How to EASILY Draw 2D Landscapes in Photoshop ep. 05

hey guys it's neyman and welcome to another 2d landscape photoshop tutorial this is really requested topic from you guys so this is i don't know fourth or fifth tutorial in series i lost the count but it doesn't matter what matters is that today we learned how to create this type of artwork so without further ado let's jump straight into photoshop and let the fun begin alright guys today we will start with this blank piece of paper blank canvas in photoshop and if you're curious about the resolution it's 2000 by 2500 pixels and now we will populate this with some 2d things so basically first thing that you need to know before you're doing this you don't need but it's easier to know what actually you want to expect as a final result so what do you want to put on this blank piece of paper i know that i want to put some kind of trees here on this side and also tree on this side right here with some branches here at the top and also some grass here down below maybe this is rabbit i don't know how to draw but this is rabbit this is another animal maybe fox with a big tail it's funny fox doesn't matter more like squirrel but also i want few trees in the background here maybe a few bushes here and there and uh some falling leaves etc so this is basically it so for that we can use several things we can either draw everything manually if we are good in drawing which i'm obviously not or we can go to some free websites like pixabay.com and just download some silhouette of the trees animals etc and they have a lot of silhouette of trees and things like that so that's another way and also we can go with the photoshop filter render and tree and we can render trees and turn it into a silhouette and use that so today i will use combination of everything basically i will draw a little bit not too much just few lines and i will use you will see right here let's let's delete this because this is awful awful drawing i will use this photo this is from pixabay and i don't want to use the tree i just want to use the grass here down below so i'll copy this and go paste it right here okay and let's see let's move it in the scene it's really huge because this this was a vector file so you can download vectors too and i will just go for the grass so i will control command t see how huge this is and let's see i'll just go for something like this and let's see me actually i don't need that tree so i will go like that and i will use the lasso tool and just lasso out everything here and put on layer mask and invert control or command i and now i need to do this part too again go to layer mask and i want to fill this with the black alt and backspace on windows or option and backspace on a mac and this is it now we have a grass we have some gap here why is that well because i will go to another layer or i can just go to the same layer it doesn't matter and i will go with rectangular marquee tool and just fill this with the black again alt or option on a mac and backspace and we are filling it with foreground color okay perfect we have something here we can fix it by using a stamp tool and clone stamp tool and just clone it with some type of these things okay we we have also a layer mask that we need to fix we can play here and there okay and again stamp tool and just go and oops not on a mask on the layer itself and just go and clone this oh okay this is perfect so we can erase maybe this because it's too much but now we have a grass okay this is one one part here another part that i want to do is to add even more of the grass details so i will go with this one so i will copy this go back here paste it and this is our artwork it's amazing where is the forest and everything behind the grass everything is behind the grass you cannot see it we are really low down on the ground we are hiding maybe we can make something here and that's like an artwork but no okay so we will make this smaller again control or command t just make it smaller but really really small like like this like we need two or three of these um let's see maybe like this is one and i will just copy it with move tool press and hold alt or option key just drag it right there and who cares i'll just copy here and this is this is it so i will group everything here ctrl or command g my name is grass because i want to know where are these things i have something below the keyboard so this is why it's wobbling okay so this is grass now let's go for the trees with the tree what i like to do i like to create a new layer i can go now on pixabay and just download the tree and put it here and there but i will show you how to do it with photoshop filter render tree because i like it i like variations there but i will use my drawing skills amazing drawing skills i'll use the hard round brush and i will just draw like i want a tree to be here like this and another tree i want to be something like like this here and now you can basically manually draw some branches here and there if you want and just paint your own tree if you're up to it and leaves etc but i already told you i am not good in these things there are so many amazing people this can draw amazing stuff okay so this is it and now what we can do this is just a guideline for me so this is why i'm drawing this these three trunks down below something like like this will be cool okay and now i will go create a new layer go to filter render 3. okay and here you can see a bunch of three presets we have 34 three presets amazing things i will go with o3 because i like it we have basic and advanced tab and here on the advanced tab we can tilt the camera see this is cool if you want to do that we can use a custom color for the leaves so maybe we don't want green maybe we want some kind of an orange so let's say okay and you will see some orange tree etc but i don't want that i want to do some kind of that color or i can go here and say reset and it should reset to default that's perfect let's reset also what we will use some things here but let's first uh set the three the branches size and the leaves amount okay light direction we will not deal with that we will go with the leaves amount we can make less or more leaves so you can see we can make without leaves at all but i definitely