I like the hills

Damn DF, they look realistic! Good job

What snapped tho is the Above the Cliff's water. It doesn't look like water, more like ice. Make it a bit bluer, decrese the texture's opacity a bit, then bam. Idk if that helps tho

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Damn DF, they look realistic! Good job

What snapped tho is the Above the Cliff's water. It doesn't look like water, more like ice. Make it a bit bluer, decrese the texture's opacity a bit, then bam. Idk if that helps tho

Yeah that ! I guess I made the waves look awkward ! And reducing the Opacity of the Textures would defintly fix it, But There qre no textures :3
Thanks anyways :D

Stay away from the grass brush. Please.
Actually, stay away from many of the generic decorative brushes in photoshop (like the leaves and grass ones, mostly)
Getting too attached to it in your works causes a terribly repetitive texture in your painting. Use is sparingly, and with great care.
These are a great start, but I feel like they're very rigid. They lack an organic, natural feeling. I suggest studying natural structures such as rock faces and forests and so on. You will see that none of them are truly just a row of trees in the back ground or a lump of brown. It helps you understand shading and coloration, as well as how things are naturally placed. I love your use of texture, but too much just gives it this very uncomfortable way of settling with the eyes. Texture is great, just use sparingly, or learn how to generate different ones.
Found a few tutorials you might be interested in :o)

Solving the ass grass issue:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Grass-tutorial-81436446
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Painting-Grass-the-Lazy-Way-330837080
http://www.deviantart.com/art/How-to-speedpaint-green-chaos-114072568

Rocks:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Rocks-405287395
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Ciameth-s-Rock-Tutorial-244126897

water:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Tutorial-13-Like-a-fish-out-of-water-262733692
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Simple-water-painting-Tutorial-344309100
http://www.deviantart.com/art/water-tutorial-254567472

Hope this helped :D

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Stay away from the grass brush. Please.
Actually, stay away from many of the generic decorative brushes in photoshop (like the leaves and grass ones, mostly)
Getting too attached to it in your works causes a terribly repetitive texture in your painting. Use is sparingly, and with great care.
These are a great start, but I feel like they're very rigid. They lack an organic, natural feeling. I suggest studying natural structures such as rock faces and forests and so on. You will see that none of them are truly just a row of trees in the back ground or a lump of brown. It helps you understand shading and coloration, as well as how things are naturally placed. I love your use of texture, but too much just gives it this very uncomfortable way of settling with the eyes. Texture is great, just use sparingly, or learn how to generate different ones.
Found a few tutorials you might be interested in :o)

Solving the ass grass issue:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Grass-tutorial-81436446
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Painting-Grass-the-Lazy-Way-330837080
http://www.deviantart.com/art/How-to-speedpaint-green-chaos-114072568

Rocks:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Rocks-405287395
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Ciameth-s-Rock-Tutorial-244126897

water:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Tutorial-13-Like-a-fish-out-of-water-262733692
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Simple-water-painting-Tutorial-344309100
http://www.deviantart.com/art/water-tutorial-254567472

Hope this helped :D

Whoa !! Now that you mention it ! thank you very much !
the thing is when ever I try to make something original, I just ruin it ! like Grass ! see I don't have a tablet so make strokes for the grass is very hard with mouse ! that way I intend to use special brushes to make thing faster and look nice ! thanks anyways :D

There is a way to mimic pen pressure with a mouse in photoshop:
-go to your brush presets,
-go to shape dynamics
-look under the slider of "Size Jitter". Below it, there should be a drop down list labeled "control"
- change the setting to "Fade"
What this does is after a certain stroke length it becomes thinner, and comes to a tip, just like if you slowly lifted the pen off of your tablet.
**the numbers next to it are very important, the lower the number, the shorter distance it takes before it does this, Personally, I'd set it between 50-100 for grass! :D
I THINK these are alright for Newer versions of PS, I use CS2
Hope this helps!

This is beautiful.

Quote from Praetorain

This is beautiful.

