Digital Watercolour Painting Tutorial for Summer Walk Part Two

Digital Watercolour Painting Tutorial for Summer Walk - Part Two

I'm not entirely sure I like the way this painting is going, but I shall carry on because the tips and techniques I'm showing you are the information you need. What you do with that information will probably be quite different from what I do. You will discover and learn the properties of these brushes as you 're using them. It will be daunting at first; they do such a variety of things and you can change the variables seemingly infinitely! I still don't have good control over the watercolour brushes, especially the runny wet ones. As you may have noticed, my style is fairly detailed and controlled (too neat and tidy sometimes), and that's why I don't tend to use those brushes or paint with such abandon! Not sure how all that kind of stuff looks printed out! It's definitely something I'm working on and experimenting with. I tend to use them inside a selection because they go further than I want them to, and reducing the size gives a very different effect.

Illustration No. 8 Summer Walk

Lots of rocking going on in this illustration
Used a dark grey Sharp Charcoal pencil to draw some cracks in the rock (I chose charcoal because it's open to more softening and blending methods than a fine digital or watercolour would be.)
I used a Wet Pepper Spray Airbrush; you have to chose Air brush - Pepper Spray- change dab type to Wet Airbrush, pick the Gradient as Colour Variability, and chose Stainless Steel Gradient (a greyish mixture, then I used a pale brownish gradient Eucalytus Bark, then I reduced the size of the brush and did the dark brown and green areas.
The above step was done inside the selection which was picked by using Lasso Tool, and Paint Inside selection on bottom left bar of document.) You can click on Lasso Tool to access How to Use the LassoTool Post.