The Process.

For my second assignment, i've viewed alot of pictures from the website, and i've drawn myself some sketches as well. After considering, i decided to illustrate using one of my sketches.

For the 1st step, i pasted the picture in illustrator as the 1st layer and it was dimmed to only 30% so that i could clearly see the outline of this sketch. After that, i started to trace the image and draw the outline of the tree and the trunk using the pen tool. During that, the warp tool was used as well to alter the tree to a better shape.

After that, colours were added to the tree and also the greenland that i've just drawn using the same method. The greenland was drawn on another layer behind the tree so that it wouldn't overlap the image of that tree. The drawing of that greenland took me more time as i wanted to draw the grass on that layer one by one.

Once it was done, another layer was added to draw another piece of greenland right behind the tree, by using the same method as well, in this, different green colors were applied on the bushes to distinguish it from the greenland. This method was applied on the following layers as well to precisely show the real landscape of this illustration of mine.

Afterward, i started to go for the bushes and the small tree on the 10th layer. This layer took me alot of time as well dunno why. Maybe i wasted too much time in fixing that tree to a shape i wanted as the previous few outcomes weren't actually in my liking. Plus, the trunk, it took me some time too, as it was pretty hard to draw on such a tiny trunk. Oh ya, almost forgot to tell, i added colors after that. So, here you go.

Later on, another layer at the back of that "tree and bushes" layer was created to draw another piece of greenland which is also the last piece. Same method was applied once again but of course, with different kind of green color.

Okay, now, time for the sky. ^^
In this, another layer was created again, which was the last layer also. Then, a very light blue color was added, and then the gradient of that color was changed to Linear type with 270 as the degree in the small box on right hand side. On this layer, a small tree from the symbol column was applied too to create a "jungle-ish" environment.

So, until now, the basic view can be seen already, so it was time to beautify the illustration already. For the tree at the front, pencil tool was applied to draw some curves to represent leaves. Warp tool was used as well to make those curves to a better shape. Then, grass and flowers from the symbol column were applied too around the tree to sort of beautifying the tree abit. ^^
Shadow of both trees were created too, by using pencil tool. Then, black color was filled into the shadow i drew and the outline was disabled. Then to make it looks more real, i reduce the color capacity to 30 odd percentage only. As i said, i want this illustration to be more "jungle-ish", therefore, after awhile, i decided to add more trees on the last layer. hehe...

After that, the symbol from my previous assignment was pasted on that 1st layer, and the scale was reduced to make it looks smaller. Then it was placed on the right bottom of that illustration. Here, that's how my 2nd assignment was done. ^^