@daring-celt 15 October 2021 more from that month

Pink Peones (Drawing and color correction in ArtRage) Hi friends! Do you know some digital drawing programs have an option of color correction? You can create the simplest special effects with their. This is very convenient (*no need to open Photoshop every time, ha-ha!*) At example, this is how I drew this magnificent bush of peonies!

I start a drawing with create a file from menu **File - New Painting** To click on red marked button opening a window for choosing a canvas

For canvas I chose very simple preset **Sandy Paper**

and some changed option of texture size (*this window opening to click on canvas preview*)

Then I set an option to **Pensil** for sketch

Drawing a sketch (I chose my own photo as a reference) https://i.imgur.com/75Lx1ib.jpg

Then I chose suitable color palette and started drawing. I decided I'll worked with **Oil Brush**

(preset **Everlasting Oil**)

Default setting

Start drawing a flowers

Detalized a local petals with **Palette knife** (default)

For the leaves, I choose several shades of green - warmer tones for the lighted side and cooler tones for the shadow.

Here is such a beautiful peony bush I got!

To create the background, I take the most suitable tool - **Airbrush**

Created new layer (under layer with flowers), chose preset with big size of stroke

And drew a silhouettes of back leaves

So... Now let's get down to special effects! Open menu **Edit - Filters - Blur**

Chose a value **26,5** pxl A picture got a visual volume

And now I create beautiful tinting of picture. I created a new upper layer, then chose **Fill tool**

Open **Option** palette (**in left side of main window**)

Chose middle tab

Pressing a two-color stripe open a gradient editor. To create new preset choosing first color (pressing a selection point)

First color

Second color

I got this gradient

Then I drew a diagonal line from upper right corner Note: blending mode of gradient I set **Luminescence**

View with applying gradient Like an engraving, but it's not that thing I wanted now.

I changed blending mode of gradient layer to **Soft Light**

And got very unusual image.

Then I reduce a opacity to **60%** So, it's that I need! Some leaves I drew in yellow shade like a highlights on them.

And finally, to enliven the picture a little I drew on new layer with **Airbrush** a rays of sunlight

Then I blurred this layer (**36,7** pxl) And doing the same as gradient layer (blend mode **Soft Light**).

Now it's what I was need!

I'll very glad if you will find my tutorial interesting and useful for yourself. Have a positive day and be healthy! Regards Gera