I'm beginning to form my background now. I'm using less contrast colors and smaller brush tip.

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digitqal art piece

I'm adding some shadow highlight areas to my background structure. I'm using less contrasted (lighter in this case) colors.

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digitqal art piece



digitqal art piece

Well I think I'm done with my basic shape here, and it is time to change my brush.

So create a new layer.

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Choose a brush - I will shoes just more like basic brush, let's say #522 or #50.

But before beginning to set some additional character to my image I will change the color a little bit.

Create
 
a Hue / Saturation layer and change the Master Channel ( not the red 2 as it is on the image)

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Here you can see where my Adjustment layer is; and I've also changed Layers blending mode from Normal to Linear Burn and opacity from 100% to 81%.

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digitqal art piece

Here is the result - the image got a little bit darker and way more darker in shadow areas.

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digitqal art piece

Have a good look on it again. Imagine what you can do with these shapes - it doesn't has to be exactly as I do.

The reason why - is every person seas there something different, something unique. Don't hush just look there, Flip horizontally, and se you in part 2 of my tutorial.

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