I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software and share with you the tutorial on creating beautiful reeds with photoshop.
Tutorial sharing:
1. Open ILLUSTRATOR and create a reed. Select the circular drawing tool to draw an ellipse. On the Gradient color panel, select linear (linear) fill. The fill color is yellow and Gradient. As shown in Figure 2:
2. Copy the ellipse drawn in the second part of the figure, slightly fine-tune the color, and reduce it. We call it image 2. In this way, we get two elliptical images with a slightly different color and size. Apply the Filter/Distort/Roughen (Size: 11; Detail: 100; Points: Smooth) Filter in Illustrator to Figure 1 to produce the uneven Reed hairs. As shown in the following figure:
3. Filter/Distort/Zig Zag (select Amount: 25; Ridges: 100; Points: Smooth) for image 2 to produce the neat rhythm of the Reed hair. As shown in the following figure:
4. Arrange by image 2 and Image 1, and use the blend tool in the toolbox to make a harmonious and hierarchical effect.
5. Copy the prepared Reed on the clipboard, open PHOTOSHOP, and create a new (CTRL + N) file. The background color is black and paste the Reed in. Press Ctrl + t to perform tensile deformation, and press ctrl + m to adjust the curve. Use the pen tool to draw the path of the pole, press Enter + Ctrl to make the path into a selection area, use the gradient tool to pull the gradient, the gradient color is set to a relatively dark Reed yellow texture series gradient. Then draw the reed leaves based on your needs.
6. Next we will plot a large landscape of Reed. Copy a single reed image and change the color brightness and size according to its position. The general rule is that the closer the distance is, the closer the distance is, the clearer the closer the distance is.
Select the shortest Reed. Image/adjustment/color (CTRL + U) slightly adjust the color to make it gray-blue. Its location tells us that its existence should not be very similar. So we use the blur filter to blur it. If we are not satisfied, we can use CTRL + F to repeat this operation to achieve satisfactory results.
In order to make the Reed appear not the same, use the free deformation (CTRL + T) Reed size, angle, etc., and then use CTRL + U to adjust their brightness. The final effect is shown in the following figure.
All right, the above information is all the content that I have shared with all the users of this software of Illustrator, which is detailed in the tutorial on creating beautiful reeds with photoshop, you can see the users here. I believe that the method of drawing is very clear, then everyone will follow the small series of tutorials to draw the beautiful reeds.
