IPAD PAINTING TUTORIAL - Woodland snow tree landscape in Procreate

okay on today's ipad painting tutorial i'm going to paint a snow woodland scene so as always i'm using the app procreate and if you want to follow along with this tutorial you don't have to use this app but if you are using it then the brushes i'm going to be using are the soft brush and that's within the airbrushing set of brushes don't confuse it with a soft airbrush at the top it is just called the soft brush it gets a lot bigger and you can also do it to a finer point or a fine point just like you can do the top one if this one is just a bit more varied a bit more flexible in terms of the colors i've selected a color swatch a color palette you look down in the description of this video there is a link to my patreon page and you can download this color file for free and within procreate i've opened an a4 canvas and if you do all of those things then you're going to be working the same as me and you're good to go okay first thing we're going to do is i'm going to use this soft brush and i'm going to turn the size of the brush up to about 15 and the opacity up to about 70 and i'm just going to use the first color that i have here on my colors which is you can see here on the color disc is somewhere between the green and the blue and it's a really light version of it i'm just going to take that color across so we're introducing it only really at the top we're not going to see too much of that color it's just really in that top section so i'm going over it a little bit and i'm pressing lightly as it goes down further down here although i'm going to go over this with a lighter color now almost straight away so the next color i've chosen is this color it's still kind of in the same region but it's a little bit more grayed out not quite as vibrant as the last color i've just used so i'll keep the brushes the same and i'm going to introduce that somewhere in the middle of that band and again bring that downwards and then straight away i'm going to go to the lighter of these three first colors and then go again with the same brush settings so if you've forgotten what they were it was 15 on the brush size and 70 on the opacity of the brush and i'm just going to introduce this a little bit lower down you're not going to see this at the bottom here anyway so what i'm going to start doing now is pressing on lightly in fact i might turn the opacity down for this around 50 and i'm pressing on a little more lightly and i'm taking this and extending it a little bit further up so i want to just dilute the impacts of those first two colors and then i'm bringing it further down here now if you're not convinced that you've done a nice transition then it's not looking very smooth all you have to do is go to the adjustments the gaussian blur move the slider along you don't have to go very far before it completely blurs out anyway i would take it to somewhere around 30 and that pretty much does the job so i'm going to have that as my first layer that is the background sky everything else is going to be a lot more foreground so i'm going to make another layer and it goes on top so on layer two before i go any further if you have a guide doing this tutorial you're really pleased with the results and want to share the results with me do make sure to check out my instagram link and my facebook group link they are also down in the description of this video okay uh the next thing i'm going to do i'm going to pick this fourth curl color along and you can see here on the color disc it's between the blue and this kind of purple colors but it is quite a grayed out version i'm going to go to the opacity and turn it down to around 40 and i'm also going to turn the size of the brush down to around four percent and i'm going to choose my horizon line so i'm going to do it a little bit lower than the halfway point now it doesn't matter if it goes a bit wobbly because if i hold it at the other end you'll see it snap to a straight line i can just fill in that end like so then i'm going to turn the size of the brush up to about eight percent and i'm just going to start feeding that color upwards now if a later point in a moment i decide that that color is a bit too dark and i want to subdue it then i can easily do that very easy to pick a color i'm thinking it's going to be perfect and then later you may think it's a bit too saturated but we'll see it may well be that this color is absolutely fine but what i'm going to do next is going to turn the size of the brush down and i'm going to start using the brush to start creating some texture at the top and i think i'll actually reduce the opacity for that so i'm going to turn it down to around 20 and i'm just going to blend it in in place so i'm creating some top areas of the trees here they're going to be pretty subdued so it doesn't matter too much what the texture is like it just doesn't want to be a flat straight edge really so imagine the tops of trees maybe some evergreen trees though there perhaps is some foliage and we're getting a slightly irregular top canopy of those trees you could at this point if you wanted to try a different brush i quite like using the leather wood brush you'd have to be really careful to get the settings right i would again reduce it maybe to around 20 maybe turn the size of the brush up and you could perhaps use this experiment create some textures with the top section there it's really going to be subdued by other things anyway so you're not going to see it too strongly but it might be a quicker way of creating that texture if you if you prefer to use this kind of texture brush and i'm going to go back to my airbrush again i'm going to do this by hand i'm going to pick out just some of the trees that are poking through at the top and just exaggerate it in certain