@daring-celt 1 February 2022 edited

Digital art_2020. Singing Forest Hi friends! First picture I wanted to draw was a continuation of my drawing series about **Singing Forest** and their magic animals. Last time I met you with **Blue Owls**, do you remember? Now I decided to draw a **Singing Forest** itself. What do you think it might look like? Something like this... https://read.cash/@daring-celt/digital-art-2020-blue-owls-in-the-singing-forest-200296d0

I saw a story of that drawing in the sky. One day I looked out the window and saw how a clouds had formed strangely. I immediately made a sketch of this kind, so as not to forget. I started my drawing in **Paint Tool SAI 2**, but sometime I used **Photoshop** when I needed a unusual form of brushes...

Made a strokes of base colors Above there will be flashes like the northern lights. I thought it would look magical In first step I used my main working brush **Oil Brist 2**

Chose a dark color gradient for background as deep space with this options

Aurora Borealis is shining! One of my lover Photoshop brushes I created myself.

I set this options for it

I created two layers, lower of them was bluring to make a soft glow

This is magic reflection from trees

A сolorful trees of **Singing Forest**. I drew their leaves in an unusual spiral shape, with intertwined branches.

In this step I drew a cloudy environment around of trees. These are also various bizarre forms. I used two kind of my brushes - some like a cloud with soft wet edges

and a basic round with scattering options.

Details. Spiral tops of trees (with **Ink Pen**)

The I decided to resize my picture to make the composition more expressive.

and made a glow for trees (blurred copy of layer and set blending mode to **Screen**)

The I wanted a forest has more saturation color and replace a copy blurred layer above the original. And change blend mode to **Linear Dodge (Add)**

I don't know what a star buildings they are - may be a Chrystal Castles from a space ice growing on the asteroids. But it must be beautiful too!

And final element - a music from Universal falling to leaves of forest. How can draw a music? I think, as a delicate chains of stars... And the space of the universe with stars and planets in the background (on new separate layer)

Reduce to value of opacity to **40%** for universal's layer Duplicate layer of star buildings and music chains, blurred them and change blending more to **Lighten** for creation magic glow

This is how it is, **the Singing Forest**, growing somewhere in unknown outer space, able to hear and reproduce the music of the stellar spheres...

I hope you'll like a story of creation this picture. Have a nice and creative day! With Love...