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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Thanks for posting.
For shading do you mean general fur shading, or highlights/lowlights? For the shadows I create a new layer, then paint the shadows in. Then I used a layer mask over the shadow layer, and used a gradient (so that it goes from dark shadows closer to their body, to a lighter shadow further away.) I think i used the gradient which has half opaque colour, then half transparent. Once the shadow is done I set the original shadow layer's opacity to something lower(depending what looks good) I think I used about 50 %.
For shadows on the wolves I used a similar approach, putting a layer mask directly onto the wolf layer(the fur layer i suppose). The mask will keep the shading on the wolf, rather than going outside of the edges. I painted the lowlights with a dark blue/purple, then set the layer properties to 'multiply'. Then set the layer opacity to something low, about 30 - 40 %
For highlights on the wolves I created a second layer mask on top of the fur layer. Here I painted a pale orange/yellow(almost white). I then set the layer to 'lighten', then turned the opacity down to a very low amount, about 10 % I think. I also painted straight on the fur layer a very thin white highlight just on the edge to bring it out a bit further.
I'm not sure what you mean about the background? I roughed in all the colour and general shape with small round hard brushes. Then I blended it all to make it look smooth, with the smudge tool. After than I painted in details with a small round brush, differing in paler hues closer to the sun, and darker hues on the shadowed side. I used a 'sunflare' brush for the light coming from the sun, and a small speckled brush for the sparkly highlights on the sunny parts of the snow. I generally use new layers for all the new elements. Like I'll have a background tree layer, foreground tree layer, snow layer, sky layer, wolves on top, shadows and highlights on top of them, falling snow on the very top. I also play around with layer properties and opacities a lot to give a nice atmosphere/effect. I used a few gradients for behind the trees as well.
Hope that was helpful, feel free to ask any more questions or explanations!