places because you're going to get layers of trees anyway so there might be some that are more prominent and then others where it just blends in a little bit more there's going to be no more texture behind this row of trees this is the very background feature apart from the sky obviously not really going to bother with any clouds for the scene doesn't really need it it kind of fade of colors in the sky in the background is perfectly good enough for what we need on this layer you could just as i was saying before just subdue it slightly and i think there might be some value in that i'm going to reduce it to 85 and i think that it might just work a little bit better if we decide later on in the tutorial we want to ramp it back up and make it more saturated again then when we can do that before i create another layer i'm going to go along to my last color here and i'm just going to use that color at the bottom of this tree color area so i'm going to put it at around just into the four percent i'm still on that low opacity of 20 and i'm just going to introduce that color at the bottom of my trees just so it's not completely flat it has a bit of a range i think that will work a bit more nicely okay i'm going to create another layer and i'm going to move along to my next row of colors so you'll notice i've got two different colors here we've got colors within the yellow orange area and but it's quite grayed out so it gives a real earthy natural color and we've got again a grayed out kind of lavender color really or kind of more within the purple i'm going to use this color first checking my brush i'm still on the soft brush i'm going to reduce the size of that to about two percent i'm going to increase the opacity to around 30 and see how that looks so i'm going to start these trees a little bit further down than that horizon line and i'm going to take them up perhaps i'm going to reduce the size of the brush just a little bit so it's the lower end of two percent because even within one of the percentage points that's still two percent here and that's still two percent so i've reduced it down to the lower point of two percent i'm going to do some trees that extend both below the horizon line and above the tree canopy of the background by just a small amount for the most part some of them can be shorter some can be slightly thicker trunks especially if they go a bit higher they probably require a bit more of a sturdy trunk at the base and then other ones can be slightly smaller try to achieve something slightly random so it doesn't look like there's a an obvious pattern to it it doesn't matter if they lean slightly one way or the other again you're going for something that looks natural so it's going to vary a little bit if you do them too regimented then it won't look natural i try to explain this whenever i do something that repeats itself you don't want it to repeat in exactly the same way it needs a little bit of variety so i'm going to go to this next color along and i'm just going to reduce the size of the brush to the top end of one percent so it needs to be a little bit smaller because all we're going to do is we're going to use that slightly more purpley color which is pretty much the same color as the background just a shade darker and on one side of the trees i think the other side actually would work better i'm going to do shadow on the right hand side of the trees but not necessarily absolutely all the way from top to bottom maybe the shadow would have a slight break in it in places it might be that some of the trees have other trees that go immediately in front of it and it casts more of a shadow on it in certain areas and so you end up with some slightly darker shading on one side of the tree darker shadows but just the general effect that there is light within the scene coming from a particular direction and you're getting a bit more shadow on one half of the tree but again keep it not too regimented you want to do approach it in a slightly different way for each tree so it could be more broken on one or two of them and then more solid on some others something like that i'm going to create another layer i'll probably go back and do some extra texture on those trees but i'm still going to move forward anyway so i'm going to move across to these two colors now now it's a slightly more vibrant again it's still within the orange colors or between the orange and the yellow but we've moved out of the gray area and we've gone slightly more saturated so you can see there is a difference in saturation here on the color swatch and we've also got again within the purple area it is more squarely within the blue than quite in the purple and it's a lot darker as well so with this color i'm going to create some trees that are just slightly further down now the more you come down towards you the viewer and further down from that horizon point that's generally speaking going to be because the trees are a little bit closer to you so you're gonna have to show them as bigger and perhaps they'll extend up into your sky area a little bit more as well now i'm reluctant to get into too much detail with these trees because many of them are going to be covered by really big foreground trees so if i spend ages going into the tiniest of details and textures at this point then i'm going to be reluctant to cover up with a much bigger item but it's still useful to get some of them in they are going a little bit higher so just like i say they start lower down because they're closer to you but they're also going to be taller or taller so they're going to also extend into the sky more too again we will come back to that layer but we're going to create another layer go back to our colors and if we move along you can see we've got two more colors here sorry these colors we've used those two we've used those