now click on new file and create a new file of
whatever dimensions, just so we can check
out the brushes. As you can see, there are many, many cool brushes in Creta. But let's filter them and see
if we get the RGBA brushes. If you click on brush presets, we get the RGBA category. If you don't find these
six brushes here, then you have to
update your software. Otherwise, it's going
to be difficult to participate in this course. Make sure you have
these RGBA brushes, which you can get by downloading the latest version of Creta. Now, these brushes
are pretty nice, but they are not enough
for this course. We will also need the
RGBA wet brushes, which for whatever
reason, are not Creta. By default, we will have
to add them manually. But don't worry,
it's pretty easy. I've added a link to the course description that
says something like download RGBA wet brushes
where you can just click on and it's
going to download these brushes for free. You will have a file that you can save
somewhere on your PC. It really doesn't matter where. Download this file right
now and save it somewhere. Then critter. Go to Settings and manage
resource libraries. Right here. There you can click on Import, just search for the place where
you have saved your file, which is this file right here. Select this file
and click on Open. There is already a bundle
with this name installed. Do you want to overwrite it? Okay, Because I already had
these brushes installed. As you can see, these
brushes have already appeared down here in
our RGBA category. If the brushes are not there for you yet, then don't worry. Just restart creta and they should appear there, we have it. These are the beautiful
RGBA brushes that we're going to use to create
the trees in this course. Let's check out what they do. First of all, we've got
this brush right here, which makes these very big
and textural brush strokes that change the direction and are very rough and traditional. This brush is really useful for creating textures,
in my opinion. Then we have this brush which is a bit more dense and intense. It just looks like thick
real life oil paint, which is super cool. Then we got this which I
find a bit less useful. But if you want these
parallel lines, then you'll know
where you get them. After that, we got this brush, which is one of my favorites. It creates many
individual brush strokes even if you don't
manually paint them, and therefore, it's really
useful for creating textures and generally
traditional paintings. This brush automatically adds slight variations to
the hue and the values. Even if you don't manually change anything about the color, you can mix it very well
because with changing pressure, it changes its opacity. Then the next brush,
which is this one, is pretty much the same, but this brush changes
its size with pressure. This one also represents
thick oil paint, but you can create very thin
and thick brush strokes by changing the pressure
on your drawing tablet, which is useful to know. Then we got the last brush of
the default RGBA category, which is more like a
feature and not a brush. It lets you paint these cliffs or mountains automatically, but I find it a bit weird. Then let's move on to
the RGBA wet brushes. This is where it
gets interesting. Basically what you have to
know about these brushes is that they drag the paint
a bit like watercolor. You can make very
smooth transitions and textures with them. All you have to do is go
a bit back and forth with these brushes and you
will see how they react. Some of them are literally just wet versions of the
default RGBA brushes, and some of them are
a bit more unique, like this one right here
produces a different texture. Some of them don't
change that direction or they have no rotation if you
go around with your brush. Some of them have very
high contrast and they drag the paint
intensely over the canvas. Like this one right here. That brush is like the
most traditional brush that I've seen in any
drawing software. It has this artificial oil
paint texture, but it's wet. At the same time,
you can drag paint across the canvas with it
and mix colors very easily. Last but not least,
we have this brush, which is also not
really a brush. As you can see, if I paint on the canvas, it
creates nothing. But it's just for
dragging, paint, and creating traditional
brush strokes from already existing ones. You can basically use this brush to transform paintings of yours into like traditional
looking oil paintings by scribbling on
the whole canvas. If you're a patient and
motivated to do that, yeah, that's what we're
going to work with. Isn't it crazy that we just
get these brushes for free? I must say. I'm
very grateful for that shout outs to the whole critter
team and the people who develop these brushes. Now let's finally
use them for good and paint our first
snowy pine tree. See you in the next lesson.
