WIP: DIDY Banner

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Figured I'd share the wip of the banner for on here. It's a bit

cleaned up since I used my brushes and I erased outside

the line art.

I don't have the original sketch I did the line art over to show

but oh well, I did that in Paint Tool Sai since my lines in

photoshop are absolute garbage. After doing the line art in

Sai I opened it in photoshop and set the blending mode to

multiply then opened new layers underneath. Using my

watercolor brushes I layered some color under

the lines then erased the stray color outside the lines.

Next I inverted the background and made a new layer under

the coloring. Using a soft edged brush I added some

desaturated blue and used the smudge tool to blend it in to

the background at a gradient.

Finally in a layer over everything else I pasted the texture

and set the blend mode to multiply then added one final

layer and using the same soft edged brush as the blue in

the background, brushed some shadow around the edges.

OH and the text. I didn't feel the need to add this to the wip

but it's just 3 layers of Trajan Pro set under the texture layer

with a shape (rectangle with the edges erased to points)

in between DIYD and the Graphic Design part. That's it.