want some leaves not too much though then branch branches thickness we can make some really thick branches or really thin one this and this is really stupid but it's there okay so something like like this also we can change the height of the branches see maybe even more up so let's let's go with something i don't know leaf size can make bigger smaller smaller leaves that's cool too but let's see now guys this is something that you can spend a lot of time here tweaking to the desired result i will fast forward this until i i'm get something that i'm getting something that i really like okay let's go with this for example and one more thing because this needs to be a silhouette we can go to advanced tab and we can go here and say flat shading for leaves and flat shading from from for branches so let's click here and you will see it's now flat and also for the leaves now it's flat and this is this is a little bit better for this type of work if you're making this like a full silhouette one color it doesn't matter but we will have some variations and we will use this option so we can get a better result so let's press ok and i will show in this first plane of view it doesn't matter at all but for the second plane it will be really handy this type of flat shading but for the first i will turn this into a silhouette by control click on it to load it as a selection just fill it with black alt and backspace or option and backspace on a mac ctrl or command d to deselect ctrl or command t to make it bigger and now i want to put this somewhere here at the top so like i want to have like a big big trunk and then branches right right there okay and i can make it bigger smaller but i think this is perfect and see i draw this trunk but actually it was really good what i can do here i can make it maybe like again i'm going into control but maybe a little bit like this and i can go with the warp and just do something like this like to have a big branch it's coming from this direction also i can do this see i can play play with things a little bit why not let's press ok and let's see if i move this a little bit up a little bit to the left i pretty much like it i can always go with regular brush and just draw the things how i like to be so maybe like maybe like this this is perfect okay now i will fast forward i will do exactly the same thing for the left part for the left tree for the left part of the image and then i will come back empty layer and everything is the rest the same okay so this is what i like again i will turn it into a silhouette control click and paint it with white or painted with black or what you can do you can press ctrl or command u and then go with the hue situation dialog box and go with the lightness all the way down it's the same there are so many things that you can do in photoshop in different ways so many same things again i will make it bigger put it somewhere here and let's see if i warp it again and move it like this this is pretty cool why not let's have something cool like that and press ok and we have now really really nice framing right here that i pretty much like it and this is our base for the rest so now we can go here and maybe erase if we don't want so big trunks or leave it like that or whatever and now what i like to do i like to go to few other files i want to go to the rabbit put put a rabbit right there ctrl command t make it smaller constrain the proportions okay i will flip it horizontally because i want my rabbit to go okay or hide in the grass just the ears are there so i like it this way maybe it will jump somewhere here then what i like to do i like to go maybe with the fox or later now i want to add some mushrooms these are some drawing mushrooms that are draw by hand or whatever but but i will just paste them here and i will again use ctrl or command u and just make them dark and i don't care about these shadows i can erase shadows if i don't like them and also i don't need to erase everything down below i just want to erase this and i can use lasso tool and just just go like this doesn't need to be perfect i will just delete that and this is pretty cool but the the rest will not be visible because we'll be way down in the grass so what i can do i can select everything again fill it with black and now make it smaller like really small and i want to put the mushroom somewhere somewhere here okay maybe something like that i can even make a new layer and draw this part like this is a bigger mushroom also we can put some some things here but where is the grass it's here so i want to go and let's do something let's go to this one and move it a little bit down below and also to this one with let's see down below let's see move this this down below all right now let's go to the mushrooms i need to group everything because now it's big mess so ctrl or command j to make a copy of it go right there and i will erase these i don't need them just delete them and also i will raise this one i just want to use the big one let's erase this why not and i will put this mushroom right here maybe to make it a touch bigger like that and what i have here some crazy things it's from from this from this okay i will just paint with black and let's go right there let's make a copy alt or option just drag it flip it make it smaller and i just want to have another mushroom right here okay this is perfect maybe this rabbit is a little bit small now but it will jump here and there okay now let's make a short break to mention the sponsor for today's video this video is sponsored by our grid so thank you argo for that in case you don't know guys our grid is amazing website where you can find hand-picked 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a little bit so all of these things this is mushroom mushroom mushroom mushroom okay so let's group this and i'll just name em as a mushroom then this is rabbit and these are trees so this trees okay and now it's much better so the next thing is to go and add some elements to another plane but before that what we can do we can go and add these leaves why not and i want just that few leaves like falling down from from this tree etc so now this will be again fast forward because what i need to do i need just to select one of them shift ctrl j