[Equid Phantasm]

For Marwari

This was quick because I was getting tired. I didn't bother doing the whole page.

Long story short start with your grasses in the shape you want them surrounding the water.

Make layer 1 the white background (You can delete it later if you want), layer 2 the sky, layer 3 the grasses through how ever many layers you want of grass or whatever else you need in your bg.

Back to the water layer. I used burn around the edges of the grass and then burned inward on the grass layers and then put the grasses over the top of the burned area.

On the water I used burn again on size 1 to burn little bits and pieces of darker coloration in the water using mostly horizontal strokes and some wavy lines to represent a little bit of surface disturbannce. I used smudge on size 3 horizontally over the entire water back and forth motion.

I then used another water layer and created with spray paint the reflection of the cloud and some highlights which I then also smudged a little until I liked them.

To do this more detailed I would have gone back and put in more shoreline gravel or pebbles or sand, and smudged or colored down into the shoreline and also have some areas where the grass and ground have sloughed off into the water. My sun is again on the right side. Make sure you put reflections... I just hinted at green in the water rather than doing a full detailed reflection You can get a good reflection by taking the layer of grass, copying it, then moving it to the left just a little bit and then taking the blur tool (bottom left, looks like a droplet of water) and blurring the second layer just a tiny bit. It makes it look like a reflection. If you want you can take size 1 smudge and go back and forth horizontally within that layer to reperesent the broken lines a reflection does. I didn't do that either in this quick art.

For the cloud I just did it on the sky layer but usually I do another layer for clouds. I spray painted it in size 7 or 8, then took a second color and did shadows and then changed to size 2 spraypaint in white and did continuous white circles round and round to get the highlights of the cloud. If it were sunset I would have put spray paint in the same colors as the sunset highlighting one side of the clouds. Usually, not always but usually clouds get smaller as they get further away and less bright.

I hope this helps you and anyone else who wants to look at it. Again, this was quick because I was tired. If you have any questions, just ask. Again, this is probably only my second or third water I've done.

Equid

[.wild.fire.]

o.o that is so beautiful