two and now we're going to have a go at these two so this color is definitely more of a green color when you have objects that get further into the distance especially in a landscape you're going to find that the colors will cool off as a tree that has green on it gets closer to you you're going to find it warming up and getting more vibrant and more obviously the color you would expect it to be so you can see it's heading towards a saturated version of that color now and it's going to be a much greener version of what the other trees are so again a little bit lower down and i'm going to make the tree a little bit wider at the base as well so i'm going to turn the opacity up for this up to about 45 and we're going to make these trees really nice and big so they're going to go off the top of the frame really and they're quite untidy the way i'm doing it but it's fine we can always tidy up anything that's needs tidying up later on in the tutorial you can also use a combination of the colors so although i've been using some colors for the further away trees it doesn't mean you can't combine them with the colors that you add later on you don't only have to stick in the background you can use some of them and put them into these trees as well so i'm going to take the the previous color which was here and you can see it's more orangey version and i'm going to combine that with this more green color as well and the two in combination perhaps work better than each one individually so again i'm going to go to the darker colors in combination with it and you can see it's going to be a warmer version of this purple as well i'm just going to use it to bring out the shading or the shadow rather on one half of the tree trunk now i didn't do that on the previous layer of trees today that was something i forgot to do i can go back and do that in a moment but i'll finish these four grand trees first and then we'll go back and adjust those ones so we go back a layer onto these trees and we'll go back to our color here as well and we'll use that to add some of the shadows to these trees i'll probably turn the opacity down for that back to somewhere around 30 a little too saturated for these particular trees like so so i'm going to create another layer make sure to put this layer at the top and i'm going to go back to my colors now you'll see i've got three more colors here and i'm going to use these colors to do some more kind of feature trees in this area as well so the first color would turn the opacity back up to around 45 and i'm going to use this color to create a feature tree so it's going to be a slightly more unusual shape it's going to stand out a little bit more maybe it's a different type of tree that has more branches coming off it and then i'm going to go to my other colors and i'm going to introduce some of these really lighter tones on here as well now remember the lights going from this side predominantly so i'm going to apply more of that light color onto that side maybe lighten up some of these smaller branches again we're going to add a lot more finer branches and foliage into certain areas anyway so that will help it blend in a bit more i can also use this light color to perhaps just make one or two more of the background trees seem more interesting as well maybe add just the hint that there's more going off in this area in terms of other branches and more interest now i'm starting to see the overall effect i think i'm going to go back a few layers so i've got this first layer of trees i'm going to go back to that and the first colors that i was using were these two colors here so i'm going to go back to this color and i'm just going to start making some more noise in the background really so i don't want it to be too flat looking some branches that just gently come off some of the trees in the background maybe add some further up i'm pressing quite lightly the opacity is quite high actually so i'm going to turn that down i'm going to move it down to about 25 but i'm still going to press lightly i want these to be there but i don't want them to attract too much attention it's more about a background texture at this point really now i am confusing the trees up a little bit i'm adding small branches to any of the trees that happen to be in this area i'm just adding texture doesn't really matter okay i'm going to come back to some more of those trees i'm going to create another layer and i'm going to make sure i'll put this layer at the top so it's layer 7. try and keep them in numerical order so it goes on the very top and what i'm going to do is i'm going to come down to my colors at the bottom i'm going to select this color which is the second in from the right we're going to turn the or the size of the brush up to around 4 and the opacity up to about 60 percent that's going to seem really too strong really initially and that's fine but we're going to adjust it add things to it and hopefully you'll start to see the point of it a little later on so we're going to try create a big trunk here you don't have to copy the shape of the trunks precisely it could be a little bit different and maybe a big trunk here again i did say don't be too precious about what you do in the background it could be that you want to create something and it completely obliterates what you just done and then sometimes that's just the way that things develop with a piece of artwork if you did decide that you don't like the placement of it and you wanted to move it slightly so that it allowed for a background feature to be a bit more visible then you can move it around you can also make some smaller branches that do grow out from that tree refine the edges a little bit as branches go further along they're going to get thinner and thinner so by all means add more branches but just remember as they go along