3. Painting a Basic Tree: Okay, here we go.
Time for action. Do you have Creta
installed and opened up? Do you have the RGBA and
RGBA wet brushes activated? If your answer to both
these questions is yes, of course, please
don't waste my time. Then you're ready to
click on new file. Let's make a new file
with high resolution. I'm going to go
with 3,840 by 2160. But you can choose whatever you like as long as it's above say 2000 by 2000 because we want to be able to create
some level of detail. Other than that,
we're just going to leave everything as it is, just a very basic new file. And then let's click
on Create. Here we go. First of all, make sure
you only filter for the RGBA category in your brushes because that's what we're going to work with. We don't want to accidentally
use any other brush. Make sure you have that. Then
on our first paint layer, let's make a gradient. We have a little bit
of a background, select any brush, and then
click on the gradient tool. Draw a gradient right here. Then go to the color
selector and choose a dark blue and then a bright desaturated version of it,
something like this. And then drag the
gradient across the whole canvas from
the bottom to the top. You can hold down
shift while dragging the gradient to make it
perfectly straight, Okay? And there we have a nice simple
background for our trees. The thing is, we don't want
anything too detailed here, but this is just so
we are able to see the snow that we're going to
paint on top of these trees, make a new layer and
call it tree one. For our tree number one, we are going to paint
it with this brush. The second RGBA brush, then go to the color
selector and select a very dark and saturated
version of green. Like this decrease the size of your brush to
below ten pixels. Let's paint a
vertical dynamic line that indicates the
basis of our tree. All right, that looks solid. Now we can start painting the branches going from
the top to the bottom. Of course, they get bigger and bigger as we move downward. Group your branches together in small layers like this and make them point downward at
approximately a 45 degree angle. As you move downward, of course, the tree gets wider and wider. So you have to make your brush
strokes longer and longer. Every two or three layers make your brush a
little bit bigger. It gets easier to paint even though we put the
branches on layers, don't make them too geometrical and include a little bit of random detail like branches that don't perfectly fit to
one or another layer. All right, Just like that, you can create a very
efficient and easy, basic shape of a
coniferous tree. Now, let's add some shading. Select a slightly
brighter tone of green but still relatively dark. And then let's add some very rough brush strokes that follow the shapes
that the layers indicate, make them point downward and follow the directions of the
branches that they are on. But what's very important, make these brushstrokes thicker and more frequent
on the left side. So it looks like light
is coming from there. And by the way, it doesn't really matter
whether you start at the top or at the bottom as long as you take care
of the whole tree. Okay, In the end, I'm adding a few more or
less random brushstrokes to give the tree some detail to make it look more authentic. And then it's time to add snow, for which we are going to use
this very first RGBA brush. We are going to start with
the shadow parts of the snow. Select a tone of blue like this, somewhat of a mixture of
dark blue and light gray. Okay, then let's make the brush very small
and start at the top. Just brush strokes that
get bigger in size on top of each of these
individual layers, just like this, Make sure
as you move to the bottom that your brush strokes
are pretty thick so we can see the
texture of the brush. All right, now let's add the
bright parts of the snow. Of course, we're going to
select white as our color. Then we're just going to add another layer of
brush strokes on top of the tree that again follow
the shapes of the layers. But this time, let's make the brush strokes a little bit thinner than the blue ones. Let's add them on top
of all the branches on the left side and just a few in the middle that point
downward like this, make it look like light
is coming from the left. We want many white brush strokes on the left side and
none on the right side. That's most likely
the simplest way to create the illusion that this is a three dimensional object. Once you're done with
the rough white snow, let's move back to blue and let's make the brush
a little bit smaller. Just add a few thin
lines for detail. Then we're going to
do the same thing but with dark green. Add these ones on the
right side of the tree. In the end, just one more
layer with thin white lines, especially on the left side, of course, and a
few in the middle. Here we go, just a few layers
of brush strokes and we've created our first very
simple snowy tree. Let's add a little
bit of snow on the bottom using the same brush. Just a little bit of white and
then some blue for detail. Especially on the right side because we light
comes from the left. We have a bit of shadow
there, I would say. Now this tree is finished. We can take the
transformation tool right here and move this tree
over to the left side. We have space to
paint the other ones. This tree is definitely the most basic one that we're going to paint in this course. But this technique is
quite efficient for creating a bunch of background
trees for an artwork. Start by painting dark
green branches in layers, then add a brighter
green blue for the shadow snow and some
white snow In the end, if you want, you can just add more detail by adding
smaller branches. Nice, But in the next lesson, let's explore a more interesting
technique. Let's go.
