Simple Digital Landscapes: Illustrating Light and Texture in Procreate

1. Welcome to the class: Welcome to another gorgeous Procreate class where you will learn how to make this wonderful cabin on a beautiful field. This class is specifically designed for beginners. It guides you step by step and encourages you to create a beautiful project. Hi, my name is George, and I've been a professional artist for 11 years. Five years ago, I've fallen in love with teaching both online and in person classes. With over 20,000 wonderful students all around the world, I've developed this interesting way of teaching that focuses on the project and on having fun while learning about art concepts in the process. If you are ready to unleash your new Illustration superpowers, grab your Apple Pencil, the iPad, and the Procreate app, and let's just jump into the class. 2. Brush Canvas and Palette : Before you begin this wonderful class, you will need to create a Canvas by going here on the Plus and on this O plus going 6,000 by 4,000 pixels, a DPI of 250. This will give you about 18 layers depending on what iPad you have. Let's create Canvas. Perfect. After you've created this wonderful canvas, you will need to import the brush. The silky brush, this will be a very useful brush, and you will find it on the resources page of this course. You import it by downloading the brush from the resources page on your iPad, then going on the plus over here, going on Import, navigating to wherever you decided to save that beautiful brush, clicking on it. After you click on it, you go done. I will go cancel because that will create another beautiful brush, and you will also need the color palette. The color palette being this one, let's delete this swatch. This will be the color palette that you will need. You will find it on the beautiful resources page as well, and you will go on colors over here, palettes and go on the plus Import from file, and wherever you saved the beautiful color palette, that's exactly where you will find it, click on it, and you will import it. Okay, this is the beautiful color palette. And now let's go into the course. 3. Grass hills: For this first step, you will need to select the wonderful green from over here, this one over here, B on the silky brush. Let's zoom out a bit, just so you can start to draw a wonderful line from over here to over here. If you can't see that, let's draw it again by increasing the size, a bit lower and going over this way. You can then add the color onto the shape by dragging it with the pencil from here to here. Okay. Now, let's create this wonderful yellow over here. Let's take this yellow over here, this greenish yellow. And let's be a bit more wavy with it, going a bit lower onto the left side, onto the right side, I mean, and then dropping in the color. Perfect. And for the last thing that you are going to do is draw a selection. Go on selection over here, automatic, select this top one. In case that happened to you, you can simply press, go to the left, so you can only select this wonderful green on top. Go on the brush, go on artistic leather wood. And let's go with the lighter version of this color. Notice the opacity is at about 15% and the size at about 26. And you can start to draw over this area over here. Let's draw a few passes until it becomes much more interesting at the top and textured as well. And that's all you need for the step to undo the selection, just go on the S over here. And now let's go into the next step. 4. Clouds and Sky: For this next wonderful step, you will need to go onto the layers, add another beautiful layer, click on it and put it underneath the first layer. And let's go on the brush. Select the silky brush that you've imported. Let's go on the color. Let's select this wonderful color over here. And let's draw some clouds starting from here. So bubbly. Notice how it's going very round. This brush is very useful for those kinds of shapes. Just imagine a cloud and then draw it in. Let's go a bit like this over here. And then over here, we can go a bit more abstract. Perfect. Okay. Let's go over what happened over here. So wavy lines, then a bigger one, a corner. Maybe this one could have been smaller and this one could have been bigger. So let's actually do that. So you notice what happens if we do it like this. Okay, let's drop in the color. Notice how this is small, this is big. This could have been a bit smaller or yeah, it looks wonderful. And another beautiful trick that you can use is click on the Let's first go pinch like this and then go on to the selection tool. Well, the movement, the arrow, go on to warp, and let's lower it down from here. We can lower it a bit more, extend it. And just like that, beautiful. Now for the other side of the Sky, you will need this color over here. Let's drop it in beautifully. Perfect. Once you've done that, go on to the selection over here, select the clouds. That's a bit too much. And I've noticed a bit of interesting design over here, so we're going to need to go onto the brush. Silky, let's go on to the color of the wonderful clouds and draw in this area over here. Let's cover it all. Zoom out once again, and let's select going on the S two, select dragging the selection to the left until the blue at the top is blue. And the thing on the bottom is brown. Don't worry that everything disappeared over here. Once you click