they should be getting thinner all the time so you can have some branches that really twist and go into different shapes in different directions maybe turn the size of the brush down and turn it down to two percent now and some of these branches have branches that come off them i'm releasing the pressure a little bit too so initially i'm pressing on but then i'm letting go so that it disappears and it blends with the background a little bit more [Music] so once you've got the overall tree shape um i would suggest you go back to colors and you've got two different colors here slight variation similar ish but one's more in the orange and ones more slightly more towards the yellow but the one that's slightly more towards the yellow because it is a grayed out version it gives the general appearance of being slightly more green now with this i would stick to the airbrush that we've been using for everything keep it at maybe at the top end of two percent maybe turn the opacity down to about 40 and what i recommend doing is just starting to add a hint of broken texture in there now you can use this texture to suggest shapes and directions of the bark maybe turn it down even more so you're at the lower end of two percent and you can use this to really help describe the shape of your tree so you're going to have textures that all bunch together and maybe see the pair to go around it might be a point like here where the textures seem to break apart and you almost have a split in the trunk of the tree some bits you can just join all up and then perhaps with the other color depending on which one you've just used i've forgotten how i think i've used the one that was on the right hand side i'm going to go for this color now it's a slightly lighter color and remember we're having light coming from this direction roughly speaking so with a slightly lighter color you may wish to add more of it onto this side of the tree too but we also have really dark color here it's pretty much black and we're going to use this very sparingly because it will easily dominate so we're not changing the settings we've got it below 2 and still around the 40 percent and in fact we could even do the for lower than 40 maybe about 25 and i'm just going to gradually start adding maybe a shadow some shading onto this side of the tree because again the lights coming from over here therefore you're going to get more shading on this part of it but you might have some of the bark where it has deep recesses and therefore the light doesn't get into that area so you're going to see a real dark tone there so anyway you have a split in the tree for example you're not going to get as much light getting into that part [Music] so it may be that there are whole parts of the tree that are casting shadow onto other parts so because this branch may start to be almost growing from around the back this part of it is actually creating a shadow on that section of it so you can add a real dark bit onto this part and the same could be happening for this section of it so it could be that this part is actually creating a shadow on this part and this part this branch doesn't get a lot of sunlight or this one it might be there are branches that are higher up and they are casting some kind of shadow across the tree again we can have more shadows because there's going to be a lot more branches a little higher up here so not branches you can see but doesn't matter you're going to see the impact that they have on the shadows that they cast on the rest of the tree so sometimes it's the things that you can't see that have the most dramatic effect on the way that everything else looks again we can go back to our colours and in between where the shadows are because whenever you have a real strong shadow it's because you've got a lot of light hitting that area in general so wherever there's a strong shadow there's probably going to be a strong light area to contrast with it so can get our colors at any time we can borrow from the colors above as well so i might use this color even though it's far too light and turn the opacity really down to around five percent and i can just carefully start to introduce that into the textures i might even be a bit braver and turn it back up to about ten percent maybe turn the size of the brush down to the top end of one percent and i can use this now maybe in like dashes really broken texture so it doesn't dominate and add to the noise add to the texture of that tree i can use that texture all the way along this branch it's a particularly big branch that comes off it these other colours are going to work really well too if i'm using those other colours i'd probably turn the opacity up a bit more go back to my light colour try it out so there's stronger opacity it's probably going to be a bit too strong but that 45 but depends if you press really lightly it might create the the effect you want you just have to use it in a different way if you use it more saturated i would generally say press on a bit more lightly and you'll find the right balance along this edge i'm really putting a lot of the highlight along that edge it's okay to have a dark edge here but it also means that probably you're not going to have a darker edge on the other side as a result might turn the opacity down a little bit actually more like around 20 so i'm going to be using this lighter color just to add some more broken texture [Music] go back to your other colors keep varying it up the more you vary the dip between those few colors the more interesting and kind of more believable the texture is going to be just turning the opacity up a little bit i want to extend the base of this tree trunk into the snow maybe extend it here a little bit as well go back up here add some of the color into this area i feel like i'm going to add more shadows and