Today we are going to illustrate an illustration using only Adobe Photoshop.

Let's go. Create a document.

designing an illustration

Create a layer and overlay the layer with gradient.

designing an illustration



designing an illustration

Here we have our yellow gradient.

designing an illustration

Create a copy of this layer and apply gradient overlay in layer styles.

   
designing an illustration



designing an illustration

Here is the result. Looks like a belly.

designing an illustration

More detailed view. As you can see it even has some solid texture.

designing an illustration

Now I will add second layer style: color overlay.

designing an illustration



designing an illustration