I will show you how to create an fierce car illustration. In this tutorial, you will using many different tricks and tips together to form an amazing composition.

This tutorial partially relies on brushes, I have provided all the links to each brush pack + a mega brush download pack for this tutorial. If you don’t have any brushes then I recomend you download it. The types of brushes you will need: Grunge, Abstract, & Floral. You can find all the brushes & more at QBrushes

Download Brush Megapack (782)

Some of the brushes I used:

http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/abstract-xi/
http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/photoshop-cs4-radial-brushes/
http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/party-brushes/
http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/sui-generis-v3/
http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/sui-generis-2/
http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/unreal-brushes/
http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/fractal-chaos/
http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/fractal-brushes/
http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-abstract-brushes/fractal-brush/

Step 1 – Background

Since we are using the blending mode color dodge 90% of the time to achieve cool effects we need a good gradient background so our colors stand out. Create a new document (make sure its not too big or the car wont fit properly), mine was 1304×516, create a gradient with colors Yellow -> Red -> Black (All dimmed though).

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