IPAD PAINTING TUTORIAL - Seashore Sunset landscape art in Procreate

okay welcome to another ipad painting tutorial on today's tutorial i'm going to be painting a beach shoreline with maybe a sunset sun reflecting in the water's edge there so as usual i'm using the app procreate on an ipad i've just opened one of the default a4 canvas sizes and if you want to use the exact same colors that i'm using well i've put a link in the description to this video and if you follow that link it will take you to my patreon page and you can download the color file for free or if you just want to take down the hexadecimal codes that are down in the description you can go to the value section within the colors on procreate type them in here press enter the color will appear here and you can just tap it into the creation of your own palette the reason i provide them is because the camera that i'm using sometimes over saturates the colors so at least you know if you're taking the exact colors it's going to be accurate and in terms of the brushes i'm using i'm going to use the soft brush with an airbrushing i'm going to use probably a medium brush too so the first thing i'm going to do on my first layer is go to my colors i'm going to select my first color and i'm just going to drag it into my canvas so it's going to fill it now if i look on the color wheel you can see it's pretty much a gray color and it's going to be probably appearing a little bit more blue by the time we put other things into our scene but initially it is actually a gray color we're going to create another layer we're going to go back to our colors and we're going to pick the second color along we're going to go on to the airbrushing use the soft brush we're going to increase the size of our brush to 10 we're going to put the opacity at around 70 and i'm just going to think where i want the middle point to be that's pretty much where i'm going to put the horizon line but i want this second color to be above that point so it's just about well roughly about two-thirds of the way up maybe even a little bit higher than that and i've just gone over a couple of times like that and i'll keep moving that up into the sky a little bit like that the next thing we're going to do is go back to my colors i'm going to select the third color along and about halfway in that area and upwards i'm going to use this color go back to my colors fourth color along and i'm going to use that at the very top then i'm going to go onto my adjustments the gaussian blur i want to affect the whole layer and i'm going to just going to slide it across to about 40 percent and that's going to create a nice color blend for us that's going to work quite well what i do think i need to do is to go to the transform check you're on freeform squish it in a little bit and i'm just taking it a little bit further up so we're getting a bit more of this blue band higher up in our scene next thing i'm going to do is create another layer stick on the soft brush i'm going to skip to these colors i'm going to go straight to this color and you can see it's actually a little bit more red than it is orange but it appears more orange i'm going to put it at around 8 size and around 30 opacity and i'm going to go down into the the blue area and i can always move this but i'm going to aim for roughly about the center i'm just going to start tapping in that area where i think i want the sun to be like that a few times is good enough i'm going to reduce the size of my brush to around five percent go back to my colors i'm going to pick this yellow color and in the very center i'm just going to start bringing out some yellow tap it a few times that seems to work and we'll go back to our colors on the white and just reduce it down to four percent this time but i'm going to turn the opacity up to 70 and we're going to aim if we can we can always zoom in go straight for the very center and start to tap a few times and so we're really bringing out some intensity keep tapping keep tapping and then we've really brought out a bright color there for our sun now if we go to the layer you can see the layer that the sun is on more ways of intensifying it is you can duplicate it like so and it really brings out some of the warm colors too what often happens is you get banding like this there are ways of sorting that out you can go to the adjustments the gaussian blur but instead of affecting the whole layer we can go to the pencil setting and we can check the size of our brush and we can just start to soften some of these bands in if we need to i'm just doing it in circular motions just starting to blend it in and you can see the settings it's on and it's on 60 percent we can just blend some of those banding issues away now the reason we're not doing the entire layer is we don't want to lose the crisp edge of that sun there really we just want to reduce the banding probably around the edge there you could turn the opacity of it down and again we could move a little bit closer just to help blend it in like so tap out of the adjustments so when we zoom back out we can see some real intensity there now being brought into that we'll go back to our layers we'll pinch those two together so we can create another layer and this layer we can put behind the sun and go back to my brushes make sure i'm on the soft brush i'm going to put it at around 10 size but i'm going to keep the strength of the brush really low about five percent and you can see here we've got the sun then we've