A Work in Progress: Castle Highwind

This guide was made for entry:
Castle Highwind
In Contest:
castle designs

step 1 of 9

Created a bg with the gradient tool. Then brushed the distant mountains and part of the sea.

step 2 of 9

Put some details in the mountains and added a some clouds.

step 3 of 9

Created the foreground of the background.

step 4 of 9

Used the brushtool for the trees. I use a graphic tablet and a "hard" brush to get a ruff effect, not the standard brushtool.

step 5 of 9

Another tree in the foreground. Again used all sorts of scatter and hard brushes with a small pixelsize.

step 6 of 9

Brushed the leaves, again with a scatter brush. This time a large pixelsize.(25-50px)

step 7 of 9

Created the castle. When you draw buildings, make sure you decide quikly where the lightsource is coming from.

step 8 of 9

Details in the castle, thats just a lot of zooming and using small brushes.(2-5px)

step 9 of 9

Made the first part of the castle the livingspace, the back became the fortress.

Final result

Votes

user	voted
Gadion
lolu
AdhirAnimator
migue1ito
hereisanoop
chandershekhar
erathion
PhilNit
ponti55
Missy
Feodora
CMYK46
Akassa
wlado
Score: 9.71

Comments

hereisanoop says:

amazing job

(5 years and 3449 days ago)

Pxleyes

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