4. Painting a Textured Tree: Okay, here we go,
tree number two. For this one, we are going
to make a new layer, and let's call it tree two. Once again, we are
first going to pick a very dark tone of
green, almost black. Then we are going to work
with this brush first, which produces many, many
smaller brush strokes. Let's make it very small and draw the base
line of our tree. Just a thin vertical
line like this. Make sure it's very
light at the top. Then we can start adding
the branches first, very light lines at the
top that point upward, literally just curved, upward
pointing lines like this. And make them wider and
wider as you move downward. But also they become a bit more horizontal at
the bottom because the branches get longer and
gravity pulls on them harder, They fall down a bit more than the short branches
at the very top. How it works. Also again, I'm making my brush a little bit bigger as I'm moving
to the bottom, but not too big because this brush produces
many small dots. As you can see, we want a relatively consistent
texture for the whole tree. If you make this too big, then there is too much
of a difference between the branches at the top and
the branches at the bottom, then the tree doesn't
look consistent anymore. Just vary the size of your brush very slightly as you
move to the bottom. All right, then let's add
a bit of shading by just drawing more lines in the middle where the
tree is more dense. Once your tree looks
something like this, it's time to add a
bit more detail. We're going to do this
with the next brush. This one right here. Select a tone of
green like this, which is a bit brighter than
the one you've used before. Then let's start adding
very thin lines with very low pressure on
the drawing tablet on top of the tree like this. The difference between
this brush and the other brush that
we've used on the tree is that this brush varies its size depending on how
much pressure you apply. This one is really
good for adding detail and branches like that. Make sure that you
put these lines not everywhere and you leave a little bit of space
between them. So it looks like this tree
has many layers of branches. Okay, then let's add a layer of branches that are a
little bit brighter, but not too many of them. After that, a layer of
very dark green branches, especially on the right
side, because once again, we want to trace
the illusion that light is coming from the left. All right, At this
point the tree actually looks pretty solid,
you see that way. You can just make it a
little bit more dense. And then you have a very easy, standard coniferous tree, which is quite useful
if you need that. But this course is about
painting snowy pine trees. What do we have to add of snow? All right, let's move
back to the brush that varies its opacity depending on how much pressure you apply. Because we want to start with some very smooth shadowy snow. Before we draw in the
more defined highlights, let's pick a dark, semi saturated blue
just like this. And add a layer of snow on all the branches on the right side of the
tree, only the right side. This time follow the shapes
that the branches form and put the snow on top of the individual branches
that you can see. When you're finished
with this part, select a brighter hue of blue and make it a little
bit more saturated. And then we're going to do the same thing as we've done before, but on the left
side of the tree, add a smooth layer
of snow on top of all the branches.
Okay, well done. You can already
see that this tree is very different from the
one we've created before, both in terms of technique
and the tree structure. Because this tree has more thin and upward
growing branches, now it's time for
the final details. Select a really dark tone of green and pick our second brush. Now let's add thin, short lines of shadow beneath all the
individual branches. And especially on
the right side. We have very nice contrast after we paint in
the white snow, which we're going
to do as soon as we've added these shadows, which is right now, select white as
your primary color. Leave the brush how it is. And then we're literally
just going to do the same thing as
for the shadows just the other way around. Add the snow on top of the individual branches and
especially on the left side. Make your snow less frequent the further you
are on the right side. In the end, you
should end up with a very nice and textured tree that has high levels
of contrast like this. Just by drawing a
few layered lines with these two brushes, we've created a snowy pine
tree that looks like it's made in pointillism or however this art
movement is called. I don't know, but I like it. Okay. Then just add a bit of
snow to the bottom by making our first brush of
this lesson a bit bigger and just scribbling
around with it. I absolutely love this brush
because it's so flexible. If you change its size, you make it big, it's very
smooth, you make it small. It's very pointy and detailed. It's just really good. Just like the brush
that we're going to check out in the next lesson. Once you have a
little bit of snow beneath it with a
bit of blue shadow, move your tree aside and
move on to the next lesson.