got a cooler area again and then i want above that to create a warm glowing area so concentrated in the area just above where the sun is going to be we can just start to build up the glow in that area perhaps but we don't want to interfere with that nice gray blue color we'll just take it a little bit to the edges but mainly we want that concentration in the middle we're going to create another layer we'll stick on the soft brush but we're going to turn it really much lower to around three percent and we'll put it up to around 50 opacity then we're going to go back to our colors but we're going to begin on the second row color so i'm going to use the first two colors to begin with so i'll use this color and you can see it's quite a green color or almost a green blue color that's quite grayed out so we'll use that one to begin with and i'm just going to have this color cutting across where the horizon is going to be now that i've started to divide this space up i feel like i want to expand the amount of room that i'm going to have available for the water and the reflection and other things on the shore and that's easy enough to do we can always amend the layers that we've got here so if we just backtrack we've got that warm glow we've got the colours at the top we'll pinch those together and we've also got the sun so we just need to move those elements a little bit and this is something that you'll constantly find with digital art and it's one of the great advantages of it is that you can shift and change things so i'm just going to narrow that a little bit more even towards the top go to the sun make sure i'm on uniform because if i want to shrink it i don't want to distort it i'm going to reduce the size of it perhaps i've reduced the size of a little too much but i'm going to move it a little bit further up anyway somewhere about there then i can go back to my layers the layer that i drew that line on and then maybe i can start to even think about moving that upwards a little bit as well so i want this horizon line to be a little bit closer to the actual center of my composition and everything else is going to have to be above that point go back to my colors i'm using again a mixture between those two colors so switch to my other color momentarily and i'm just going to start creating some features with this [Music] so i want some kind of land feature off it into the distance roughly halfway up and i'm going to alternate between the two colours just breaking up the colours so it's not all of one colour it's a mixture of the two perhaps a little bit more of the green off towards the edge i'm going to cover this section with another thing anyway and then more of this almost purple gray towards the sun perhaps like that then i can reduce the size of that brush to the lower end of two percent zoom in a little bit more and i just perhaps want to sharpen up some of those details on that horizon just so it doesn't look like a clumsy brush mark create some little textures little things here and there that might stick up who knows what they are they're often the distance it doesn't really matter as long as it doesn't look like i say like a clumsy brush mark i'm not worrying about that side i'm going to cover that up anyway and i can go back with my green color and i'm just breaking up the the texture really there or adding texture rather a little bit of a variety two different kind of colors if i wanted to perhaps use the green so perhaps towards the bottom part and off towards the edge over here is a better place to use that color and then perhaps the purple like i was saying more when it actually reaches the sun and more maybe towards the top edge okay we're going to add water here so don't worry too much about the bottom edge isn't really a problem i'm going to create another layer go back to my colors and i'm going to use these three colors now to create another section of land that cuts in front so i'm going to use this color to begin with and this third color is going to be a really dominant color in our scene so i'll just place it up to four percent opacity that size rather and i'll put the opacity at around 75 percent and as i was saying this is going to cut in front of and therefore it's higher up obscuring what i did on that side so it didn't really matter what i did behind that section and it's going to come down that we can sharpen our brush put it down to around the two percent and bring it down to meet the water somewhere in this region and then we can increase it back up to the four percent size and we can just start to fill in more areas over here let's let's increase the size let's speed this up a little bit we'll put it up to around 10 percent size just fill this in we're going to reclaim quite a lot of this but initially it's no harm in just filling in a good section of it so we've got a bit of a diagonal direction for it okay go back to our colours we'll use the fourth color along now and we'll reduce the size of our brush back down to two percent top end of two percent let's just test the color you can see it's a lot darker so i'm going to reduce the strength of it bound down to about 40 percent so it's still quite impactful but it's just not overkill and now i'm going to begin adding a change of tone perhaps perhaps there's some sections up here where there's banks of grass just on the top mound on our beach and that might go all the way across it helps just separate this foreground element compared to the background features maybe just