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Key art: Painting the mountain

Key art: Painting the mountain

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Key art: Painting the mountain

- [Instructor] Excellent. Let's start working on our mountains right now. So to do that, let's zoom out a little bit, and move our key art over to the side. Now remember, we are going to be getting that optical illusion just because of the subtleties of our color. You can see here if I was just to place it over the top and then move it to the side, color's actually quite similar. But when you place it over a lighter portion of the sky, you can see that it starts to look slightly different. In fact, the blue will push the red, see, even further, and they'll look a little redder than they actually are over here as you can see. So in saying that, let's start working on our mountains. First thing that you want to do is isolate the background mountain, start working on them individually. Now, the best thing is to turn off your haze, which we can always bring back later. And let me show you some techniques of working with our mountain to our present will make it look nice. Now essentially…

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