After choosing the concept composition and drawing it out big you need to think of the colors that you will use. These colors may depend on the preset color scheme that was chosen for you at random. Or you can be inspired by fantasy world where everything is the wrong color or they can be realistic or portray a certain mood or environment choose one main color, which will fill most of the space like brownish orange using different shades and values of this color. You can fill the whole page and make it more give it a bit a bit more volume so that you see what's actually happening in the in the piece roughly filling the page so that you have an idea of what is happening and where the light is coming from and where the shades After having blocked colors down you can also put down the accent colors.

So in my case is the reddish color the very bright color of the sunset, you should never go overboard with these colors because if there are too many of them and too much too many colors are used, the eye gets lost and the piece looks out of sync. It also starts to color with money at some point and not as appealing as if you had one main color and then accents of school like different breads in it. You can use more than more than two colors. Obviously there's like different combinations for that but let's just stick to two don't get discouraged by how the piece may look now because you have only started the process of putting the colors down. If you want to experiment try using different brushes and different textures. You can download brushes for free or buy them if you want a specific Specific brushes over specific artists, they're extremely easy to find online and you can also create the brushes yourself too.

So very easy to do. So next, let's talk shortcuts. It is now the moment where you would want to work on the piece continuously without having to look and move your pen out of the place that you're drawing on. And for example, to find a specific color, I will give you a few shortcuts for some of the main aspects when using the brush tool. So if you are on the Mac, holding CTRL ALT and moving the mouse from left to right will alter the brush size holding the same keys and moving the tool up and down will alter the brushes age hardness. And in some cases, if the brushes bought it will just alter the opacity of the brush holding CTRL ALT command will give you the color square for some reason.

I don't know why. It's a square where you can Pick new colors and in truth I find it a little difficult to use, but it is helpful to know and it does help sometimes to quickly sample the color code the old key if you want to change the color of the layer way, make it make it darker, lighter, more or less saturated press Command u and this will give you a box with sliders where you can play around and figure out what best suits your drawing Command T will transform will free transform the part of the object so you can enlarge enlarge it or make it smaller. Unfortunately, this shortcut doesn't allow you to doesn't allow you more than the basics. So if you want to alter it further, you need to go to Edit and then look for transform and it will have different versions of the transfer of like what you can do with a transform.

Then there is the standard shortcuts which is a common set for undo comment. For safe B for brush tool, and that's actually quite important because sometimes you miss a key and press usually x or Zed and it will give you the wrong tool. So if you just press B it will return you back to the brush these shortcuts I find them extremely useful and extremely easy and quickly to use especially when you're working continuously on something. So it will take some time to get used to these shortcuts but they are definitely the ones that I use the most and the ones that make my drawing life so much easier. You