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Painting “The Nightmare” in Photoshop

Step 17

And also I do add some strokes with the Dodge tool too. I use this because I want to add some slight light areas on the clouds.

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Step 18

Now pay attention at the details which I just make with the color dodge option. I closed some layers for you to see more clearly the details of the big rock. And I continue to adding details on the rock too.

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Step 19 - Detailed Colouring for the Illustration

Once I’m satisfied with detailing the clouds I began detailing for the other stuff on the illustration. I added some red and yellow colours on the bottom of the image.

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Step 20 - Continue to adding more Details

I continue to add more details for the clouds and here a screenshot for the main details. Now I’m executing on the high contrast for the clouds and the rocks by adding some bright tones to the side, darkening the back and putting in some highlights to it’s outline.

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Step 21 - Adding Shadows on the Rock

And here I decided to make some new changes on the illustration . Here as you see position of the rock must be like this now. Now I’m going to add colour to the character. By the way don’t forget at this step you don’t have to detail everything.

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Step 22

At this point I kept working on main details and lights, until I got a nice and contrast. Sometimes I have to change some colors on the rock and delete some details of it.

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Step 23

Now we can start out detailing rock. I also used Colour Dodge tool for the bright areas. This is how it looks once all the adjustments are done with the Colour Dodge and Burn tool.

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Step 24

I do want some difference at the bottom of our rock. First choose the rock layer and after that choose Edit/Transform/Warp.

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Step 25

And make some changes with that. After from the sampe panel select the Warp option and some changes as I did.

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Step 26

Here as you see position of the big rock must be like this.

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Step 27 - Detailing Character

Now that after finished working on the rock and the clouds I have decided to add more details to my little cartoon girl character. Here let me show you my basic colouring for my character. I have just closed the sketch layer for the see how is looking my character painting. I can start to add details. In this step I started with detailing clothes of my character.

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Step 28

I can start to add more details. Here I have opened and pulled the basic sketch for you to see how it is looking. As you see there is no much difference on the colour work. Now we can again close the character sketch layer.

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Final Results

And here’s the final image. I hope you found this tutorial interesting.

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Authors Comment

profileI hope you found this tutorial informative, hopefully you can use some of the techniques here for your own painting. Practice and have fun!

- www.3d2dizayn.com

 

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