A Work in Progress: Autumn in Watercolor



This guide was made for entry:
Autumn in Watercolor
In Contest:
duck house


Original image


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Cracked mud source for background textures.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 1

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Weather vane (my own photo) source photo

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 2

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A new canvas is partially sprayed using airbrush tool in brown, then house is loosely lassoed and set over background.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 3

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More color is added to background, and house is scaled to a taller shape using edit/scale tool.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 4

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Cracked mud layer is added over house. This layer will be partially erased with a really rough eraser tool set around 10 %. This layer will be repeated several times, flipping the layer to change where cracks fall.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 5

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Here several layers of cracks have been partially erased, allowing sprayed colors to show.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 6

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More color is added in background and textured using eraser tool. House will also be textured with the eraser tool.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 7

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With hard brush tool, birds and railing on the house are added.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 8

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Horse and vane are chopped and added to top of house.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 9

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Fence in front of house is added. One post is drawn with hard brush tool, then duplicated using grid to place the posts the same distance apart.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 10

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To complete, the fence at bottom corners is slightly erased using the rough eraser tool.

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Step 11

Final result

Creation of Autumn in Watercolor : Final Result

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