on the brush, it disappears and it made a beautiful selection of the clouds. If this is your first time using the selection tool, the selection tool gets you this wonderful selection going on the artistic on the letter wood. And with the color of the sky, the opacity lowered down to about maybe 12% or 13%, the size at 16. You can start to add some shadows, some beautiful shadows onto the Clouds, adding a few passes. Don't worry if you added too many passes. You can go back to the color of the clouds and start adding some of that color back in, going back to the sky color and adding some of that in. Perfect. Now, to make it more interesting, you can also take some of this white over here and add it at the top, just over some areas of the clouds. Now, undoing the selection, notice how beautiful it looks. The clouds look so much better and so much more interesting. Let's do the same for the sky. Let's select the sky. Oh no. Let's selected once again and going to the left until just the sky is covered, and we need to go onto the color of the clouds. Perfect. And just at the bottom, try to add just one pass. Don't lift the pencil. If you lift a pencil, this will happen. It's good. We can do two passes. Looks a bit better with two passes, actually. So a bit of texture just leaving the corners a bit darker. This will integrate the clouds a bit more and create some softer contrast. Okay, that's all you need for this step. 5. What you’ve learned so far: Let's recap a bit of what you've learned. You've learned how to create some wonderful lines and then drag the color over so that you fill them in. You've learned about the selection tool that gets you a selection, a beautiful selection that you can then add texture on top. Perfect. You've also learned how to separate layers and put them at the top or at the bottom. Notice how the sky is completely to the bottom, and this is on top because it's the foreground. Now, in the next steps, you will learn how to add more textures as well as detail to make these lines a bit more interesting, just the way you did with the wonderful clouds. Just make them a bit more interesting. 6. Breaking up the shapes: This next step, you will need to be on the layer with the ground. Let's select this wonderful color over here. And with the right brush, the inking silky brush. Silky over here. Let's create some interesting lines going inside this shape. Okay, this will create a bit more separation and sort of like a blend. Once you've done a few lines, notice that the brush is at about 20% size. Once you've done a few lines, you can go to the green and do the same, but the opposite way going towards the yellow, creating some wonderful lines can also be a bit more thick. So you can create some shapes. Notice how if you go a bit more playful and then going back to the yellow, you can go back and creating these pockets of light. These are shapes that are a bit more interesting for illustration, okay? And if you see that they are too exact and too rigorous or however you want to call it, just go with some lines from left to right over them so that they look a bit more interesting. Perfect. Let's erase some of this over here as well. Let's go back to the green and go over with some lines again, just so we make them a bit more uniform. Over here, it's a bit too straight. Perfect. Now, let's do a selection of this wonderful green, trying to select it all. Just going and adding just a few layers, selecting them. Okay. Once you've done that, you can go on the brush. We should have done this earlier, but it's fine. Going on the color over here on the beautiful artistic leather wood, it's at about 10% opacity, size, it's at about 10%. And let's add a bit of this color at the top where the two colors meet. Perfect. Now, let's undo the selection and look how beautiful that looks. Perfect. Let's go into the next step. 7. Texture on the horizon : Now you are going to learn another beautiful trick to better accentuate these lines at the top. So still on the layer with the ground. Now you're going to go to the eraser with the silky, and let's create a beautiful jagged edge, just going and creating a beautiful jagged edge, going in. Don't worry too much. Just go a bit nuts with the jaggedness. And notice how it's creating a wonderful effect. Don't worry that there are some little speckles of ground just in the sky that is to be expected. Let's lower it down a bit more over here. Perfect. And now let's zoom in and clean everything slowly and also edit the line. This is there is no method to the madness over here. You are just creating a bit more abstraction. So you are creating beautiful, like, zig zag or whatever kind of line. Notice how much more interesting it looks. Now over here, you can also calm it down if you want, in some areas and leave it unrefined in some areas. Let's erase some more of these shapes. You can calm it down also by increasing the size of the eraser and notice how it creates calmer, more interesting shapes. Perfect. Now, let's decrease the size so we can work on these small edges. This is only creating a wonderful effect so that it looks much more complex. Also a lot more painterly or illustrative. Notice how it's much more interesting. This side is going to be super nice. Perfect. And I kind of like the fact that it's a bit more squarish. So we're going to repeat those squares. Let's select this