How to Create a Breathtakingly Artistic Winter Horse Illustration in Photoshop

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Step 1
In this step I will show how to create custom brush. For this I used scan of splashes made with ink.

Go to Channels panel and duplicate Red Channel. Right click on Red channel and chose Duplicate channel.



Load selection
Press Ctrl then click Red channel.
Invert selection
Select/Inverse (Shift+Ctrl+I). Before you come back to Layers panel don’t forget select RGB channel.


Try to use different ways for selection like Color range or even Magic Wand Tool.
Color range (example)

Now clean up parts which you don’t like. For this you can use Eraser tool (E) Also if you like change splash position.
Create brush.
I use 2500x2500px 300dpi canvas for my brushes. Go to Edit/Define Brush Preset.
Please see my brush settings.
Step 2


Add Horse photo.
Folder: Resources/Horse.psd


Add a black to white gradient map by going to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map.


Right click on your layer and choose “Convert to Smart Object”. Now we are ready to add some Shadow/Highlights (Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlights).
Settings:

Click on the “Add layer mask” icon on the bottom of your Layers palette.


Select the Brush tool (B) then paint with black # 000000 on your layer mask. Usually, I just use the first default brush. Brush opacity 50%.


Use this brush and paint on layer mask with white color.
Just move brush above the place you want to uncover and click once or twice.


Use this brush and paint on layer mask with white color.
Step 3

Add roots photo above Horse layer.


Right click on your layer and choose “Convert to Smart Object”. Now we are ready to add some Shadow/Highlights (Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlights).
Settings:


Use Oil paint filter. Filter/Oil paint.
Settings:


Apply a Roots photo layer to the Horse layer
To do this, press and hold Ctrl/Cmd and point your cursor above the red line. You will see an icon – click on it.

Change blending mode on the Roots layer to Soft Light

Above roots layer add new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N). Now go to Edit > Fill, set the contents to 50% Gray, then click OK.


Set the layers blending mode to Overlay and opacity to 100%. Now use Dodge Tool (soft brush) and paint on this layer. For the brush settings, I used an exposure of around 20-50%.

This is the layer set to Normal

By mistake I deleted layer with this Horse version, so my horse looks like this.
Layers structure at this stage.
Info: Cienie / Podświetlenie mean Shadow/Highlights
Step 4
In this step I will add more roots. It is really hard to repeat all painting steps, so I will show how I do this in the following example.Open IMG_5598 Folder: Resources/IMG_5598

Click on the “Add layer mask” icon on the bottom of your Layers palette.




Use the same brush, but this time paint with white #ffffff on the layer mask.


Use this brush, opacity 100%, and paint with white # ffffff on the layer mask.


Now when you know how to create this, I will start add roots to the image.
IMG_5598_ver.01,02,03,04



Settings:

IMG_5603


Settings:



Settings:

Use soft brush and paint with white # ffffff, it will give us some lights. Brush opacity 30-50%


Use soft brush and paint with white # ffffff. Brush opacity 30-50%


Above Horse folder add another light layer. (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N).
Use soft brush and paint with white # ffffff. Brush opacity 30-50%

Change layer opacity to 20%
Screen with selection of the light layer.

Layers structure at this stage.

The whole image at this stage.
Step 5


Use this brush. Brush size 70px.


Before you start painting turn off roots layers, we need only horse visible.
One more thing, we need to apply image, to do this add new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N) then go to Image/Apply image. Don’t change anything, just click OK.
Now we are ready to paint.

Paint in the arrows direction.

Quick steps.

Use Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) make the selection, then press Ctrl+J and cut out the head.


Mask view.

When you finish, change layer blending mode to Darken
Step 6

Above Gradient Map layer add new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N). Layer opacity 10%. Layer name splash.
Now use custom brushes and make the background dirty J
This layer set to opacity 100%.

Here are the settings:


Next, we’re going to add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness / Contrast).
Here are the settings:
Step 7


Now use Liquify (Filter/Liquify).
Brush settings.
Steps.
Now we are ready add some lines to the image.
Steps

Step 8


Settings:

Use huge soft brush and paint with black # 000000 on the layer mask. Brush opacity 50-70%

Layer set to Color Burn, Opacity 10%
Use this gradient.


Settings:


Above add new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N). Blending mode Color, opacity 50%
Use huge brush and paint with color #7c59e0.

Use huge soft brush and paint over Horse leg, color #faf4da.

Above add new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N). Blending mode Subtract.
Use huge soft brush and paint border with color #eae2d4. Brush opacity 10-20%

Above add Solid Color layer (Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color) Layer blending mode set to Darken, layer opacity 70%, color #f6ff68


Use huge soft brush and paint top of the image with color #291988. Brush opacity 50%.
If you paint to much use Eraser Tool (E).


Settings:


Layers structure.
Step 9

Use Pen Tool (P) and make shape like this. Shape color # ece8d7


Settings:
Should Look Like one below



Now merge LINES and DROPS and load selection (select layer then press Ctrl and click on the layer)

You can hide selection by clicking Ctrl + H

Step 10


Duplicate layer Ctrl + J
Now go to Filter/Oil paint
Settings:

I don’t want this effect on the background so add the layer mask and paint with black to show layer without effect.
Mask view.

Apply the image, add new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N) now go to Image/Apply image. Don’t change anything, just click OK.
Select this layer then go to the Channels panel, select Red channel then make selection Ctrl + A, and copy the channel Ctrl + C
Before you come back to the Layers panel don’t forget select RGB channel.

Now go to Layers panel and press Ctrl + V



Apply the image, add new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N) now go to Image/Apply image. Don’t change anything, just click OK.
Now sharp the image, go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen more.
Step 11

Because my PC is “dying” I will change picture resolution for this step.
Use Sharpen Tool


Paint with soft brush.
Some close-ups and Final View
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