more highlights as i go along i may decide that some of these shadows are a little bit too strong gonna want to break them up a little bit with some more of these light colors just chip away at them [Music] go back to this brown color maybe that black was a little bit too dark so i'm just subduing it slightly with this more brown color you have to make these judgments sometimes you add something and it looks fine initially but then the more you look at it it looks like it's just overwhelming and too powerful a color or two high impact okay i'm going to come back to that tree i feel like i need to keep moving forward so i'm going to create another layer and on this layer i'm going to do another tree so i'm going to turn the size of the brush up to about four percent and have the opacity about 60 like i did before and i'm just going to add another tree in so i'm going to lean this off slightly in fact i may add a couple of trees to one here but it's not going to come as far down so it's not going to be quite as big or as close to us and then maybe another one here as well to accompany it i'm going to do some branches coming off this tree again they should get thinner as they go along so i'm just going to spend a little bit time refining these trees smarten up the edges i'm going to do the exact same process that i did on that tree and use the same colours so if i call all my colours now i've got these colours here and probably some of the highlights of those colours as well so i'll start with this colour again perhaps turn the opacity down to around 40 percent i'm keeping it really loose broken texture for there and there i can go again to my dark clothes i might actually go for this color here so when we're still in the second row i'm going to go for this purple color and rather than the black there i'm going to use this purple because it's slightly further away so i'm going to just experiment try this purple color for the dark side of the tree and see how that looks so just like i added some shadow on this branch i'm going to try the same here but with the purple maybe turn the sides of the brush down a little bit so i can be more precise maybe i have some more branches coming off too again we've got branches coming up from the top so maybe they are casting shadows maybe the branches that i have here are actually creating shadows off [Music] themselves [Music] i'll do the same again for this other tree okay i'm going to come back to the trees i'm not happy with the way they are for now but i will come back to them so i'm going to create another layer and i'm going to start looking at my colors and i think that i really want to focus in on trying to create a snow effect at this point so on my new layer i'm actually going to put it behind all of my trees so it's going to go even behind the background trees that i did earlier on the first color i'm going to use is the second color in actually not the first one the first one is for the real highlights this first color represents the color that i want a general background color to be now i've not got it on 100 opacity i just want to be a little bit back from there so you see i've got it on the 60 i'm going to turn the size of the brush down and i'm just going to use this as an opportunity now just to add a bit more noise a bit more texture generally into the scene keep it quite scruffy at this point it doesn't matter too much okay next thing i'm going to do is move along my colours to this color is the third color along i'm going to turn the size of the brush down to around three percent keep it on the 60 opacity and i'm going to look at the trees that i have i'm going to start creating shadows so again the lights coming from this side so the shadows are going to cast off going in this direction [Music] so that's just for the shadows for the few trees that i've got now i'll do the same effects but perhaps keep it a little bit more rough for the trees in the background so really reduce the size and maybe the shadows are going to be a bit more broken in the background the snow is not going to be completely flat if it's completely flat then it would all go absolutely in the same direction but some of these perhaps appear on the sides of snow that is undulating and going up and down so the shadows are going to be more varied too so you've got lots of branches up here maybe some of the branches are casting shadows up here as well so you don't necessarily need to see all of the things that cast a shadow so likewise i could do a tree that's over here and you can't see turn the size of the brush up to around four percent but maybe it's still casting shadows into the scene an individual branch is even but you just can't see what's creating that and that's perfectly fine next thing i'm going to do is looking at my colors i'm going to go along to this lightest of the colors i'm going to turn the size of the brush down to around two percent and i'm going to just start bringing in some blotches of texture into the lighter parts of the snow i don't want it to look too smooth i need to need it to look more textured especially in those lighter parts i would avoid putting this in the shadowed areas i would just concentrate on putting it in the lighter parts now we could create some kind of a trench in here so maybe something's been dragged through the snow maybe um in which case we could create a trench that cuts through in areas maybe not through the shadow actually maybe more like i say concentrated in the areas where the shadow doesn't dominate quite as much and we can go back to our dark color here as well and maybe have i'm sorry we didn't use that one did we the one before that which was this one and we can create a shadow on this half and then lighter on the other bit that is pointed towards the actual light source now whenever you've got a