color over here. Go on the appropriate layer. You probably don't have this mistake, but I do. So let's go on the proper silky brush and go over this again. Perfect. Now, let's repeat that wonderful squarish shape around here. Notice how it's a bit more squarish, not properly. I'm going to do it like this. So it's even more of a square over here as well. Kind of beautiful squarish shape. Perfect. Look at how nice those squares look. Whoops. Perfect. Now, let's go and add a bit more over here, calming it down. Let's go outside, calm it down a bit. Perfect. And that's all you need for this wonderful step. 8. Simple trees: This wonderful step, you will need to create another layer on top of this ground layer, Let's create it. And going onto the inking brush, the silky one, let's go and add this color over here. And let's start drawing in some beautiful, big lines just going up and away. And then trees usually have a thicker bottom just like this. And then they go thinner and thinner. And going up, perfect. Now, let's close this shape, a bit crooked, and let's fill it in. Perfect. I know it looks like a not like a tree, but once you add a bit more, just going out from here, just going in and out. And now let's add that thickness a bit at the bottom. Perfect. Much better. Now let's do a thicker tree going from here, connecting it to this one. And going over and overlapping like this. Now, going from here, that's the thick and going up and up. Now going from this side and going up, and up. Perfect. Now, we need to close this shape. So let's go and add a bit of thickness and then go up and do the same for this branch as well. Closing in this shape over here with a bit of jaggedness, dropping in the color. And now notice how thin this branch is. It needs a bit of thickness. Okay, let's divide it. And let's add a bit more to width. Okay, maybe make the size of the brush a bit smaller. Perfect. Now, let's divide the top over here and maybe over here. One more over here. Perfect. And on this side, let's do another one that goes from here. Let's connect it a bit better, go like this, and maybe another one like this. Beautiful tree. Now, a trick that you can do is go onto the arrow and warp it a bit to your heart's content. We'll actually warp it to make it a bit more skinny onto the middle and a bit more thick at the top. Perfect. Speaking of that, let's actually add the endings as well. To some of them, not to all of them, you can also go and erase some of this. And let's go over here. Let's add another beautiful branch over on this side. Connect this one. Perfect. That's all you need for this step. 9. Shadows on the trees: For this next wonderful step, you will need to add the beautiful alpha lock on this layer. Let's go on the layer, add alpha lock, go on to the brushes, artistic leather wood. We have it at 11% with opacity at 10%. And let's go a bit lighter, like, right over here. Let's add some lightness to these branches as well as the tree. Perfect. Let's also add some color by going over here on this orange just a few times and some darkness by going over on this color and just at the bottom, just adding a few dabs. Maybe add a bit more light at the top. Notice how much more interesting this tree looks. Let's see how it does, how it looks by the end. Notice how flat it was and now it's much more nice and beautiful. It's the same trick you used for the clouds and everything else. Now, another cool trick is that you can select multiple layers, like, for instance, the tree and the beautiful ground. You can go on the arrow tool and you can distort it a bit and make it a bit more interesting. Can also zoom it in by going on distort. Zoom it in a bit. So you can make it bigger, smaller, however you want. I just wanted to add a bit more angle to it. Perfect. Now, that's awesome. And now let's go to the next step where you will add another wonderful layer. 10. Simple Foliage: Is going to be a very interesting and simple little step. All you need to do is go here and go onto the ground. Click plus so that the layer is below the trees. Go onto the brush. The brush needs to be silky. Perfect. Go onto the color of the ground. Well, this one. And let's create some wavy lines for the tree over here. You can make it as complex as you want, and then drop in the color perfect. Notice how it's a bit too complex. So I'm going to increase the size of the brush and start erasing some of these edges. Perfect. Now, that's wonderful. You can also go onto the eraser and go and add some more enclaves or little bits of shapes like that. You can also add some little holes, if you want, for the birdies. Perfect. One over here, maybe one over here. Okay. And maybe one over here. Maybe a smaller one over here. That looks wonderful. Now, let's go ahead and alpha lock this layer. Perfect. Remember, alpha lock is just a selection of everything that you've drawn on that layer. Now, let's go and add this beautiful green color with the artistic rush called leather wood. It's at 12% with 10% opacity. And let's add it at the top. Can also zoom out a bit. So you can add it nicely at the top. Okay. