A Work in Progress: A Garden's Beauty



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I tried to use the pen tool, but I am not as good as using a simple pencil tool to draw the center of the rose. I made the outline with a 1 px hard brush. I am providing a SBS sequence to see how this beautiful rose was made.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 1

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I continued drawing the surrounding petals to start forming the shape of the rose.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 2

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The rose is formed. I will start adding the colors. For this rose I choose kinds of peach colors. I have a rose in the garden, it is called "Brandy" but the colors are darker in tone, so I decided to use not so dark colors.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 3

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I took some ART class long ago, but still remember hos to use dark colors to begin the shadows, and from there to add lighter color to the top of the petals. So, I am starting with darker colors.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 4

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For this, I filled the petals with more color, with a 50% transparency and a 9 to 13 size soft brush. I used the smudge tool carefully to blend the colors nicely.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 5

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Continued filling more petals with color. As I said, it is better to work with transparent colors to begin with, and then add more color to the transparency, and blend them.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 6

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Colors were blended the same way I did before. Just using the smudge tool.

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Same procedure, again, and again.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 8

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The blending of the petals is almost done, and the rose is about to be finished.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 9

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Here is the rose, now I will add a background and some leaves.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 10

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Background is spraying some colors around, with a 300 size soft brush.

Leaves are same procedure as the blending of the rose petals.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 11

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Here is the final image. The layer with the outlines was taken away to leave the rose by itself.

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Step 12

Final result

Creation of A Garden's Beauty: Final Result

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