start to tap it as it goes more over here have it as more broken textures give it a bit more width because it's getting closer to us over at this edge but we're having it quite broken quite dappled really maybe we could turn it down to around 20 strength and then we're starting to bring some more features in in a lower section too so again i'm keeping it quite and i'll show you here in another section i'm doing this kind of texture really where i'm creating an overall band but it's made up of separate strokes like that let me just backtrack and you can see i'm just pushing some of this texture along i'm going to turn the opacity down even further to around 10 now i just want to keep adding noise keep adding texture into this area keep it quite subtle and quite loose again it's more about the effect i help get you to the stage where it roughly looks right but then if you really want to spend the time just fine tuning and getting the absolute finest detail close up looking right then that's something you can take forward yourself but if i just get you to the point where it looks pretty decent and realist realistic from a distance from a zoomed out perspective then i feel like i've helped you make a step forward perhaps um so we're going to go along to the black color or it's not quite black but it's pretty much it's close to it reduce the size of the brush to the lower end of two percent and i can just start to add some black golem in here so really define perhaps the bottom edge of that band at the top because we've almost got like a thinning here and then it gets wider at the top section so just at the bottom of that top section i'm just creating a little bit of clarity along the edge but it is broken and it's just with this black color and then in this section here as well i'm just going to add some extra noise some texture again i'm not really getting too bogged down in the exacting details of this so some of it might just be bits of things that are washed up onto the shoreline we don't really need to specify what it is as long as we're creating texture and noise then we can imagine perhaps what it is so i'm just really going over and over and over building up the texture if i want to increase the power of that i can go to about 30 reserve the black for things that we're getting a bit closer to us if we do overdo the black color we can always subdue it later on so it's not an end of the world but try and just limit the amount of the sheer black color as it comes closer to us on this side so again if you wanted to increase the size of the brush too i wouldn't go much higher than about three percent for this detail you can just tap in some slightly bigger textures and blobs and then turn it back down again to the lower end of two percent again we're still on quite strong with around 30 opacity and i'm just going to go back into here and just lightly start to build up dashes dots especially where it starts to reach the edge here it will start to just disintegrate from that point break up fragment along that line now you might get some areas where there's tufts of grass and it's all collecting in one area maybe it's it doesn't get impacted by the water quite as much you might get some real dark sections where it's collections of organic matter go back to our colours and we can select one of the colours from the top to bring down into our environment so i'm going to go for this quite bright colour here so i'm really going to have to turn the the power of that down the impact of it down by putting it around five percent opacity and around the middle of two percent and underneath this dark section here at the bottom of that band i'm gonna contrast it with a lighter tone it's almost like the water reveals banding of colors so you've got an area here followed by a dark section and then it's contrasted with a couple of light bands that go underneath it and likewise here i'm going to take a little bit lower down perhaps just increase the size of that to just into three percent and just along this edge just hints of that light color creeping in fact that's a little bit too big that brush so we'll take it back down to two percent we're really on low opacity but it doesn't take much to introduce this coloring to this edge okay we can come back to that and add more texture but i'm going to create another layer i'm going to start using these colors to bring all the light down onto the wet area of the sand anywhere where it's been wet is going to reflect down some of the colors from the sky so i'm going to go to my second color along i'm going to stick with the soft airbrush but i'm going to put it at top end of 2 and just reduce the the power of it by putting it at around 50 opacity and i'm just going to start making some decisions about where i want it to come up to so it's going to in some areas rise up and then it might and some areas dip back down and we're almost creating sort of waves as it comes in and out [Music] something like that and then as it goes further into the distance as i reduce my brush to the lower end of two percent there's quite a lot of variation even just within the two percent and then as it comes into this section we can just have it raising now it's all at this angle because there's water climbing up the beach just try and stick to your you know bands up and down all generally going in that direction imagine like a see-sawing up and down up and down in that kind of an angle but as it gets further along here those ripples are going to appear