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and add this yellow over here, add some of it on top and the most the biggest amount at the bottom, just a few times. Perfect. Okay. Now we can also go on to the arrow tool and the warp, our favorite warp tool, and create a more interesting shape. I think that is wonderful. Perfect. Notice how much more interesting it looks. It's not so round, it's more organic. And that's all you need for this step. 11. Background tree: This point, the illustration looks quite good. You've learned how to make this wonderful tree, the background, the sky, and the foreground. But you can make this illustration so much more interesting by adding a few more elements. Let's start to add another wonderful tree. This tree needs to be behind the layer of the ground. So let's click on the sky and then click on the plus so that you have a layer that's in between the ground and the sky. Go on the brush, go on the inking brush, silky and then go and add this beautiful color. And let's go add right over here, a triangle. I know what you might be thinking. What's this triangle? Let's lower the size of the brush to about 6%. And now let's do something very, very interesting, which is going on to the darker color. And on the right side, let's alpha lock this layer first. Alpha lock, and let's start drawing like a little bit of a beautiful shadow just going down. Until you fill in the color. You can go a bit thicker, and then you can go back to the color that you've started the tree with and start carving in some of these beautiful lines inside the shape. Let's remove the alpha lock. Perfect. Going to the darker color and onto the right side, at the top, you can start to layer in some of these beautiful lines just going up. Notice how the brush keeps on creating these wonderful outside shapes. Perfect. Notice how it starts to become a tree. You can also go like this and up as well. Okay, perfect. Once you've done that, you can go onto the other color and on the left side. Do the same. You can be a bit more abstract. Perfect. And let's go a bit thicker and add a few more branches onto the right side and into the middle of the shape with the darker color. Okay. Perfect. Now let's go back and erase some of these lines. Maybe go with a line like this. Perfect. If you're unhappy with some of the things that are going on, like, for instance, over here, you have two options. Either you go with more color like this, or you can go with the eraser or you can do both. So the eraser gives you a bit of control over the outside depending on what you like. Now, let's go onto the selection tool, the arrow. Let's go on distort, making this a bit more thin and a bit smaller. Let's move it right over here. Perfect. And we've created another wonderful tree. In the next step, you will do the beautiful ground and also some stones. 12. Duplicating Rocks in the distance: This layer needs to sit on top of the ground and also on top of everything, actually, just because we are going to draw some stones over the ground and also over the tree. These stones will be with these beautiful colors as well as some of the darker shades. Let's make some stones. Starting right over here, these stones will be quite round. Let's drop in the color. I'm going to teach you a beautiful trick. Notice how you've created 2 stones. Now, duplicate the layer, go on to the movement over here. You can warp it quite a bit. Perfect. Now go on uniform, rotate the beautiful stones, make them smaller or bigger, however you want. And you can place them right over here at the bottom of the trees. Perfect. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and merge the two layers. Perfect. Now you have 4 stones and you didn't have to draw all of them. Now you can do the same by duplicating the layer again. Now let's move it down a bit. Okay, and go on to the eraser just so we can change the shapes of these stones. Quite a bit. Perfect. Let's go on to the selection tool over here, but this time go on free hand, select these ones over here by drawing a circle, move them right over here. Okay? You can also add them right on top like this. And start erasing some of these shapes can also increase the size of the brush, so it becomes a bit easier. Now on to the arrow, we can position these a bit over here. Okay, we can do a beautiful trick, which is to change the color. I think it's the same color. Let's go a bit darker. Okay. Perfect. We need to erase some more of this. Wonderful. Now, let's merge the two layers together. Now, another way you can do this is by selecting the area that you want with the stones that you have, and then copy and paste. Did it copy and paste? Yes, it's called from selection, and now you have it over here. You can make it smaller, if you want, you can add it on top. You can also warp it so that we can change the angles of these stones, and we can also change the colors. Let's add this color into the mix. Perfect. Can also erase some of the shapes maybe over here. Perfect. Now, you have a few stones and you didn't work as much for them. So let's duplicate this layer once again. Let's go on uniform, and let's add some more stones over here. Maybe color this one a bit darker. Mmm. No, let's make it lighter, actually. Let's make this one lighter. No, darker is better. Perfect. Now, let's do the warp once again. So we position them better. You can also do uniform, rotate, also distort, if you want. Just right over here. Perfect. Let's erase this big rock over on this side. Okay. Perfect. Notice how many rocks there are. You can also do the pinch onto the layers. You can also do another beautiful trick by zooming in