light feature of texture again just like we've done here you might do shadow on one side it's like a dimple like a recess in the snow to cast a shadow slightly into that sunken area so maybe snow has fallen down from a tree branch and actually landed in the snow and created a recession there you can alternate between those two colors so if it's got a shadow on one side it's going to have a lighter bit on the other side so you can really play around with that effect now within the shadows you could try perhaps a darker color and if you turn the opacity down to around 20 maybe in the shadows you could even have some more texture in there as well so it doesn't look completely flat and then maybe within the snowy areas you have some pebbles and rocks and other things that may have fallen down so i'm going to use this brown color that was down here and turn it up to 60 again turn the size of the brush down to about top end of one percent or beginning of two percent and just start adding some brown features little specks you don't need to go overboard with this just add a few so maybe there's a couple of branches that are growing out from the ground even from a tree near the base just the snow doesn't look absolutely pristine maybe turn the opacity down maybe that's a bit too strong you can do it a bit more subtly to turn it down to the 25 roughly and press lightly as well correct some noise within the snow just so it's not completely pristine looking maybe some branches that are just randomly sticking up from the ground here and there okay i think we should really add some snow to some of the branches because we've got snow on the ground i think it's probably sensible if we add some snow to the branches so i'm going to add another layer i'm going to put this on the top of all of the trees so right at the top we've got layer 10 all the way up there and what i'm going to do is i'm going to start adding some snow perhaps send the opacity up to 60 again add some snow onto some of the branches like this maybe it could be broken snow at the base of the tree as well so you get a smattering of snow breaking up the texture here at the [Music] bottom so it's at this point where you start adding snow onto some of these features that it starts bringing the the background and the tree features more together and it starts integrating the two things together better as well as that general color you can go to slightly darker blue maybe create shadows on the tree maybe that's not even darker maybe go to this blue and on the underside of the snow you can add that darker blue maybe on the top side of the snow you can add a white and you're creating a real variation of the types of white there and because it whenever it creates like a really large clump of snow it's probably going to cast a shadow all of its own as well alternate between these different types of bluey white if you find that you're adding snow to an area and it looks too similar to the background then perhaps go for the lighter color sometimes you can try a color for a feature and it just doesn't make it stand out well enough so perhaps you need to add a more exaggerated version because it is a painting at the end of the day and if you want something to stand out then you sometimes have to force the colors and the contrast to really make something look how you want it to look even if you had a photograph that you were using as a basis and you're copying from that there's nothing to stop you adding things to the areas that you want because you think it would suit it and improve the overall look to alternate between your colors create shadows so i'm using this darker blue now to perhaps just focus on the base of my tree and add some slight even darker shadows around the base of this tree i feel like i'm still going to need to add more trees to the scene then there's some areas where it looks a bit blank and i'm gonna fill it in add more texture but first of all i'm gonna continue adding these shadows and highlights to the branches to add more snow to the trees and the scene i'm just having some broken texture here at the base of the tree just so it doesn't look quite so artificial it kind of grounds the two things together it merges them together a little bit better i think i'm going to go back to my tree layer here i've got one here and i've got one here it doesn't really matter what you do it on i'm going to pick layer 7 where i had this main tree and i feel like i want to add another tree slightly behind it i think i might avoid that brownie color i think i'll go straight for these two colors here and i just want to add a nice tree into this area go back to the purple and the blue colors here to add shadow onto one side of the tree i don't want to use the black too much i think because it's slightly more distanced or in the distance i think the the shading is going to be more blue than it is black so i've used the real black colors for here but any shadows that appear on these trees they're going to be a slightly more blued out version of it or purple as well is fine as long as it's slightly more subdued either one of course any tree that i might add for the background also needs a shadow so if i want to start adding shadows i can i can start to place it immediately on any of the layers that i'm working on but just for the sake of consistency and where the shadows are i'll go back to that snow layer and we'll use one of these two blues perhaps that one initially and we'll add shadow for these particular trees maybe try the even darker one just to really drive home that idea otherwise it's easy to perhaps not notice the shadow at times so just start exaggerating there might be a little bit too much in fact turn it down if you want to exaggerate some of the shadows and some of these ones closer to as well then you can use this darker blue