đLearn how to create and paint stylized foliage in this class.
đDiscover techniques for adding fill layers, adjusting opacity, drawing grids, painting leaves, adding details, shading, and creating dynamic grass patterns.
đExplore different colors and layer modes to enhance your stylized foliage artwork.
- Workflow
In today's class, weâll be working on a single plane to create some foliage for in-game use.
Weâll be working on the UV itself on the left side of the split viewport, click on F1 to use this workspace.
Make a new fill layer with only the opacity channel turned on.
To activate the opacity go into Texture Set Settings and click on the plus button, from there find the opacity and click it.
Now all of your layers will have the opacity channel in them.
Make a new Fill Layer on top and choose a green color, after you pick out a color add a black mask to the layer.
Make straight lines across the plane by holding down Shift then clicking and dragging with your mouse to create the line.
After you create the cross lines you can change the color if you want and lower down the layer opacity.
Make a new fill layer with only color and opacity on, choose the same green color as before, and add in a black mask.
On the UV side, weâll start to draw out a bundle of leaves.
Create some interesting shapes for the leaves.
Make a new paint layer on top and add a black mask to it.
From the black mask on the fill layer, right-click it and copy the mask.
Once youâve copied it, right-click the black mask on the paint layer and paste the previously copied mask onto this one.
Now when we paint on the layer we can see that we can only paint inside the leaves.
Choose a blue color and at it on the bottom of the leaves, smudge out the color using the smudge tool with the Artistic Heavy Spunge brush type.
Choose a brighter green and at it on the tips of the leaves.
We want our warm tones to be on top since that is where the light would most likely be present while the bottom parts are with colder tones.
Weâre gonna make a new paint layer and just like before we will add a black mask to the paint layer and paste the mask onto the black mask.
On this layer choose a dark green and add in the lines on the leaves.
If the color is too dark you can always lower down the layer opacity.
On a new paint layer, weâll add some light details.
Of course, before we start coloring we need to add a black mask and paste the leaf mask onto it.
With a very light and saturated green start adding in color where the top of the dark lines are then smooth them out with the smudge tool.
This is how the end result should look like.
Grab all the layers youâve made and group them up together inside a folder.
On the bottom part of our plane, we will draw some grass.
Make a new fill layer outside of the group where the leaves are and choose a green color.
Donât forget to only have the color and opacity channel turned on.
Once you made your fill layer add in a black mask.
Everything else works in the same principle as we did with the leaves.
Once you made your grass make a new paint layer on top, add a black mask to that paint layer, copy the black mask from the grass fill layer, and paste it into the paint layer black mask.
Choose a blue color and paint the bottom of the grass then smudge it out.
On the same paint layer just choose a saturated green, paint the tips of the grass, and blur the color out.
After you are done with the grass, grab all of the layers for the grass and group them up in their own folder.
Make a new fill layer outside of the folders you have so far, pick a pink color, make sure you only have the color and opacity channel on, and add a black mask.
Choose a brush then click on the Alpha in the Properties options below the layers and choose a flower alpha.
Add in the flowers on the other corner of the plane in whichever order you want.
After you add them in make a new paint layer, add a black mask, and paste in the mask from the fill layer.
Choose a purple color and only color in the center of the flowers, use the smudge tool to blur out the color.
On the tips, chose a lighter pink and at the end add a more saturated pink color on the tips as well.
Inside the circles of the flowers you can make it a different color, in this case, we used the same light pink for the tips.
When youâre done with the flowers, select all the layers and group them together.
The end result should look like this.
The final result looks like this
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