Digitally Painting Forest Concepts in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll begin by discussing the usefulness of sketching thumbnails for potential forest concepts followed by blocking in rough shapes for the foreground, mid-ground, and background elements of our forest.
What you'll learn
In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll begin by discussing the usefulness of sketching thumbnails for potential forest concepts followed by blocking in rough shapes for the foreground, mid-ground, and background elements of our forest. From here we'll focus on refining the contours of these flat shapes so elements like trees, leaves and other visuals appear more natural in our scene. In addition we'll also discuss the mood of the scene we're wanting to establish and the color choices that will help reinforce this. After blocking in our composition we'll begin the process of painting and defining the form of various elements in our scene. Along the way we'll explore how we can use both custom and default Photoshop brushes to help with painting various types of foliage to appear more natural. Finally, we'll spend some time adding final details to unify our forest concept. After watching this Photoshop training, you'll have the inspiration to digitally paint your own forest concepts in a way that will save you time and help push and strengthen your creativity.
Table of contents
- Sketching Thumbnails 10m
- Sketching Additional Thumbnails 10m
- Blocking in the Foreground Base 10m
- Blocking in the Background and Mid-ground Shapes 11m
- Refining the Shapes of Visual Elements in Our Forest Composition 12m
- Establishing Form on Foreground Elements 11m
- Continuing to Build up the Foreground Elements 7m
- Adding Color and Light to the Mid-ground and Background 8m
- Painting Moss and Leaves in the Foreground 8m
- Painting in Some Atmosphere 9m
- Painting Overall Details 10m
- Continuing to Refine Our Forest 10m
- Final Lighting Details 6m
About the author
Kurt is a design tutor at Pluralsight. Ever since he could hold a crayon, Kurt has been in love with drawing. Apart from his dedication to training artists at Pluralsight, Kurt has an extensive background in illustration. He has previously worked for a book publisher, as well as Rhythm and Hues Studios. It was through his extensive industry background that Kurt learned the way of the Wacom, and that the Pen tool is truly mightier than the sword. Along with creating beautiful 2D illustrations,... more