or shift command j on a mac just to cut it on a separate layer and position it where i want to be then go back to this layer again lasso tool and just cut a few of them you can do here new layer rear cut shift control plus j or shift command on the mac plus j and then move it where you want this to be etc so i will just fast forward this okay for now i will leave it like this and now let's go to another plane so before that these i think or our leaves yeah let's go to another plane as i already said i will create a new layer below everything behind the grass behind everything so here and this will be i will put in a group and this group will be playing two or second plane or whatever and again i will go to filter and render and three and this time this flat flat colors of the leaves and the trunk will be really helpful you will see why again i have a fast forward i'll just reposition the sliders here and to get something that i like for the trees behind okay so this is it i have checked flat shading for the leaves and the branches press ok and now i have this green tree that i will again make it bigger and i will put it somewhere here like this is a second plane of that trees and this is cool and also what i like to do i will use a brush i will sample this color and just draw a part of the trunk there too okay so because my tree is a little bit shorter than i wanted so this is okay for now and i will go and create hue saturation adjustment layer move it all the way up to affect the group clip it to effect only the group and i will colorize everything and now you will see how this will come handy i will make this brighter and let's see the colors we can you can choose any color you want the brightness of course is optional etc this is completely personal preference on based on taste etc but now you can see we have some variations in shading if this was a silhouette i can do that let me show you is if this was a silhouette let's go to exposure clip it effect only that and we will have just one tone one orange tone of everything and this is perfect too no problem if you want to create this kind of effect but i really love this kind of variations because i can do that with this type of photoshop trees render three and this is really cool so for now we're leaving like that i will create another layer again fast forward to get another tree okay so this is another tree that i will put somewhere here again i will make it bigger and i will put somewhere somewhere here like this maybe i can go with a warp and just maybe go like this or i can just use the same not this color but i need to hide this i will use this same color and then i can paint with with this but actually i will put some kind of bushes down below so i don't need actually to paint this you will see and this is cool maybe i will move this one even more to the left maybe like like this why not so and also we need to paint here even more things now it's time to add some kind of bushes but before that let's go all the way down and create one gradient adjustment layer because i want to fill the sky color so i can go right here and i can choose some colors i can choose maybe oranges and just choose different types you see we have a gap here we'll fix it don't worry so maybe i want this type or this type or whatever i will change it so i want this to be nothing and this to be actually white i will change it into white or almost white something like like that and i can press ok and now before i press ok here i can move this up and down as you can see so i will move it a little bit down and i will desaturate this stone a little bit so go to saturation and desaturate it it's okay for now we can always go back and change it now we need to fix this this is the part from the grass right here as you can see because we did a clone stamp to some of the layers let's see on on this one we can just go here use the layer mask black color and just just erase that and it's fixed now our photo now now our artwork is getting uh to getting to some kind of uh final final result it's shaped by these trees and all other elements so let's add bushes let's go again down below create a new layer and let me show you how i will create bush it's really simple again i will use three because i love that plugin for photoshop that filter i would go with the branches i hate height to something like that also i want a lot of leaves as you can see and leave size if i go with the small i don't want this i really want big leaf size like that and i will press ok and this is my bush so this is like a small bush that i will put right here and i will just copy out and drag and put another one here and this is another one and it's amazing it's something that i really love i can rotate it if i want i can just tweak it however i want but i really love this so let's let's use like that and also let's go for the third plan but before that i want to put a fox here let's go to our foxy lady and [Music] yeah it's a little bit too big don't you think um transform it make it smaller now it's better now our fox is better it's smaller okay and now let's go to third plan so let's go right here create a new group this is plan number three but plane i want a plane like plane okay i think the fox is not good it's strange shape i was joking about the fox of course so let's let's bring back the fox make it smaller and and you know what i'm missing some orange grass at the back so i will definitely do that because fox is in the back more further away from the camera it will be a smaller definitely i will put it here but then i will go to the grass and let's see if i make a copy of this and put it up this is okay but no i don't like it let's see this one put it up this is better but i want to make it smaller and yeah this can be nice and also just make another copy and now let's go back to fox just i want to move it i like to move it move it i'd like to move it okay i like to move it here and for now this is pretty good let's make a copy of these leaves so this is one leaf that i want to put in i just want to make make a copy alt and drag all the way to plan two and this is one leaf really cool if make it a little bit smaller because it's further away maybe the fox is looking how this is falling down and maybe