To create the background, use a soft brush +-100px and draw onto your canvas the colours you would like then just smudge them in...
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With pen tool, create some mountains... then again with a soft brush, paint into them..create a second layer and paint into it a darker colour to give the illusion of depth...
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The second set of mountains...created with soft brush..
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Lightly sketch my frogalicious froggie...using a soft brush.
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Start to fill her in by creating a circle, filling it and transforming it.
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Using the pen tool, create each section of the body and stroke path.
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Do this for all parts.
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Begin to fill the parts with a solid colour.
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Stroke the eye and on another layer, draw some eye lashes.
Set brush properties to FADE to create this effect.
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Duplicate eye and add green to it, then add some highlights using the hard brush and soft brush- smudge it in...
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Add some more highlight to the side of the iris, then duplicate.
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Create eyebrows ...
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Make the lips ....again with pen tool...
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Add colour and white highlights and smudge...
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Make the gloves (which if you look at some frogs have orange ends) so I turned them into gloves for the froglicious effect ;)
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Both arms/hands done..added highlights and shadows...
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Do the feet with the same way...
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Add the cigar to the image.
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Create the lit part with soft brush and smudge.
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Add smoke with soft brush-painting "white" and smudging again...
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Add shadow..position it...
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Add highlights, select areas and dodge/burn tool...and with pen tool-white, simply just add some lines of highlight here and there and set layer to overlay.
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Ad some trees (created with pen tool-duplicated and faded)
and ground, simple circles and again fade.
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Add some hair to this diva ...
pen tool- fill selection with colour and add highlights-again- dodge/burn tool ;)