In this last step,
you will want to place
the little boy on top of the leaf bed.
For that you will play a little bit more with
the layers of the foliage and with their position.
The first thing you will do is to go to layers and
make all the layers of the beautiful leaves visible.
After you have rebuild all the layers,
you will want to fill the empty spaces
from the size of the canvas.
For that, you will want to go to the layers
and duplicate the last layer of the leaves,
the one with many beautiful colors.
Now you will use the move tool to flip the layer
horizontally and then making the canvas smaller,
you will want to tell the layer until you find
the position in which
the leaves cover more of the background.
It seems like this position is perfect.
Let's go to the layers and drag
this layer below all the others.
Place it just above the textured background.
After this width, the layer selected,
you will go to Adjustments,
Hue, Saturation and Brightness.
And now you will want to read the brightness of
the layer to about 40% and the saturation to
about the same as you can see now
the illustration looks much more complete and decorative.
Let's move a step further and
duplicate the last layer you've graded.
It seems like there is
no more space left for another layer.
So let's go and merge
down some of the leaves from the top.
Let's merge these two layers of
the dark red leaves and the green leaves.
And now you can go back to
the last layer and duplicate it.
After the new layer is created and selected,
you will use the move tool to
reposition the new layer in other place.
It can cover more of the background.
You will flip it horizontally.
And now let's still
dispositions or the layer won't since symmetrical.
It looks like this position is
covering a good amount of the background.
Now you can use the warp tool
to play with the edges of the layer and drag
them outside to get rid of
those straight lines left from the edge of the canvas.
And with this, all the leaves
are placed and the boy looks
very happy surrounded by so many colorful leaves.
For the end, you will want to create
a very important detail that
will make the boys stand out from the leaves.
For that you will go to the layers and merge
down the last two layers to make some space.
Now you can move to the top and delete the drawing
of the child because it is not needed anymore.
Now below the layer of the boy,
you will create one more layer.
On this layer, you will create
some beautiful textures with the brush.
Let's grab it and lower the flow of
the brush and increase the size.
Now you will pick from the color palette,
the beautiful dark green from the top-left side.
Now with this green,
you will create a delicate shadow underneath the child.
Let's increase the flow of the brush and
continue going around and
outside the edge of the boy's body to
create the beautiful shadow underneath him.
Look at how much better the boy looks now,
just a little bit more of
this dark shadow and the
illustration, It's almost finished.
This shadow since a bit too dark,
so you can grab the brown from the bottom of
the palette and apply it over the dark green.
Use circular motions to keep the shadow nice and uniform.
Just a little bit of this brown over the dark green.
Now atlas, you will go
back to the first layer of the textures.
And then using the same beautiful brown,
increasing the size and the flow of it,
you will want to make the background a bit more
dark as its colors stands out a bit too strong.
Let's diminish the luminosity of the corners and focus
on making the spots from
between the leaves much more darker.
If you want at the end you can use a little bit of
the dark green as well to give
a colder ten to the shadows.
This will make the red color of the leaf
stand out much more beautifully.
With this, the illustration is finished.
Congratulations on creating your illustration
and thank you for taking the course.
If you enjoyed it,
make sure you share your artwork and leave a review.
Thank you once more for your interest in
art and see you in the next course.