5. Painting a Detailed Tree: Tree number three. All right, this one is going to be good. Make a new layer and
call it tree three. Then select the second to last RGBA wet brush.
This one right here. This brush is so
useful and so flexible that we don't have to use any
other brush for this tree. Let's start and let's select a very dark green like
for the trees before. Once again, we will
make the brush very small and then start
with a single line. I'm going to make it go a
little bit to the left, like this. All right? We're just going to stick
with this brush and start painting branches
at the very top. You will immediately notice that this is a very smooth brush. It works a bit like watercolor. You can drag, paint and
mix colors very well, but we're going
to do this later. For now, let's just make very small and detailed
looking branches that go to the left,
into the right. Like this, they should all point downward and be very thin and almost transparent
on the sides. Which you can do by releasing the pressure with your brush. Once again, group your
branches together in small layers and make your brush bigger as
you move to the bottom. You should know this process
very well at this point. But I must say, with this brush, it's probably the
most fun so far. I'm really taking my time and
enjoying the process here because you can create detail very easily with this brush. It would be a shame
not to do it. As you can see, my brush
strokes are fast and dynamic. We have a very wild and chaotic looking
conifer in the end. All right, let's add
highlights by our green a little bit brighter and
the a little bit smaller. Once again, let's put most of these highlights
on the left side. As you can see, I'm
following the shapes of the branches that I
have already created. Put these highlights on
top of all these branches, and add a few downward
pointing ones in the middle. So we have a three dimensional
looking structure. Okay? That looks pretty solid. Now let's make the green even brighter and a little
bit desaturated. And let's start painting
some bright highlights, Of course, predominantly
on the left side. Now the cool thing is
that with this brush, it automatically mixes the
colors and makes it look very smooth when
there are already other brush strokes below it. Pretty much just one or
two brush strokes per branch where you want to
highlight should be enough here. In most cases you can see it pretty much
works out just like that. Now we've got a very nice
looking coniferous tree that's only lacking a
little bit of snow. Let's go to blue,
something like this. Again, a bit desaturated,
quite bright here. Let's start painting
the shadowy parts of snow on top of
all the branches. But this time, let's do it
a little bit differently. I'm following the
shapes of the branches with pretty much just one
brush stroke for each of them. Then I add downward
pointing lines like this. For the snow, it looks
like there's snow on the smaller individual branches
that are falling down. If you do this well,
the branches will start looking three dimensional. Keep your brush small, and add many smooth lines on top of the individual
branches that fall down. All right, now we can add
highlights to the snow. Let's switch to white and
make the brush even smaller. Then we're going to start adding many small lines that follow the shapes that we've
created with the snow. Make sure that
they're all a little bit curved and point downward. Just everywhere
where the blue snow, but not on the right side. That's where the shadow is. Slowly work your way downward. Add snow to every branch
on the left side, and make sure that
everything looks smooth, nice. Now, at this point, you could say that
the tree is done, but let's add a bit more detail. Make the brush very small, and let's start adding very
thin lines to the sides. All of these lines
should start on top of a branch and then fall
downward in a curve like this. Just like this, we
can make it look like this tree has many, many individual branches that all have a little
bit of snow on them. But because we've added lots
of detail to the left side, now we have to do
the same thing for the shadow areas on the right side to make
the tree consistent. Let's select a dark blue
like this as our main color. Then we can do literally the same thing on the
right side of the tree. Just add small downward
pointing lines like this. That's how we get
very easy detail in the middle that's neither clearly on the light
nor on the shadow side. We can just mix the white
and the blue lines. Okay, I feel like adding just a little bit
more white snow. There we have it. This
is tree number three, our most detailed one yet. Now let's add a bit of
snow to the bottom by switching to white and making the brush a little bit bigger. Then of course, some
blue shadows on the right side and some random blue brush
strokes in the middle. This always looks good on
snow for whatever reason. Here we go. This is
another way you can create snowy pine trees by using
literally only one brush. This brush is probably
the best brush for creating realistic
looking pine trees. At least that's what
I find it useful for. In the next lesson, let's create a more stylized tree using
crazier brushes. Let's go.
