In this step you will create
some beautiful red oak leaves with
some very curvy and nice shapes.
You can make all sorts of leaf shapes if you want.
You don't have to stick with the oak leaf shape.
So let us start creating the first leaf for that,
you will want to firstly create a new layer
for these leaves and then pick from the color palette,
the beautiful burgundy color from the middle of it.
Then you will want to pick from the brushes,
the elegant Armand brush.
Let's increase the flow to maximum and
decreased a little bit of the size of the brush.
Now let's go to the middle and
draw a simple vertical line.
It doesn't need to be perfectly straight.
Then leaving from near the bottom of the line,
you'll want to move to the left side and
create some beautiful curves going up,
making them larger as they reach the tape,
then you can descend and close
the shape with some small leaflets on the bottom.
Now that the shape is closed,
let's grab the color from the corner and fill the shape.
After this, you will want to
create some highlights on this leaf.
For that, you will pick from the color palette,
the beautiful orange from the bottom left side,
and then picking up
the textured kiwi brushed, round brushes.
You will firstly make a selection of
the leaf using the selection tool.
And then you can apply some of
these beautiful orange on the left side of the leaf.
Let's increase the flow and decrease the size to
have a stronger contrast of light on this leaf.
Now let's create some veins for this leaf.
For that you will pick from the brushes, the brush.
Now, still having the leaf selected,
you will draw beautiful line on the middle of the leaf.
And now you can create
on the sides of the middle line some
little ones that go towards each leaflet of the edge.
Nothing too complicated, but much more decorative.
And with that, you've finished the first leaf
of the illustration in no time,
you will have many more of them.
So unless firstly, make a selection of the leaf,
dragging the pen to the right
until all the selection is made.
Now you will press the Copy and Paste
button from the bottom middle of the panel.
After this, with the move tool selected,
you will drag the new leaf on
the side so it can be feasible.
Now once more you can make
another selection of the new leaf,
dragging the pan to the right.
This timeless drag the next leaf on the left side.
These duplications are very easy to do.
Now that the three leaves are duplicated,
you'll use the Move tool to
make them different from each other.
So starting with the lift from the right side,
Let's set the warp tool and then you can play
with the shape of the leaf as much as you want,
dragging from the corners until
it's a bit different from the others.
Now let's see in which position it could stay.
And now you can pick from the panel the uniform
Option and drag it to the top-left side of the canvas.
Let's tilt it a bit more towards
the center and drag it from the edge.
Now you will move to the next beautiful leaf.
So you will select the next leaf from the layers
and then you can drag it so it can be visible.
Now as before, let's use
the warp tool to change the shape of it,
dragging the lower part
inside as well as the one from the top.
Now let's try to make it look wider.
So you will make the base of it
narrower and the sides why
they're after you are satisfied with the modifications,
you can set the uniform and then
pressing the little green bottom, Let's flip it.
And now let's drag it to the bottom right corner.
So it can seem like it's coming
outside the little pouch from the ground.
Now let us go to the last leaf from
the layers and now set on uniform.
Let's flip it horizontally.
And then let's once more use
the warp tool to play with the shape,
making it much more wider than before,
dragging the sides of the leaf outside the shape.
After the leaf is shaped,
you can grab it with uniform and
rotate it upside down with the little green button.
And then you can drag it to the lower-left corner.
And let's maybe make it a bit
smaller and drag it a bit more to the right.
Now that the three leaves are done,
you will want to go to the layers and
merge down the layers of the three leaves,
starting with the one from the top.
And now that all the three leaves are on the same layer,
you will want to duplicate
this new layer that contains all the leaves.
Now having one of the layers selected,
you will want to use the move tool to rotate it.
Let's rotate this layer until they
seem to fit a bit more of this blank space.
Now let's drag these leaves and find them and
cozy place to stay a bit more to the right.
And now let's make them a bit smaller
than the others and less recenter them.
As you can see, they create
a very nice sense of diversity through form.
Let's change them even more.
So you will go to Adjustments,
Hue Saturation and Brightness.
And you will lower the saturation
and bring down the brightness
as well to make these leaves look much more interesting.
Now let's make them a bit more towards colder nuance.
And now the first set of leaves is finished.
Look at how nice they look together,
how beautifully the red leaves
integrate into the background.
Now let's move to the next step and create
some more of these beautiful oak leaves.