smaller narrower like this [Music] until they kind of reach the water there now you can just go back in we've got the narrower brush selected and we can manipulate this with the blur tool a little later on as well but we just need to do something with this edge in fact before we do that let's just fill some of this in so we're really starting to bring some of the light down into our scene so we can just fill from that edge in that direction it helps if we use that direction or brush mark as well because the water splashes up or rises up and then it it drags back down and brings things with it and anything that is moving in that general direction is going to create a general movement so we must move our brush marks in the same direction too even if we we pretty much fill in maybe we'll see some of this area now all of that is on a separate layer so if you decide that you want to manipulate it you can go to the transform tool select the free form and then if you wanted to bring it further in and reduce or change it in any sense then you can do that now i feel like i want to take it more into the scene over here so that's why i'm doing it and just reduce it down a little bit there perhaps i feel that that perhaps works better gives me a little bit more room to play with the the water in this area too and i'm gonna i need to have some area here to do a reflection of the sun on the shore here as well so let's even distort that even further so let's try that and if you drag it from the corner if you press and hold and drag it from the corner you can actually distort it so if i wanted it to join up in that area i can press and hold there and let it distort and drag it across and you can see it stays there but it brings this whole section further down and there to suit so press and hold from the corner and again you can see that it keeps certain bits more similar and distorts only certain areas so use the tools to your advantage like that go back to my brush still on the soft brush still on around 3 and 50 opacity we'll just fill some of this in just to block it in for now but we'll go over it with some different colors let's just get rid of some of that empty area so we're going to create another layer go back to my colors i'm going to use this color at the top and that color at the top i'm going to alternate between the two and i'm going to use it just to define on this new layer this section up here now i've just got it on two percent size and 25 opacity so i'm just neatening that line there and i'm going to go to my other color but i'm going to reduce the the power of that so about 10 opacity and just start to lightly tap or drag in it into that color as it goes across leave a gap and then i'm going to start again perhaps leave another gap and just start to let it be more broken as it comes this way back to my colors i'm going to select that first color again i'm not going to change the settings now so we're on two percent and 10 and just like we did here whether you had the ripples encroaching here this time we're going to have the water [Music] edge so that is where it's the water's been now we're gonna actually start introducing the the water itself so this is the crashing water as it sweeps up the shoreline so it might follow a similar shape in a general sense to where it's been so i'm building it up gradually again it's using that direction has to make sense with the other shapes under the shape of the sand as it it rises and let's increase the size to about five percent and the strength to around 25 and let's just fill in this area a little bit so we need more of that blue or it's actually grey it only appears blue when it's next to the warmer colors [Music] let's go back to layer five where the beach details are we're going to go back to our darker colors so we'll go back to the the second one in on that second row on our airbrushing go to our medium brush this time and we'll put it at around two percent and just reduce it to about twenty percent opacity and we're just starting to build some foreground textures some things that are appearing on the beach just so it's not empty in this area really and then we can come back to the very darkest color almost black start to just carefully in sections just pick out some some shadowed bits just to really bring out some of that texture maybe the odd dot along here as well so that will do generally for the texture there we can add a couple of other tones into it a little later so we've got the edge of this blue so we're going to add some more definition to this so we're going to have to create another layer and we're going to put this on top of everything under the sun but on top of everything else we're going to use a combination of this colour and that colour on the bottom row those two colours second and third one in and we're going to stick with the medium brush turn it down to the lower end of two percent and put it at around 20 opacity and we're just going to start to bring out lightly some of the edge of this water as it comes in now it's going to have spikes that stick up again everything in that direction that momentum and it's not going to be too defined until it gets a little bit further towards so the bottom edge of this is perhaps going to create a shadow then it disappears not so much on the top edge but as we come towards the the bottom edge of that shape perhaps we create a little bit more shadow for it like this just so you're helping to start to define that now let's reduce the size or the