after you merge the layers and start just taking the rocks that you want. Like, for instance, these ones over here, copy and paste. Okay. Notice how it's another selection over here, and we can move them right here, maybe make them a bit bigger by distorting them. Perfect. Now, we have some stones over here as well. Okay. And that's all you need for this beautiful step. 13. Rocks to bushes: Okay, let's merge. For this step, let's merge because we are not finished with the stones. We need to add this wonderful color. And let's remember to alpha lock the layer. Okay. And going into the artistic brush onto leather wood, making it smaller and smaller means at about 6% size, 18% opacity, and we can add just a few dabs of this paint, can also change the whole color of a stone by going a few times on it, and to add this wonderful color. Notice how they look much more interesting right now. Just with one color. Doesn't need to be all of these. Just go a bit more abstract, and it looks much, much, much nicer. Okay. And of course, after you've done that, you can add another beautiful layer, and let's do something very, very well, let's delete this layer, actually, because we are going to duplicate this layer, put it a bit lower. Increase the size by going on uniform. Let's rotate it so it looks much more different. Okay. We've rotated it, and you might be thinking, Oh, that's a lot of rocks. Yes, but we can go to the right. So all of these stones are deleted once we go on the arrow and once again, going on the arrow, deleting on this side, the stones. Perfect. Now going and adding this color over a few stones. That's only working because we have Oh, now, come on. You can do it one by one, if you want. But it's a cool way to just let's go over here. Perfect. It's a cool way to just add some bushes because they are the same shape. Let's add some bushes over here. Let's actually put them behind these stones. Perfect. Now, let's warp them. So what you've did over there is basically just a added created some stones and then added some colors on top of it on top of them. And then you've added them behind and distorted them, warped them so that they look a bit better. Notice how much nicer they look. I want to select this and distort it a bit. So it's more round. And now you have some bushes behind. You can also go with the eraser and create some more variety of edges. Maybe they are a bit more. They have some more crooked edges than the stones. Oh so this is a way to just make things way faster in illustration without really creating a lot of drawings and doing a lot of things. You can duplicate and merge and change the shapes and the colors super, super fast. That's why digital illustration is so nice. Let's erase some of this. So let's create you're just creating like you did with the ground, you're just creating some more interesting edges on these more organic edges on these bushes. So that they don't look too perfect like the stones. Okay? They have some texture to them. Okay? I will select this over here, copy and paste, and let's go and ed it over on this side. And just put it over here. We need to erase some of these bottom edges just to make them a bit more flat at the bottom, and also some of the corners. Don't worry about the runaways. Things like that happen in bushes all the time. Like, for instance, there are leaves either on the ground or just floating about. They can happen in nature, so you don't have to be super, super exact, except for these ones which are too far. Okay? Let's merge the layers, all of them together, the stones and the bushes, so that we can erase a bit more of this bush. Perfect. And that's all you need for this step. 14. First walls of the Cabin: This next wonderful step, you will need to merge some of the layers, like, for instance, the ground and the trees, just like this, just so you have a bit more to play around with. Just leave three layers, the sky, the ground and the trees, and then the stones that should be on top. Perfect. Now let's go create another beautiful layer. This time, it's going to be above the sky, below the ground. This is just so you can simplify everything. Now going on to this color over here, let's go on this one. Perfect. Let's go ahead and create a few lines. Okay. Notice how. Oh, no, let's add the correct brush. Notice how if you hold down, you're going to create a straight line. Okay. Going straight down just about over here, and now from this corner going this way. Okay. And going straight down over here. You can also go on the line and edit it a bit. That's exactly what I'm going to do. Once you've done that, you need to realize that this is not a square yet. Notice how if I undo the ground, it doesn't have the line over here. So let's actually draw a line like this. It doesn't really matter. We can draw it like that, and then we can drop in the color. Perfect. Let's put in the ground once again in the trees. That's perfect. I think it's way too light. So let's add this color on top of it from over here. Perfect. Okay. So you've now inadvertently learned about perspective. Notice how this is sloping down. Now, to be more interesting, we can add a few more tricks. Like, notice how from here, you can go like this with a beautiful line. Nope. That's not a line. This is a line. Perfect. You can edit the line by going over here and a bit higher. Perfect. And now going down. And