@daring-celt 4 September 2021 edited more from that month

Digital art_2021. Mountain Unicorns Hi friends! It's my another digital story about fantasy world and its inmates.

I started the sketch in **Paint Tool SAI 2** as always. This program has awesome color mixing brushes! I like it!

In first step I selected base colors of background

Then I finded a color shades for Unicorn, an environment and direct of light to them (from Moon)

Drawing an environment with texture brushes (rock imitation)

Then I mark the location of the little unicorns around the moon. In my idea, they just frolic in the air, rejoicing that they can fly

To draw a realistic ripple of the water I open my art in **Photoshop** and modificated one simple round brush with that option: Warp the shape in the tab **Brush Tip Shape**

and such settings in the tab **Scattering**

It looks like a smooth surface of water, doesn't it?

Used a suitable textured brush to form a nest (used two layers, higher and lower than the layer with Big Unicorn). Drew a shadows and highlights on his.

With texture brush (as a crossed branches) I drew a highlights on a nest

Then I started to work with the Moon and a little unicornes. For drawing the Moon I used some texture brushes. An Unicorns, in my idea, should be translucent, besides, they are far away, so I didn't detail them, but only accentuated their shape with separate bright highlights

Then I wanted to make a more atmospheric environment, and I added night clouds to the background, and I placed the darkest cloud behind the Unicorn to make it stand out more. I also drew a glow behind the Moon and a shadow from the nest on the Unicorn..

Now the most exciting stage is working on the creation of the Unicorn. I used hair brush to draw a mane Horn and tail I drew with simple round brush changing pressure and opacity.

Then I wanted to bring more magic to the drawing (*yes, this is my favorite digital technique - glow*). I maked it for little Unichorns (*copied a layer, blured with **Gaussian blur** and changed blend mode to **Linear Dodge (Add)***). I do the same with the Big Unicorn's mane, but changed blend mode to **Exclusion**.

And finally, I drew a stars in the darkest corner of the sky. Yes, this is also my favorite trick in drawing fantasy scenes.

Finally color correction with adjustment layer **Color Lookup** And my art is ready!

You can purchase my art in full size in [my gallery] on **Makers Place** https://makersplace.com/gernessa/mountain-unichorns-1-of-2-74963/ Thanks for your attention! And have a nice and creative day! ;) Regards. Gera