strength of it rather to about ten percent again we're still on this third color in but the size up to two percent slightly higher and i'm just going to start to build in some texture here not going overboard with it but i'm just i'm keeping it almost like in the the sense of the movement especially on the edge so i want it to almost describe a roundness there because as the water comes in it will curl over and fold in on itself so i almost want to replicate those movements a little bit in fact you could even go that way with you the motion of your brush strokes now it's going to fold in on itself a little bit along this edge so occasionally it's going to create more of a shadow you can keep perhaps more of a dragging motion and then it folds in on itself at that very edge now this is one of the textures that's going to be the trickiest bit about this scene so just bear with it try do your best try and push this as far as you can water is always the most tricky bit but we've got you see we've got this shape here which is like this orange shape we're trying to create another version of that almost like a snaking shape that goes along the edge here so it's almost like a zigzag shape so it goes down and then up and then down again and you'll start to notice it more as it as it comes further to us so it's like it's got a width really [Music] so again it's another banded area let's go back to our colors we'll select this color along which is the fourth color we'll have it at around the two percent and we'll keep it quite low at around 10 opacity and on the same layer that we were just adding texture into that bit we'll just use this color to start bringing in the next section beyond that darker area and i'm just going to start dragging in some dapple texture into this area i'm going to leave it a little bit broken now be careful not to allow your gestures to become curves like this we want to keep it quite straight and quite short [Music] maybe it gets nearer to us we could increase the size of the brush a little bit the top end of two percent and continue we're just trying to build up the laser texture here then we can increase the size to around five percent turn it really low so about three percent opacity and just start to go over this area generally just bring out the light in that part of the water just ramp up the highlights there so we're not losing the texture but we are just softening its impact by going over it [Music] next go back to our colors go back to our colors rather we'll go through this third color in reduce the size of our brush to around again to around the lower end of two percent i do use that size brush rather a lot but i'm just going to increase the strength of what we're doing here to around 15 percent let me check that that seems about right and i'm just starting to bring in in fact let's reduce the size of that brush even more to one percent and there's just going to be sections now just dashes where we can interrupt that general light color with more noise more texture as it gets more into the distance it's going to get closer together and smaller so it's going to be like more of it so we're really trying to help build up the impression of these textures here so press lightly we've got it on a relatively low opacity anyway but you need to also at the same time press lightly so as it gets up to this area perhaps this snake like shape and direction here can continue perhaps and encroaching the water a little bit more maybe it can join up with the bank there oh sure rather and then maybe we could add a little bit of a darker section in the water here and there as it goes further away and then as you get a little bit closer we're going to increase the size of some of those little ripples i guess they're going to be more noticeable as individual shapes than they are further away and this is very much a textural element to our piece [Music] so take your time on this now generally for these videos it takes me about an hour or a little bit over an hour to paint these but then i do fast forward or speed through some of the sections where i don't talk very much but obviously if you're following along you might need to pause it and it might take you quite a bit longer and you might want to take longer on these textural areas anyway and you should do that's what i recommend if you need to go back then honestly using the pause replaying the bits that you might be stuck on is exactly what i would expect you to be doing so don't feel that you need to follow along in real time and expect it to be keeping pace i think that's making it extra extra difficult and unfair on yourself to try and aim for that so allow yourself the possibility of pausing it and catching up and then hopefully that helps now as we get along this edge it's not going to be quite as regular shaped really so it's going to be a series of blotches broken shapes perhaps we could even increase the size of the top under two percent increase the opacity to 25 and we can just start to bring in more blobs we want to leave obvious gaps between them in places and we're going to increase the the sense that there's a contrast along this edge as well so it's really quite a broken texture along here sometimes you'll get a whole series that line up as a wave and we can start to increase that sense so we'll just create a little bit of a wave there just by going over a few times change direction and you can see you've got a bit that's condensing into a shadowed area so it creates a wave