i want to add a few more so let's go let's go to grab few of them go again down to the second plane and now i will just again move them don't sing that song okay make them smaller rotate like that this is like that why not and do i need these no let's see more of these leaves this is this is pretty good let's group them leaves leaves okay perfect i don't like this one why i don't know i don't like it where it is where are you my friend you're here so yeah because i have this one already there so i would rotate it and put it maybe here yeah it's not visible let's delete it and these ones are pretty pretty nice and now let's go to the third plan and we are almost done i know that you can't wait for me to finish this because it's a bit longer tutorial but it is how it is let's go here create a new layer inside the third plan plain and let's add more bushes so let's go to filter render tree and here what i will do i will just go here and till the camera different angle okay and we will add this make it smaller we will add this summer here and also what i like to do i like to colorize this to something else let's make a copy of the human saturation layer clip it to effect this one and then change change the color to yellow because it's more on the brighter side so this is pretty cool i don't want so saturated or maybe i want what do you think blue is cool so this is not blue actually this is gray but if you see seeing this like a blue tone that's because your eye will fool you because of the orange tone all around so this is gray this is yellow this is great okay so something like this maybe a bit brighter and um let's leave it like like that for now and then i can make a copy but i don't want to make a copy of that i just want to create another one and i can make it again smaller put it somewhere here and i can make a copy of this one again and let me see if i move it flip it horizontally make it smaller move it here like there are few layers of these maybe this one can be a bit brighter i can go with controller command m and just use our curves to make this bit brighter like it's even more further away and this looks pretty cool what do you think guys this is really really nice now we will add another thing that is completely optional everything is here optional but i will do another thing that i think that it will add the really nice overall look so let's do it okay so i want to add some kind of a sun not my son like i already did in one of tutorials but like big sun like this i don't have children's yet so uh this let's fill with white control and backspace or command and backspace and ta-da this is pretty cool maybe to make it smaller maybe to make it huge i don't know maybe the first was perfect version so this and maybe i want these bushes to move it to the left and move it to the right and move it to the left to other left this is pretty cool maybe a little bit here just a touch because i want this to be able to to breed to have space to breed this sun okay and this is really cool now we can add a glow you can change the colors you can do whatever we want i will add some kind of a glow to everything but let me show really quickly let's collapse this collapse this and this and this is really cool i can add hue and saturation adjustment layer at the top of everything i can really easily change the tonality so you can make something completely different or you can change the color separately uh one by one by moving these concentration adjustment layers so this can be more bluish tone like you can make some kind of a snow even if you make some kind of a bluish scenes it can or change the trees to some kind of winter trees you can make winter type of photo so it's really cool i will delete this because i don't need it i want this but i will go and use onyric plugin it's it's really good cool add-on for the photoshop i already did a full tutorial on that you can find it on rink right there and it's amazing for generating the the glow here so you can see it's really huge globe so i want to go right there lower the threshold even more and i don't want so intense so let's see this is cool i want to colorize so everything will have really nice tone but i want more like orange not red and this looks really good so let's go with the threshold a little bit down maybe the sun is too big maybe maybe i'm just saying you can always play with this and let's see before and after yeah before and after press ok glow and a few more moments and this is it this is cool let's put this back here this is really really cool i think we are done of course we can play with this even more we can add more elements we can change the landscape however we want but i'm really really happy with this version and that's it for today guys now you know another way how to create this amazing 2d landscapes you saw how you can utilize photoshop filter render 3 in different ways to use that to flat the colors on both branches and tree trunk and also on the leaves and to create this type of really cool to the landscapes so you have any kind of questions regarding to this episode please leave me down there in the comment section below and i will be glad to answer it also guys if you want to be better in photo manipulations i have photo manipulation essential course on my website the link is down there in description if you're update check it out and learn how to create really amazing photo manipulation completely on your own from scratch learn all the things that you need to know uh to be able to create something on your own also guys if you want to download this psd file and all other psd files that i put it out there for you to be able to practice easier you can do that by supporting me on my patreon page the link is down there in the description and in that way you're directly supporting this channel and the existence of the channel so for all my patreon friends who already supported me there thank you so much i really really appreciate that ready guys that's it have fun experiment and see you in my next fun episode bye [Music] 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Channel: Nemanja Sekulic

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Length: 34min 16sec (2056 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 03 2020