let's make it a bit longer, maybe. Perfect. Now, let's add the color over top. You can do a cool trick by going on the eraser and going with a line with the eraser, maybe making the eraser a bit bigger. Perfect. You can even notice how if I go like this, it will snap at some point, and then you can also edit it so you can cut down on the edge of this building, it will be a house. Okay. Perfect. And once you've done that, you can go back on the brush, go over here with a straight line so we can continue the building. It was way too small. Let's close that shape. Whoop. Okay, let's close that shape and drop in the color. Notice how if we undo the ground, you're gonna see a closed shape over here. Perfect. If yours doesn't look this way, you can always distort it a bit. That's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm going to distort it and also move it behind this tree. Perfect. Now, a beautiful thing that you can do next is go back to the color that was lighter. Okay. Let's do a selection this time on the outside with the automatic tool. Outside. Notice how it's going all around the outside. Let's go on the brush. This is just so you don't draw inside of this shape. Perfect. Now, for the perspective to work, this went that way, this is going to go this way. Okay, be careful not to be very tangential, so it doesn't create a tangent. So notice how it's broken a bit. It's like this, and then it goes like that. I'm going to actually exaggerate it so you understand. So now, notice how this line is going this way, and now this line is going a bit more this way. It's important to do that, just because you will also draw a roof that is going to be like this. But first, let's draw a line over here, a straight line. Let's edit it a bit. Perfect, so that it's a bit more straight. Okay. Et's Edit. No. Edit it. Perfect. Let's go on to brush. Close that shape, drop in the color. Perfect. Okay. And that's all you need for this step. 15. Rooftop and shadow : For the roof, you're going to need to do the selection once again on the outside of the shape. Notice how it's creating this wonderful effect. And let's go on the brush. And let's go on the lightest color over here. Okay. All you have to do right now is create a parallel line over here. Okay. Create it like that, edit it, and then move it over on this side. That ensures 100% that it's parallel. Perfect. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and do the same over on this side, edit the line, make it parallel, and then go click over here and move it to the top Okay, perfect. Even though it gets outside a bit over here, that's absolutely normal and perfect. Once you've done that, make sure that the lines are closed. Over here, it's closed, here it's closed. You can drop in the color. It's not closed. So over here, it wasn't closed. We actually needed it a bit longer anyway. Perfect. Let's drop in the color. And right now we need to increase the size of the brush, go onto this wonderful dark color. Let's create this edge over here. Okay. Notice how it's going behind the building. That's because the building is still selected. Well, the sky is selected. Okay, the brush is a bit bigger, a bit too big for this next line. So the line that you've created goes right over here, parallel creating an edge. Now, this next line will go from here to here, Okay. Notice how it's not selected anymore, so let's undo that and select until the selection is still there again. Perfect. Now we can go and undo the big brush, and let's do it again. This time, not messing around with the beautiful selection. Go on the brush. Notice how they meet almost perfectly over here. Now we need to create another line over on this side. And edit the line so we can make it a bit thicker, needs to be a bit smaller than this one. Perfect. Now, let's undo the selection just because this one needs to be on top of this building over here. So let's do a line. Perfect. Now, at the end, it needs to be erased like this. That looks wonderful. We can also because we don't have the selection anymore, we can also distort it a bit. Notice how we can just distort it a bit, make the perspective a bit better or play around with things. Another fun thing you can do in this step is go onto the selection tool, select this face of the house, go onto the brush onto artistic. Well, not yet. Let's go on inking. And silky. Zoom in quite a bit. Draw a parallel line. Forgot to select the right color. The right color is over here, and it's actually this brown over here. Let's draw in a line that is straight and try to make it as parallel as you want. You can also check it if it's parallel, it's not. So let's put it over here. