150 CHAPTER 4 (Post office web site) DRAWING For pine needles,
150 CHAPTER 4 DRAWING For pine needles, use the Pencil tool and the smallest brush available, since you ll want to make thin lines. (Remember, the Paintbrush doesn t work well on the smallest brush. Making your drawing quite a bit larger would work around this and would give smoother lines than the Pencil tool.) For leaves, you might want a slightly larger brush (Figure 4-29). Experiment and see what looks right for your tree. Figure 4-29. Different types of leaves Continue putting in leaves, using short strokes, until your tree looks fairly well filled-in (Figure 4-30). Add more branches (switching to the branches layer, of course) if you need to. Real trees have a range of leaf colors. You may want to add some slightly darker leaves, and some slightly lighter ones. Use separate layers for each color, in case the blend of colors doesn t work out and you need to change it (Figure 4-31). The tree looks pretty good now. But that solid brown trunk doesn t look right. It needs a shadow!
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