This tutorial will show how we can create a sketchy wallpaper for Christmas this year! We shall cover watercoloring, pencil sketching and some simple lighting effects. It will be good if you are working with a pen and tablet.

 

Stock used

• Female model: http://angelcurioso.deviantart.com/art/dark-elegance-3-71561155
• Crow: http://stockmichelle.deviantart.com/art/Black-Crow-in-flight-101574139

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to easily create a successful piece of cityscape concept art. We’ll be using a very basic 3D scene as a foundation for the piece, then taking it into Photoshop for some creative photo manipulation of reference photos, basic painting and adjustments. Let’s create this urban scene!

Resources Used In This Tutorial

• Drink Bottle
• Stream of Water
• Water Splash
• Sprinter
• FanExtra Brush Set: Bubbles
• FanExtra Brush Set: Raylight
• Sparkler
• Sparkler 2
• Sparkler 3
• Water Droplets Brush Set

Final Image

Here is a preview of the image that we are going to be creating:

Step 1

Create a new document (800X800px and 300px/inch resolution).
Create a new document called ‘background’ and fill your entire canvas with black:

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