A Work in Progress: Beaver!!!



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Beaver!!!
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The sky is a simple blue gradient.

Creation of Beaver!!!: Step 1

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Using a natural brush I added low opacity layers of dark blue, to give the sky more depth.

Creation of Beaver!!!: Step 2

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Again with the natural brushes I added the clouds and used the blur and smudge tools to create the fluff in the clouds.

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The grass is just two layers of light and dark green smudged together with the smudge tool.

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Copied the grass layer and added some gaussian blur to give depth of field.

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The tree was created using the pen tool, then used several different browns and smudged them for grain and also added dodge and burn

Creation of Beaver!!!: Step 6

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Drew a rough outline of a beaver with a thin brush,

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To create the fur I used the smudge tool and dragged the fur out.

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added teeth with pen tool coloured slightly yellow, burned and dodge, started to add more shadows/highlights to the tree and beaver

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Added the leaves with a default leaf brush, used several different layers of colour to give leaves more natural look,

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added thew tree eyes with pen tool and dodged and burned, used more smudge tool to shape the face more and add eyebrows.

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Final result

Creation of Beaver!!!: Final Result

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