to do so go back to my tree layer again i'm gonna try a few more trees too again using these two colors that's one that's just going off the edge here again i need to keep alternating the opacity as you go along to suit the different elements so if you're creating another tree trunk i need the opacity a little higher [Music] perhaps a few more in this area too perhaps one a bit more central maybe a few in the central area actually so if you find there's an area that you're not really happy and you don't feel like it's quite working then add a few more trees why not so again working with the shadows this bluey color turn the size of the brush down shadows on one side of the tree more than the other again it could be a broken texture so i'm still working on this layer with the trees i'm going to go back to my colors i'm going to continue adding texture i'm not happy that i'd finish with the texture now that i'm getting some more elements i think perhaps i'll just zoom in a little bit i try to avoid zooming in too much but i feel sometimes it is necessary even within these tutorials where i try not to get into absolute detail but we're just going to zoom in a little bit add a bit more texture so using some of the lighter colors too you can pick colors from anywhere on your color palette now at this point if you find you've got some layers in the background or like there for example and you want to add more of them you can just duplicate the layer move it around so i'm going to flip it horizontally like that and you really can create a lot more without too much of you know effort really so i'll just remove that layer you can see i've added quite a lot more noise in the background and it's a really nice fix for creating a slightly busier area and you can do that for another layer too so i'm going to duplicate duplicate that perhaps shift it around a bit one thing that i will say actually is if you do duplicate it and flip it obviously the shadow was moved to the other side so you might just have to do some minor adjustments here and there if that's affected it adversely i'm just going to move it over to this section over there so i'm going to go to the top layer here so it was the top layer of the background trees just before we had the foreground tree so i'm gonna go into this layer six and i'm gonna go along my branch colors i'm gonna pick this third color along and i'm gonna use this now with a smallish brush and maybe just at the top end of 1 and turn it down to around 40 opacity and i'm going to use it just to start adding some more branches some more noise in the background so anywhere where i think there's too much sky showing through and it just looks like there should be more branches in that background i'm just going to use this time for the next minute or two just to add some more branches so it breaks up some of the sky that's showing a bit too much next thing i can do on these top layers is add more of the branches there too so if you remember the some of the branch colours we were using at the top i'm going to go for that brown colour i'm going to have it splitting off more of these branches because that will add more noise to the scene as well have them splitting off and splitting off again i'm going to go to my shadow color i'm going to pick this lighter of the purples actually it was a color i initially used for the background trees but i think for some of these middle distance trees i think it would be a really useful shadowy color without being too powerful and it's just going to help me add some more shadows and texture on some of some of these tree trunks without being overpowering without bringing them too far forward into the scene do make sure for every single tree if we go back to layer 9 which was our snow layer that you're adding a shadow for each and every one of those trees so any of them that don't have a shadow is going to look really strange so you must ground them by giving them a shadow of their own if they're strong enough to feature in your scene then they definitely deserve a shadow of their own as i said before if you have some features that are not quite in the scene doesn't mean they're not going to be powerful enough to have their own shadows so include those as well if you have a shadow that goes into a trench it's going to actually move with it so go down into the trench and then up to the bank and then flatten out again like that or if you have a bigger shadow here for example let's make a bigger shadow like this it would reach that point it would go down and then up and then flatten out like that for example i'm going to go to layer 10 where all the snow was and we're going to continue to add some of that into the base of our trees so perhaps turn the size of the rush down to one percent keep it at 60 why not really add some more texture onto some of these distant trees where the snow is really clinging to it in areas again alternate between the blues and the pale color i thought the blue would be a really good color to use in the background it's gonna be a little bit more subtle it'll still look like snow but it won't it won't jump out quite as much [Music] again alternate between your different colors add some more highlights add some more textures onto your different trees i think at this point of the painting it's more about textures than it is about anything else so break up your tree trunks with more texture so you can hear me tapping on the screen and that is the way that i would recommend you approach it it's not to keep it as a consistent touching of the glass i would keep lifting it tapping the texture onto it [Music] i'm also going to go as i was before between these different colors i'm going for this middle row and this purple dark purple color and i'm going to use it to create some shadows as i was doing before remember