Continue Photoshop Tutorial: How To Draw a Beautiful Chinese Peony(1), this article is part two.
As we all know, Chinese peony is a very beautiful kind of flower, and it is very popular among the old and the young, for they always buy them to give others as a gift and a bless. But today, we will not to buy it at all. We will try to draw one for our dear. We will continue to focus on the mouse portrait and use other auxiliary skills to make the technique perfect.
Make the black-and-white color Chinese peony(the impression drawing is below)
1. Create a white color canvas with 700*530 size, 96 resolution ratio. Open the paths panel and add another three paths, together four. Name them respectively: petal 1, petal 2, leaves, branch. Then draw the following paths with the pen tool. The 4 shapes as follows is only for your reference.
2. Click the petal 1 path and back to layer palette to create a new layer with the name petal 1. Convert it to the electoral district with the keys CTRL + ENTER, padding light grey color(#C8C8C8), and the make some highlight effect and shadow part with dodge tool and burn tool. Then copy chop mode as follows.
3. Create a new layer with the name flower heart. Spot the flower heart with hard brush of 5 pixels. Then execute the bevel and emboss effect: the size is 3 pixels, the angle of the shade is 128, the height is 16, with toothed contour line and 40 opaqueness.
4. Create a new layer of petal 2 and apply the same way as petal 1 to copy the chop mode. Then adjust the size and angle of the petals to make the flower more completed. Then merge all the layers.
5. Copy the layer above, reduce the size and move it on the upper right.
6. Convert the leaves layer to the electoral district and apply the radial gradients effect.
7. Delete the electoral district with the keys CTRL + D. Load the leaves path and elect the edge of the leaf and delete with tools. Here is the effect.
8. Build a branch layers like the former layers and pad black color. Execute the note paper effect: the image balance is 25, the particle size is 16 and the highlight is 10.
9. Enhance the contrast and make some stereo effect with dodge tool and burn tool. Then adjust the color gradation of the leaves to make highlight and shadow effect.
10. You can download the brush with butterfly pattern to add some decorative figure on the picture. We make it! Is it beautiful?
