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Tree and Sky – your design adventure

In this tutorial we will make a logo – a style for some imaginary company and try to represent the company through this style.
So let’s make any king of document and remember when you work with print in Photoshop the document has to have CMYK colors and 300 DPI.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

I’m going to create a dual brush – I really take my time to set the settings and the brush itself first, depending what I want.
So here are my 2 Brush tips: the hard round will be the initial brush and the hairy one will be the 2nd (dual).

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

And here is my already dual brush.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

And here is my brush action depending on the pen pressure.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

And let’s begin – I’ll begin with pure black as my base.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Note that I will be flipping the image through the process. So watch carefully.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Adding the color:

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

And another:

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Flip: no I think I no what I will do with this thing). It’s going to be a tree.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Overlay a little bit:

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Flip: add some saturated reds:

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Now let’s take care of the grass. Add some yellows.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

I’ve decided to erase some part of the illustration that is almost finished.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

I’ve decided to apply a cutout effect to the image. Even if you lose the details I think it will do better for the logo means.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Now the text so here is my font. Don’t remember the name properly but you can pick the font you think will stay better there.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

I’ve erased some areas with round rough brush and set the text to go on the curve – you create a curve first and then type on it with the same font.

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

And a little bit of dots there and we are ready here. We’ve created a major element of our graphic design now we can use on letter, greeting card and any type of corporate stuff.
And this is it:

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

Tree and Sky - your design adventure

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