sometimes a shadow on a particular form is just going to really make it work so it might be that it has a shadow that's been cast from something else nearby or it might be that you're only seeing the underside of it so yeah all you're gonna see is a shadow on that form so just like here that is the underside it's not having something casting a shadow on it it's just all the light would be on that top edge and you're seeing mainly the underside of it so what you do mainly see is its shadow side maybe add more shadow onto this part of the tree i feel like i could really add quite a bit more shadow onto this side in fact [Music] so i'm just using this remember which color i'm on i think it was this color wasn't it i'm just using this color so in combination with the black color that was using guineas i'm using this purple just to bring out some real nice dark tones in the recessed areas i mean at this stage in a painting i can really get carried away with texture and bringing out the subtle details and i think sometimes this is the point in a painting where it's it's it really can come together start to really think well what could make it better maybe a couple more details couple more features could really enhance what you've already got so i'm doing these low-lying branches and i think these are a nice detail that is really starting to bring out a little bit more in the scene too add a bit more shadow to my tree trunks especially on this side so maybe these parts of this tree could actually be creating big shadows on this tree further back perhaps we see it as it impacts along the ground but maybe this tree is also casting a shadow on that one and maybe it's so big a shadow it even has an impact on the one behind it like that and that starts to bring things together a little bit better as well i decided i'm not really happy with this tree trunk so i'm going to figure out what layer that was on and see if i can remove it so the great thing about digital is you can go back through the layers it's on that layer and use my eraser and just get rid of that tree i don't like what it's doing to the scene so we'll get rid of it completely and anything i've added on the top layer i can just erase and it's completely gone now not to say i want nothing in that area but i can choose to put something a little bit different so maybe i could extend the branch that's going off here so it's a little bit more similar to that maybe even make it more substantial something like that go back to my shadows exaggerate some of the shadows coming off some more of these trees work on some of these little blobs and textures in the foreground not entirely sure what they could be but doesn't really matter just breaks up the look of the snow a little bit more maybe go to a more earthy color mix it in there as well because the black maybe in the distance you could go for a a bluey color and you could do the same effect but with a bluey color instead go back to my highlights especially that white maybe it could really just pick out one of two features check which layer i'm on i'm on this top snow layer so it should appear on top of everything else quite happily now quite easily maybe just pick out some of the highlights that cut through everything else because they are important so again is it also another feature that is about highlighting contrasts it really can help the drama of a particular scene if you have a slight higher more dynamic contrast between elements go to my lighter color here just take the opacity down to around the 20 work some of these lighter colors into the texture of various different trees i'm going to spend a little bit of time doing that maybe turn the opacity up a little bit up to about 30 be a bit braver [Music] i'm gonna go to my brown color and just work on some of the shadows especially on this foreground tree just stop it being quite so so black warm it up slightly maybe a little bit more here actually a bit less so for the slightly more distant ones but certainly for this foreground one a bit more of the warmer tone would really go a long way go back to my second color here i'm going to add a little bit more of that color for the base of the trees just really bring out some of these background ones a little bit stronger where i think it's required maybe create a little bit more of a slightly exaggerated bit of noise and shadow around the base of some of these trees because whenever you get a base of a tree you might have first of all you might get stuff that's dropped down from the actual tree itself but you're going to get a concentration of shadow perhaps as well i think i might just reduce the effects of some of these creases in this particular tree down here maybe use the highlight just to pick out the edge of the ones that i do want to keep working my shadow especially on this main tree because i want that to really be the most dominant feature in the landscape so i need to make sure that i get these elements correct for this and for that one too for that matter a bit more snow just up in spots in areas of the trees you can go overboard with this you don't need to do too much so just elements of it here and there is enough to suggest it your imagination can fill in the blanks okay i'm gonna leave this tutorial here at this point i could work into it in finer detail i could spend hours on a piece like this but i just wanted to get it to the stage where it looked convincing is the overall effect and i hope that you've learned something by following along or just watching it do make sure to subscribe check out my playlist and the links in my description and i shall catch you back here again see you later

Channel: James Julier Art Tutorials

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Length: 48min 45sec (2925 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 12 2020