Grouping our layers
What we have so far may not feel like a masterpiece, and that's okay! This is a very early stage (one of many "ugly stages" of a painting), mainly used to throw down some ideas and see whether they read well to the eye. For client work, you can expect to do a lot of thumbnailing like this, so it's pretty good practice to work quickly and be organized.
We're going to start grouping our layers, bringing in some more rendering, and performing some deliberate brushwork. Once we get going on this portion, I hope you see the importance of the early steps, as they act as the foundation for the rest of our piece!
Let's set up some layer groups so we can work freely on our background, midground, and foreground, while giving us some flexibility in the type and number of layers we can create for each plane of our landscape:
- In the Layers panel, make sure the Background Plane layer is selected.
- With the Background Plane layer...