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and pick this color up, nope, pick this color up, go to the left until you build this wonderful shadow. And that's all you need for this wonderful step. 16. Textures and window: Same way you worked on the tree, on the ground, on the beautiful sky and the clouds, you're going to work now on some textures onto the house. Let's go on to the selection tool. Over here, select the brown, the darkest brown. And let's go on to this color, which is the lighter version of the brown. The one that is right over here, go on to the brush, so the selection is created. The brush needs to be leatherwood. Make it a bit smaller, 5% or six. Opacity to about 13%, and let's see how this works. It works perfectly. Perfect. Okay. Let's do another beautiful layer. And I think that's quite enough. Okay. The same can be done with the light version. Well, right over here, the light version of this color. But instead of going very, very dark, we can go lighter. So let's select the sandy color. Go with the brush again. And let's add some textures on top. We can also go darker at the bottom. You're going to understand why, but that's not the proper dark. This one is. Doesn't really matter. Okay? So the dark. And let's add some more of this red brown on top. Perfect. Now, with the selection tool, let's select this over here, maybe not that much because it also selected this side over here. So we need to go to the left. Okay. Perfect. I think that's more than enough. It got a bit from over here, but it doesn't really matter. Let's go onto the brush, select the inking brush, go to this red, beautiful color, this dark red brown. Let's add a line over here. You didn't want to do a line. Let's go a bit thinner. Okay. I think we've lost a line over here. Notice how this line is almost lost. We need to change it and add it again. So let's add it over on this side, maybe select the right color. Okay. What happened is when I did the Brown selection, it selected the roof shadow as well, but that's okay. We can add some more lines like this to create a more interesting roof shadow. Let's go over here and erase some of this. Perfect. Now we need another beautiful line going this way. So with the same color that's over here, going with a straight line. Oh, no. Just like this. Let's edit. The line. Perfect. Okay. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and select it. Once again, let's select it. Perfect. And we can go with this color. First of all, let's select it, and then we can go with this color and with the leatherwood artistic brush and integrate it a bit more. It's not really visible, so let's increase the opacity. Okay, perfect. Just a few passes. And once that is done, notice how it's a bit more integrated. Okay. Let's go on this color over here once again, and let's create a beautiful door. The door is going to be right over here. Let's go on inking. Needs to be parallel over here. Okay? A bit smaller. So parallel and then going down. Do not connect it too much. Let's be a bit more thin. Thinner, door. Perfect. Now let's connect it with a parallel line. Drop in the color and drop in the color again at the top. Okay. And with this wonderful color, we can erase some of this. Doesn't need to be perfect. Okay? Notice how it's wonderful and nice. Let's erase over here and maybe over here as well. You might be noticing that this door doesn't actually look like a door, but it doesn't matter because we're going to do some beautiful platform in front of it in the next step. But before we do that, we need to play around with the top of the house as well. 17. Chimney of the cabin: Okay, let's go on to our favorite tool, the selection tool, select the beautiful roof. Just the roof. Okay. Going on the brush artistic leatherwood and select this lighter version of the roof color. Let's go on top, maybe making it a bit smaller and the opacity to about 8%. Maybe a bit more small. I know it's not really visible, but once you add a few layers, you can go back to the lighter version of this color, increase the opacity. Perfect. Notice how it was very, very flat, very flat. And now notice how it's a bit more interesting. Not a lot, but it's perfect enough. Okay. And let's do another beautiful layer. This is going to be a very, very simple trick. We're just going to add the beautiful I don't know how it's called the smoke thing behind the house. Go on the correct brush, the silky one. Not with this color, with this color, go with a straight line. Don't worry if it's on top of the house. Let's go with another straight line over here, make it smaller. Another one over here. The bottom doesn't really matter. And going lighter with this color, going to the right to the left, actually, and down connected. Drop in the color. Let's drop in this color as well. And now let's put the layer behind the house. Perfect. It's the same trick you used for the house when it comes to the ground. Notice how the house at the bottom is very, very jagged. And to make things more interesting, let's select this well, let's be on the first layer. On the correct layer first. Let's select this over here, go onto the brush. Artistic leather wood, select the color that is lighter. Okay. Lower the opacity, add just a few lines, maybe make the size a bit bigger. Perfect. That is super, super nice, and it looks wonderful. In the next step, you will learn how to make that platform. Notice how you've played around with perspective, with things like that, with buildings and houses and beautiful horns. I think that's how it's called and the roof. And you didn't really need to understand all the concepts. All you needed was just a few examples and also a few pointers to get the right shape and the right colors, as well as textures. That's how easy it can be to illustrate something beautiful. 