This tutorial we will learn how to represent a tree with rich leafage.

Open a new file: File - New (ctrl+n)



Choose then the Brush Tool of a small size and determine the future tree's contours.



Create next a new layer: Layer - New - Layer and little by little, outline the tree's rind, applying the Brush Tool. Paint it firstly with the basic color.



Change now the brush's adjustments and picture out its texture.



Mark now clearly the rind's light and its shadow.



Using the Burn Tool, mark out the most intensive shadows.



Apply next the Smudge Tool and blur out all the traits, keeping the same texture of the "stripy" rind.



Create then a new layer above this one and get back to the Brush Tool, painting with it the leafage.



Choose now another brush's type and paint the leafage in different directions, using several different colors.