Today we are going to perform an illustration that will teach you some of environment and structure building techniques. This illustration can be done with a mere mouse, so let's get started.



We've created a new document and a layer.

Now, overlay the layer with basic black to white gradient. As you've notice I like to this. It gives me basic light direction and highlight\shadow balance.



Choose a brush to paint with.



I will pick a large diameter # 216 or 218.

Don't. forget to create a layer before painting something.



As my brush has some king o form and even little texture I'll ust make several strokes.











Here we have it. As you can see it already has some highlighted and shadow areas.

I will flip my image and do some more painting.



I‘ve basically made no changes comparing to previous stage.

Now I want you to create a new layer.



Select another brush. I will use any flat brush. I will rotate this brush a lot to match the edges of my image.