water drops tutorial photoshop

This is an introduction of a really simple way drawing water drops.

Water Drops in Ten Minutes JaneMere © 2010 This is an introduction of a really simple way drawing water drops. Let's start from the background in the left. 1. Decide the light source. 2. Create a new layer, draw some water-drop-like shapes on this new layer. 3. Double-click this same layer, modify the "drop shadow" setting "layer style". Drop shadow can be used to "trace the lines", and is better than "stroke" Recommended setting ● Set Distance to 0 px will make it like tracing ● Set Size to 0 px will have thin and beautiful lines ● Different Contour can also be used. You can try them out individually. drop shadow Layer Style stroke Distance Spread Size Contour Before After 4. Lock the transparent pixels in the water drop layer, and use gray to cover all the areas with pixels. ● Lock transparent pixels Normal Effect Drop shadow 5. Draw the light colors according to the light source. The light color is affected by background. 6. Lighten the darker part by drawing using lighter colors. 7. Draw the highlight. 8. Change the color on the edge a little bit by using soft-edge airbrush. 9. Create another new layer, set the mode to "overlay", and adjust the color of the water drops. Before After The actual colors used on the overlayed layer It's like this after color adjustment Advantages using overlay to adjust color ● can adjust color really easilly and conveniently ● virtually any color can be used, and multiple colors can be changed on a same layer. 10. Draw some other water drops using the same method above. 11. Adjust the color of the whole painting, Finished. Thanks for reading :) . Water Drops in Ten Minutes JaneMere © 2010 This is an introduction of a really simple way drawing water drops. Let's start. affected by background. 6. Lighten the darker part by drawing using lighter colors. 7. Draw the highlight. 8. Change the color on the edge a little bit by