Making of 'Ancient Kingdom of India'

Dear friends, I am going to show you the steps to create stunning digital painting.So let's start..I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS4. The theme of my digital painting is 'Ancient Kingdom of India'. Somedays back I visited Lavasa,Pune and captured following image, I am going to use following image as my base image.

I searched many images on Google, and tried to find out old Indian forts, buildings, temples. To make the landscape interesting I found out many images of terrains/mountains, some of the images which I finalized are in below image.

Opened Photoshop. With the use of Clone stamp tool, started cloning the green forest from the images I searched on net. please check the image below.

Started adding the trees at left side of the image, and filled the left side mountains with full of forest.

Once Left side done, I started filling the right side mountains and finally my mountains are filled with deep green forest.

Now it's time to add some old Architecture. In Photoshop I used Clone Stamp & Lasso Tool to add Old temple at the left side mountains.

Once added I adjusted its color and then made multiple copies of it and then pasted all over the left side of the mountain.

After that, I adjusted the color of temples with our original base image so that there is perfect blending of multiple images. Then I added fort left side of the mountain.

By the same technique I added temples and fort at the right side of the image, and also added some trees again in the image to fill the gap of buildings and then my image started looking like below.

Then I started adding mountains in the image. Big landscape adds mood in the painting.

Used many mountains and filled the background of the image and then my painting started looking like below image

Now it's time to add life in the sky, hence started painting the sky with many colors, but prominently Blue, Red, Orange, black, white, Yellow. Remember Sky adds mood in our painting!

Now I added the waves in the river and replaced calm looking river, for that I did some painting, and used rocks from another image by same technique which I mentioned in my previous steps.

Last but not the least, to give the sunset effect done lot of Painting, adjusted the colors and shadows, added mist with white color in the mountains. To give dramatic effect, added Ship , added wooden ancient structure, and this is final look of my digital painting.

Thanks for reading, I hope you like my digital art. 

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