6. Painting a Stylised Tree: Tree number four. We're
going to make one that looks maybe a bit more
weird and abstract. Now we are going to combine different styles in this tree to showcase what you can
do with these brushes. Make a new layer and
call it tree four. Then we're going to
work with this brush, which is a texture brush. Go to green, dark, almost black once again. Then let's make this
brush very small paint, a thin line for the
basis of your tree. After that, start with
the branches at the top. We want this tree to
look very chaotic. Draw dynamic lines for the branches that go
in all directions. Start with upward growing
branches at the very top, and then make them more and more chaotic as
you move downward. Think about painting the
skeleton of the tree first. Just start with thin lines that indicate the general
shapes of the tree. Okay, once you got this, make the size of your
brush a little bit bigger and then just do
the same thing again. You can literally just paint over the lines that
you've already made. You will quickly notice
that this is a wet brush as the paint is being
dragged across the canvas. These brush strokes look very smooth but textured
at the same time. Once you're done with
this part of the process, make your brush a
little bit smaller and pick a slightly
brighter tone of green. Just paint a few smaller
branches on the left side. After that, make
the brush a little bit bigger again
and a bit brighter. Let's paint many, mostly downward pointing
branches in the middle. At this point, your tree
should become quite dense. You should be able to
see the texture that these brushes produce in
each of the brush strokes. Because if you look closely, there is quite a lot of contrast within the
individual brush strokes. And the tree already
looks detail that way. But of course, this
is not enough, so we're going to add
more detail ourselves. Let's make the brush smaller and the tone of green brighter. Then let's paint
many random lines. Make sure you make the tree look very chaotic at this point. Okay, then switch to almost black and paint shadows on the right side
by making many, many short and chaotic lines. This right here is the basis of our tree, very simple technique. We've made this tree
using long dynamic, mostly straight brush strokes. Now let's switch it up a little bit and do something
completely different just to showcase
that it's actually possible to combine different
styles with these brushes. Select this brush,
the wallop of it, and then pick some blue, not too dark, not too bright. Make the brush very small. And then let's start
painting the snow, starting at the top and
working down to the bottom. This time, we are not working with big and smooth
brush strokes, but many, many individual ones. Instead, this is why I was talking about combining
different styles. Because the snow for
this tree will be made with many individual checks that we put on top of the
individual branches that we can see equally on the left
and on the right side. But what's really
important here, make sure that you group these
checks together in lines, follow the shapes of the
branches and put them there. If you just place these
small checks randomly, then this will not look like
a real tree in the end. That's unfortunately how it is. Look where the branches are
and try to follow them. After you're done
and you've covered the whole tree with blue snow, switch to white and do
the same thing again, but only on the left side. Of course, because we still have the same conditions
with light and shadow. We want light on the left side and shadow on the right side. Okay, And that's it. We've definitely created a very unique looking
tree this time. Maybe not the most
realistic looking one, but I think it's
fine. Interesting. Let's add a little
bit of snow at the bottom utilizing the brushes that we've used in this lesson. Then we got our tree
number four finished. I'm pretty sure at this point
you understand how painting these snowy pine trees basically works like the basic structure, how you can combine the
colors with light and shadow, and how you can use different brushes to create
very different looking trees. In the next lesson, let's
make our final tree using very unique techniques and a bit more detail
this time. Let's go.
