This tutorial is a collaboration with Jolobai Andrei, an artist that I discovered recently through a friend. His love for Photoshop inspired me to work with him to produce a composition using new styles and techniques. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a colorful abstract vexel composition using the Pen Tool. Let’s get started!
Tutorial Assets
The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.
Step 1
Create a new document using the following dimensions 2500×1500 and also use 300dpi for the resolution. It is best to do this because in time you might want to print the composition and saving it at a high resolution is a must.
Step 2
It does not matter what color you fill your document as you will start adding colors straight away. Using the Pen Tool (P) set to create full shapes you will need to create a few shapes like in the image below. Define these shapes using the colors #ff9c00 for the top part, #00d2ff for the lower right side, #ad08f6 for the lower middle part and #e50000 for the lower left part.
Step 3
Add a soft orange gradient to the above part using the Blending Options setting. You can activate the Blending Options option by double clicking on the layer. When the Blending Options window opens access the Gradient Overlay option and Normal gradient using the colors as in the image below #ff1e00, #ffde00, #ffde00.
Step 4
Duplicate the top Orange layer than using the transform option by pressing Command/Ctrl + T resize the shape a little pulling the lower right corner inwards just a few inches. This is just to create start creating some depth to the shapes.
Step 5
Using Command/Ctrl + Click on the first orange layer you will make a selection of the layer. Than create 2 new layers and using a Black Soft Brush of different sizes start brushing on the edges of the selection and set the layers to Overlay 28% and 12%.
Step 6
Start creating 2 new white shapes using the Pen Tool (P) and place them over the duplicated orange layer. Set the 2 new layers to Overlay 50% and 25%.