Merci xD

These all share the same problem. They're all flat, dull and uninteresting, and your over abuse of texturing everything is an eye sore. The colours are very washed over and bland, and nothing stands out in any way in any of them. Do not use decorative Photoshop brushes in real artwork. They are fine for logo's and simple decoration, but they never work in realism. The worst one is the grass brush. As for all original, I don't think so. The bird silhouettes I don't think are your original doing, and as for The Hills, the clouds are obviously not real. Don't say it's all original unless it 100% is.
As for no reference pictures, that is not a good idea. To truly understand these environments, go outside and take some photographs to help you understand them.

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These all share the same problem. They're all flat, dull and uninteresting, and your over abuse of texturing everything is an eye sore. The colours are very washed over and bland, and nothing stands out in any way in any of them. Do not use decorative Photoshop brushes in real artwork. They are fine for logo's and simple decoration, but they never work in realism. The worst one is the grass brush. As for all original, I don't think so. The bird silhouettes I don't think are your original doing, and as for The Hills, the clouds are obviously not real. Don't say it's all original unless it 100% is.
As for no reference pictures, that is not a good idea. To truly understand these environments, go outside and take some photographs to help you understand them.

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anyways i see progress, and i exspecially like the grass one

Quote from Charry

These all share the same problem. They're all flat, dull and uninteresting, and your over abuse of texturing everything is an eye sore. The colours are very washed over and bland, and nothing stands out in any way in any of them. Do not use decorative Photoshop brushes in real artwork. They are fine for logo's and simple decoration, but they never work in realism. The worst one is the grass brush. As for all original, I don't think so. The bird silhouettes I don't think are your original doing, and as for The Hills, the clouds are obviously not real. Don't say it's all original unless it 100% is.
As for no reference pictures, that is not a good idea. To truly understand these environments, go outside and take some photographs to help you understand them.

All negative? I really don't think these are that horrible. If you've seen his previous, he's shown quiet a lot of progress.
And actually, Photoshop is the LAST thing you would want to use for a logo. Since you are working with (bitmap) rastered images, resizing anything leads to it becoming slightly pixelated and distorted. Usually for logos you use a vector program, such as Inkscape or Illustrator. Vectors are rooted in mathematical expressions, so no matter how much you resize, your quality will always be nice, crisp, and clean. Photoshop can be used for photomanipulation (either the rendering of a completely new scene or just retouching) and digital painting. I do think its important to limit your use of the more decorative brushes and attempt to use your own painting skills, but it never hurts to every once in a while to throw in a few grass brushes or bird brushes. :)

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All negative? I really don't think these are that horrible. If you've seen his previous, he's shown quiet a lot of progress.
And actually, Photoshop is the LAST thing you would want to use for a logo. Since you are working with (bitmap) rastered images, resizing anything leads to it becoming slightly pixelated and distorted. Usually for logos you use a vector program, such as Inkscape or Illustrator. Vectors are rooted in mathematical expressions, so no matter how much you resize, your quality will always be nice, crisp, and clean. Photoshop can be used for photomanipulation (either the rendering of a completely new scene or just retouching) and digital painting. I do think its important to limit your use of the more decorative brushes and attempt to use your own painting skills, but it never hurts to every once in a while to throw in a few grass brushes or bird brushes. :)

Well yeah !
what Charry said was true and kinda harsh xD
I admit I use a lot of brushes ! which makes my art look fake and no sense of creativity on it ! but yet I can't help it so far, If I don't use them I'll just not going to do anything cause Working with a mouse doesn't give you a presentable thing, I'll keep up with those Brushes for now until I get a tablet by then I'mm try to be creative more, and by the way ! I found out that all this big artists that Amaze me with their work were using lot of special brushes and Photo manupliting and it was kinda disappointing for me !
and thank you all for your Cncs :)

I really enjoy your Cliff one, it looks quite peaceful. I would love to just sit there alone with my thoughts looking out to the sea.