18. Deck and Platform: For this next step being on the layer with the horn. Well, not actually. We need another layer on top. Let's merge the horn and the house and add another layer on top of the beautiful house. With the correct brush, the silky brush selected, let's go on to this beautiful color over here and let's draw a platform. Platform will go from here to here with a straight line. Okay. And now this way, notice how it's not really parallel to this. It needs to be a bit more parallel. So let's parallelize this line. Perfect. Now, this one, you can also draw it over here, so you know it's parallel. Perspective kind of forces you to be parallel in order to be believable. Now notice how it's going behind this area over here. Okay. Those are the first two lines. Now let's go a bit darker with this color over here. And this time, you can just go with a straight line and over here, another straight line. Perfect. You can go a bit darker as well this time this way. And also this way, in between, you can edit the shape, the line, and going this way as well. These lines don't really need to be that straight, once you have the first ones that indicate the correct line, that's going to be super, super easy. Let's go back to the first color, this one over here and draw a post from here down to here. Okay? All the posts that are going to go like this, they are going to be straight. So let's go like this and straight. And let's go over on this side, from here to here and edit the line so it connects. Maybe it goes a bit outside and a bit outside over here. Perfect. Now, let's add a few more posts going down. Okay, they don't always need to connect. They can be a bit smaller, a bit bigger. Notice how just a bit of that ruggedness makes it very, very nice and interesting. Okay, let's change the color to a darker tone, so we have another. Now let's go with a diagonal. Okay. And the line over here. And a post it doesn't need to connect and another post. These are middle tones. Now you can go to the highlights. This is the highlight color. And let's lower the size to about 4%, go on top and create a highlight for this beautiful line. Now for this post as well, straight line, you can edit the shape, connect it right over here, and just over here. Over on this side, can also do some other lines like this. They don't always need to be like the perfect color. Okay. Let's add another post over here. Let's make it a bit bigger. And this one. Oh, no. Okay. This one over here. Perfect. Now, it needs a bit more jaggedness. It's too perfect. So let's go back to this color. Let's draw a bit over and create some lines that are not so perfect. Okay? Maybe some posts going down. We can also go to the darker color. Okay, and create some lines over top. Looks so much better once it's a bit more rugged. Okay. Highlight is way too dark, way too light. So let's add a bit of this dark over top. Let's add some lines going like this. Maybe another one just going over here. Perfect. Just play around until you feel comfortable with the drawing. Notice here, we can add on top. One trick that you can do is alpha lock, just because everything is very contrasting and you maybe don't want to attract so much attention to that. Just alpha lock the layer, go to the lighter version of this color over here, go on to the artistic, the leather wood, opacity at about maybe 19%, size at about seven. And let's add a bit of this color on top. You can also add some of this dark just so it cuts some of that perfect colors. Notice how now it looks much, much, much better. Also needs a bit light, bit of light, maybe on top right over here. Okay. Perfect. It's a bit more uniform, and it also has the details that you've created. Perfect. Now, you can play around with the size with the positioning. Notice how if I position it right over here, it looks so much better. Perfect. Okay, let's zoom out a bit and see if we can create something else. Yes, we can. We can add some of this color. But in the next step, 19. Finishing contrast Thank you: Last finishing details, let's add some of this color. Okay. With the leather wood, we are on the leatherwood, but we are not on the correct layer. Let's alpha lock the layer of the ground, and let's draw in some shadows behind these rocks. And over here and also some lines with the inking brush, the silky inking brush. Maybe a bit thicker, behind the wonderful stones, maybe that's a beautiful shadow or something like that. Can go a bit in front, but not too much, not as I did. Okay. Notice how it integrates everything together. Okay. Oh, no. Can always undo the things and redo them. Some of the stones might need to be darker. So let's select let's go on to the layer of the stones and select some of them. Maybe this one over here. No. Maybe this one. Yeah, this one. This one and this one. And maybe half of this one. Nope, we can't. But it's fine. Let's go on to the darker color, and we have the silky, so we should actually go on to artistic and let's go and add some darkness on these stones. This one needs to be darker. Okay, let's see how it looks. Notice how over here, it's a bit jagged, so we need to select it like right over here, go onto the leather wood and go with the brown over top and a bit more. Perfect. Okay. That's wonderful. Let's see how it looked before the darker stones. Notice how it's very, very flat. After you've added some contrast, looks much nicer and much more refined. Thank you for watching. I hope you had a great time and you did a wonderful illustration. And if you are gracious enough, please leave a review. It will really help others know that this course is for them as well.