I continued finishing up some details, adding dirt to some meaningful areas to make the hotrod more believable. Although this is not a photorealistic artwork, it still had to be credible. I saturated the sky and the ground a bit; the selections of the main elements helped me on this one a lot as it is much easier to select the area to paint on instead of drawing over all the details and erasing from non-desired areas. This last process was the most time consuming (Fig.14).
Fig.14
I detailing the ground area next, adding vegetation, garbage, grass, depth between objects, adding rocks, and other stuff (Fig.15).
Fig.15
As mentioned earlier, I was playing a bit with the depth of field, adding a layer on top of the objects and painting using the selections that I saved earlier. Using the selections I was lighting up objects a bit that go to the back of the image, and taking down the contrast a bit, too. This can be observed in real life when objects go into the distance and lose their colours, contrast and detail. It gets harder and harder to see them clearly. Here is a demo of how you can achieve this very easily (Fig.16). In the second image I added a bit of blur to the back; in the third one I de-saturated the back a little; as the last step I painted with a very low opacity brush, using the Soft Light painting mode over the back objects, lighting up those areas.
Fig.16
I hope this has been an interesting making of article for you to read. I will leave you with the final image (Fig.17). Thanks for reading!