impression [Music] and the next thing i'm going to do create another layer i'm going to consider where we need to put the reflection on this area here as well so we're going to go to our color so probably use this orange color and this orange color and some of the yellow as well so a mixture of those three let's just test that orange color so make sure we're still on the airbrushing medium brush in fact let's change back to the soft brush put it about four percent size and around 20 opacity and i'm just going to start building in slightly offset now i've looked at a few photographs and it seems to be that something peculiar happens when we have the sun reflected on sea shore like this and there's water coming in and it it seems to drag off the the reflection of the sun in a strange way so we're just gonna drag it off in a way that's observed i don't entirely know the science of that or the reasoning but it is quite consistently there when i've observed it different images so we'll stick with that idea and i'm just generally keeping it in this area steering off like this not too much and then we can go to our other colors go to this color again just lightly pick out the center area not too much go to our yellow color let's bring out the center of that so it really brings out some of the light now [Music] once you've created that effect we can actually experiment with something like bloom so we'll try the bloom within the adjustments try the whole layer and let's just move that along a little bit so you can really overdo it perhaps we don't need to take it that far perhaps somewhere around there will work for us now once we've got that we can go along with our smudge tool reduce the size of that to around the lower and the two percent put it about the 40 strength and we can just use the smudge tool just to disrupt that even more by dragging it left and right like this and that's going to help create a bit more of a texture on the sand like there's water and that really helps that effect i'm just going to stick with this smudge tool i'm going to go back to the layer that was here and i'm going to do exactly the same kind of thing along this edge we're just going to soften that in perhaps even turn the strength of it up so around 60 or just beyond just to break up that edge just the same motion that we did with that section there just to get the impression that it's really blending into the sand area there let's go for it let's really round this up to 100 and we'll continue that idea let's increase the size of a brush to the top under two percent let's see how far we can push this without ruining it and you can see it's just bleeding some of that in a little bit better so that's working nicely for the sand the wet sand area on this layer i'm also going to add some darker tones so i'm going to go to my colors i'm going to pick the third color in the bottom but i'm going to reduce the impact of it so i need about 10 percent i'm going to put it at the lower end of 2 and i'm just going to start building in some lines here that cut across this section and it's again using the direction that the water would have been going up the beach i'm just generally using it just to help sell that illusion a little bit more especially in this area [Music] it's too far away there to really notice it that much so we can stop it at around this point but we really need to focus it in for this section now if you feel like you've gone too far not difficult to fix you go to the smudge tool increase the size to around four percent and you can just drag some of that in a little bit more go back to my brush tool again let's start to just maybe just focus in one or two of the streaks when it gets really close to us like that that's working quite well for this section one of the areas that needs a little bit more work now is perhaps the water so let's just focus in on this area go back to our water layers predominantly this layer let's stick with the soft brush at the lower under two percent and we're going to use one or two of these darker tones so we'll go for that color it's a slightly purple color we'll have it at around the 15 strength and we just want to build on some some darker tones some shadow areas here some slightly bigger ripples perhaps that cut into this area obviously go slightly raise up and then go down and then drag across and water is one of those types of textures that you could really spend a long time trying to master and this painting is it's getting a general sense of it but there's definitely more to be learnt about water textures that i'm showing you here i'm just trying to get the overall effect in place and maybe we can spend a future tutorial just really focusing in on the exacting texture of just water i feel like it's a separate lesson in itself so i'm just trying to get a rough scent in for now just to get the general like an impressionistic version of the water without actually getting too technical with it so again alternate between those two colors perhaps increase the strength a little bit more to around 30 reduce the size down to really on the lowest edge of 2 and just start to i guess around this edge create a little bit of a dark shadow along that line the bottom edge of that water for example is going to be a little bit crisper in places anyway otherwise other times it will blend in a bit better and you can just have it sort of fading out with just a hint of it fading off [Music] and then just general keep adding to the noise until it it seems to