7. Painting a Christmas Tree: All right, tree number five. The last one of this course make a new layer and call it tree five. Who
would have thought? Let's select green
as our main color, but let's not make it
as dark this time. Then let's first
go to this brush, which produces a very
intense texture. You can use it to build
the tree right away without even drawing a line
that indicates its height. As you can see, if
you just click with this brush and
produce like a point, it already looks like the
branch of a coniferous tree. We're going to use
that two our advantage and just click
with this brush to build up a coniferous tree
with many individual layers. Just like this. No
actual brush strokes literally just click with this brush to produce
the branches. You will see this works very well as you arrive at the top. Make the brush a
little bit smaller so you can work more precisely. Okay, then let's add many small individual dots to the sides to make it look
a bit more detailed. And then let's switch
our brush to this one. It's pretty similar, but it produces a slightly
different texture. Make the green a little
bit brighter and paint another layer of branches. All right, after that, we'll have to make
it even more dense. Let's make the green a little
bit brighter once again. And let's put some
highlights on the left side. After that, let's
make the brush very dark and put some shadows
on the right side. You can vary the size of your brush to work
more accurately in some parts or to just give it
different levels of detail. Then let's make the
green even brighter, the brush very big. And then let's add
highlights to the left side. Just click on top of the
layers with the branches, you get these very rough and traditional
looking brush trucks that make it look like this
tree has lots of detail. Once you're done
with the highlights, we can do the same thing
again on the right side, by making the green very dark and putting
many shadows there. That's a pretty good and easy
to make coniferous tree. Well done now for the snow, let's switch the style and take a completely
different brush. This one right here. Select a desaturated
blue for your snow, and then we can start
scribbling the snow on top of all these individual layers of starting with a
very small brush, then making it bigger and
bigger as we move downward. This brush makes the snow
look very fluffy and round, a bit like individual
snowflakes. But let's not add too
much of the snow. Maybe just one line
on each layer and maybe just a few random dots
because we still want to be able to see the nice
texture of our tree. Okay, once you're done covering the whole
tree with blue snow, switched white, and
add some highlights to the left side on
top of the snow. All right, this is
basically our tree. It looks quite interesting
because of the combination of the different brushes and the different sizes
of the brush strokes. But it's still a snowy pine tree just like
the other ones, because this is our last one. Let's add something
special and let's transform this one
into a Christmas tree. We're first going to
work with this brush, our second standard RGBA brush, and select red for the candles, But honestly, you can
use whatever you like. I just think red candles always look very nice
on a Christmas tree, but you can also use like
purple or yellow or whatever. Yeah, let's add a
consistent amount of small brush strokes for
our candles like this. Make sure you put
them everywhere. Then after that,
we're going to switch to our very first RGBA brush. Select a bright yellow,
make it quite small, and then add
candlelight to each of these individual candles by twisting the brush
on top of them. You'll see that's a
very easy method. You can quite quickly
add candle light to each of the individual
candles that you've painted. All right, after that, let's add a bit of shading
to the candles by just drawing a
slightly brighter line on each individual one. It just looks like there's a little bit of a
reflection on them. Do this with the brush with which you've painted
the candles. After that, let's make
it completely white and add a small dot on
top of each candle. We have the candle fire. Okay, You can add more
decoration if you like, but I'm going to
finish it off by just painting a star
on top of the tree. Maybe you can paint
a better star than me, but I don't care. This is about trees. All right? And then let's add snow
for the last time. A little bit of white,
little bit of shading using the brushes that we've
utilized in this lesson. That's it. Here we have five very unique
snowy pine trees.
8. Class Project: Okay, this is it. We've painted one very basic snowy pine tree, one that is a bit more textured and has many, many
brush strokes. One that is more detailed
and three dimensional, one that is more
abstract and combines different styles and a Christmas
tree, because why not? I hope you participated and
have painted these trees. Now I'm going to show you what you can potentially
do with them, because this is obviously
not a finished art. You can of course, start
painting something else, like in the background,
in the foreground. But in this case,
let's just group them together and add a bit more
snow to the foreground. We can take the
transformation tool and move these trees around so that the snow beneath them overlaps. It looks like they are together. Then we can play
with the background, for example, we can go to the background layer and
delete the gradient. And then we can fill the
layer with dark blue. It looks like it's night. I think this works
very well with these blue shadows that
all of these trees have. If you can add more snow to the foreground by just
scribbling with your brush. First white and then
blue as I've shown you, just a little bit bigger, You can look around in Creta if you want to add something. For example, if you
activate all the brushes, there are texture brushes
that allow you to paint snow in the
air very easily. Or if you can play around
with a background and use gradients to make it look
like a sunset or something. At this point, it's up to
you make a very simple scene that you like where
you can clearly see the trees that
you've painted. And then you can
save your picture as a dog file and upload it
as your class project. I'm looking forward to seeing
whether this was actually helpful for you and you managed to create some nice
looking trees. Don't forget to leave
a review and tell me what I can improve
and of course, have fun painting snowy pine
trees. Have a good day.
Duplo, Designer, Artist
