@daring-celt 24 December 2021

Digital art_2021. Christmas Window (part 2) Hi again my friends! So, I continue to draw a Christmas window started here https://read.cash/@daring-celt/digital-art-2021-christmas-window-part-1-a9e4c5ff Today I show how I how I decorated the window with beads, light bulbs and such figures of nutcrackers

Well... let's go! To paint the bows, I use my regular **Oil Brist 2** brush. I can to draw beautiful transparency strokes with it

For the bottom bow, I select a motley brush form from **SAI** library, something like this

Very colorful!

To draw a garland of lights, I had to turn on the guides again, but this time in the form of ellipses.

Resize (with **ALT**) and move (with **CTRL**) to need place and draw a base of garland with hard brush (for example, **Ink Pen**)

With the same hard brush I draw a light bulbs (*both elements of garland are on two different layers*).

Then I duplicate both layers and go to menu **Layers - Revers Layer Horizontal**

Already two parts of the window are decorated!

The fragment on the middle window is very small, so I paint it freehand with the same hard brush

In the same way, I draw glowing garlands around the perimeter of the window. Here and there I add red beads (also on a new layer)

Then I wanted to make highlights for individual beads. I duplicated the layer and put it in **Burn** blend mode. And erased a part of dark color to create a highlights from a light bulbs It won't be noticeable in the big picture, but I wanted to do this

So, the window is decorated. Now I need to create realistic reflections in the windows. First, I place all three copies of the glass and a separate folder and move it above the glass folder. Then on the left window I draw simple landscape - a fragment of a building, a lamppost and a few trees

To make it easier to paint on the filled area, I lock the transparent pixels of the layer with this button

Right reflections

It is difficult to understand what is there in the house. I filled a middle ares with dark orange color and painted a large faux fir tree, decorated with a glowing garland, candles on the window and interior blinds (with the same brush that I used to paint the texture of the wall)

In order for the crosshairs of the frames to appear and the reflections to become realistic, I change for the entire folder to **Soft light** blend mode.

Yes, blue reflections look great!

But the fragment with a part of the interior had to be moved out of the folder and separately set the blending mode **Lighten color** for this layer

Wow! The candles on a window have turned blue! But it's even more interesting!))))

Here and there I erase unnecessary highlights on the crosshairs of the frames and add a layer effect to the orange fragment.

On a new layer (*in the folder with decoration*) I paint in bright yellow the glow from the individual bulbs on the frames and the reflections from them on the windows.

Then I duplicate this layer and blurred it with **Gaussian blur** (*in Filter menu*) and change blend mode to **Linear Light**

Now I create another layer (below the fit garland) and draw symbolic figures of nutcrackers on it.

Already looks joyful and festive!

But I want to add more Christmas atmosphere to my drawing! I merge all layers and make color correction with **Filters - Hue/Saturation**

Yes, I add a drop shadows from the window sill and from the wreaths

And so, I create new layers, set to it blend mode **Shine** and with golden yellow color and with soft brush I apply bright spots of light where there are many bulbs

And finally, I wanted to add warm colors to the picture. I created a new layer, filled it with bright pink and put it in **Soft Light** blend mode. Great! I did it!

It was first of my Christmas drawings series. I hope you'll like it! Regards and with Love! Merry Christmas!