look right for you alternate between your colors so you can go to your lighter colors but i'll just show you that again i'm going for that color just to help pick out perhaps some highlights too along that top edge [Music] go back to our gray color let's increase the size of that to around four percent just turn it back down a little bit to about 20 and let's just bring in some of that blue tone i think that will help a bit more as well we can just encourage the sense that it is blending in there just by giving it a bluey tone a blue tinge and also adjusting generally increase the believability great noise great texture the rest of the illusion will will pretty much sell the fact that that's supposed to be water anyway go to my darker color reduce my brush to one percent and it's still at the 20 i'm just going to zoom in a little bit just to pick out some of the bottom sections here create a little bit of a crisp edge just in some tiny sections but not all of it and then reduce it down to 10 opacity increase it up back to the two and maybe there can just be some sections surrounding it where it fades in and out of the sand as well generally and just with this darker tone just to create a little bit more noise as it blends there together just one or two sections here where perhaps you just get a little bit of a contrast especially around this edge you're going to get some darker tones mixed in just some dark blobs just increase the strength of 20 with this dark color so we're on this color here which is second in from the right and along this edge i'm just going to start using that darker tone to create breaks in this general color along this edge so it's like a a mottled kind of look and really this is the kind of finishing touch that should really start to finish it off create that overall illusion i mean you can't really start with this effect because there's not enough general texture to make sense of this but when you've got enough general noise and then you start adding this in then it will start to fall into place and similar along here along the very edge just some blobs like a mottled look with this dark color [Music] don't stress yourself out if you're finding this difficult water is quite tough have a go trial and error it's it's tough it's difficult go back to our layers i feel like we need to do a little bit more in this corner just to perhaps fine-tune that section so we've got the two colors here and here so again we're still on the if i just check we're still on the two percent size and we're on about the 20 opacity so let's just fine-tune some of this texture in here try to make it look a little less like brush marks that we could do that with the smudge tool couldn't we so let's use the smudge tool reduce it down to around three percent or top end or two percent just reduce the strength of it back to about 60 and let's just blur some of these brush marks in so they don't look quite so clumsy it's a really useful technique actually to smudge brush marks that look ugly into your scene it gives it a slightly soft focus look but it's sometimes better than an ugly brush mark and you can do that for anywhere that just isn't making sense you can smudge it until it all blends in a little bit more and yeah can just generally work a little bit better you can use it to define an edge you need it to be a little bit sharper in places so you can push it around until it does exactly what you needed to you can even use it to start nibbling away at the edges if you want to create a sense that there's grass and texture at the top you can do that with a smudge tool just by like i'm doing so nibbling back into that line such a great tool it's as good as a brush tool really in many ways okay last couple of details are going to go up to the layer 9 create another layer go back to my colors i'm going to use this color i'm going to increase the size of my brush to around 7 put it really low on the strength that's around five percent and i'm just going to start building in some of this real warm tone here now just okay take a couple of circular motions build it in like that i don't want to go too crazy with it but it's just helping bringing some of that information together it knocks back this bit of the distant landscape and it's just a nice finishing touch [Music] and if you've not quite achieved a smooth effect again we can just go back to our gaussian blur affect the whole layer just blur it in as much as it needs to be done just to help soften that in if you want to increase the impact of that sun well that's something we can do too we can go to the sun layer go to the adjustments go to the bloom affect the whole layer and just take it up a notch and it it really sells the illusion that it's it's a strong light source okay i'm going to leave this painting here at this point if you've enjoyed following along then make sure to hit that subscribe button press the bell notification to make sure you do get notified there are links down in the description of the video for my instagram page where you can tag me in anything you do and there's also a facebook group that you can join as well and share your work with me and the other people there give the video a like leave me a comment it really helps the video out and the channel and i'll see you back here soon see you later you

Channel: James Julier Art Tutorials

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Id: 0_w6VGP8emE

Length: 44min 10sec (2650 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021