: Help with identifying how this mobile game art was created I love this artwork and would like to understand how it was created: Some looks hand-drawn. For example the shading on the bottom

@Deb5748823

Sketching and Illustrator. The sun is made with gradient which is quite the easiest part here.

For example text looks like 3d but it's made with stroke and border line.

Example clouds were made once and for background they were copied and they just changed opacity so clouds look that they are also behind.

As someone said texture is applied to whole image.

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@Chiappetta793

For the moon craters I would use a radial gradient from transparent to black cut out a small section of it and stick it under the hole I wanted on a layer above it. I could grunge that a bit with a brush set to erode at a lowered opacity.

The same would apply for the bottom of the bird.
Cloud vectors and brushes are available for download all over the internet as are sun shaped ones.

The sun could be created in minutes only using the marquee rotate and fill tools in photoshop

A texture has been applied to the whole image.

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@Holmes874

Lots of illustrations start hand drawn. They're often then scanned in and traced (auto trace or by hand) into an illustration program such as Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape.

The textures then get added at the end, often in Adobe Photoshop.

Google 'photoshop and textures' and you'll find dozens of tutorials. Here's a silly one but explains the concept fairly succinctly:
www.sitepoint.com/clipping-mask-in-photoshop/

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