garuf your drawings are actually quite remarkable no joke, its good how did you draw stuff just using paint ?
wow, thanks, yeah I only use ms paint I have photoshop but don't know how to use it paints more than enough for anything i ever want to draw.
A GARETH CALLEAR GUIDE TO MS PAINT
the most important thing to do with paint it to work in layers, firstly I draw the tank once I'm happy with that I add substrate flat initial then I alter it so it's either sloped back of mounded so on, colour is the next step pick a colour or edit a colour you want to use and flood fill the substrate.
once you've done this pick a entirely different colour (I normally use pink it stands out more) and fill the tank sides it will look strange but that's important.
go back onto the pencil/pen tool and roughly not worrying about having multiple lines sketch out your hardscape, for me it was the boulders now select the rubber tool (yes rubber, don't worry you'll love this trick) and right click the colour of your substrate using the pipette tool and then select the colour you want to have your boulders and simply hold down the right key and rub them out! This will make them entirely the colour you want. repeat again with the unrelated colour of the tank and mark out those boulders but leave the black lines intact.
MAGIC!
Now you will have a very roughly coloured in layout, fill all the areas within the tank the same colour as the boulders.
go back onto your colour bar and select a colour for your substrate and fill in the substrate and TADA. the boulders are one colour and the substrate is no longer the same colour as the boulders. Now fill the back of your tank white and then using the rubber tool again in the same way as before add highlights by right clicking using the pipette tool on the boulders colour and then selecting a lighter colour of it add highlights where ever light will hit the rock or if the shape is rounder as a random top half shading (see my last hard scape).
now were getting there, if you want to add plants and have a background nows the time to fill it in, fill it in and now we can get to drawing plants, firstly plants need only be suggestions so simply select the pencil tool and draw in what you think looks nice then go over them using the brush tool, change the colour of the green a few times and do the same again to suggest diffrent species, finaly using the spray can tool and a dark green or greeny brown colour give it all a once over this will suggest stem plants variations in light and plant and also makes it look a bit less flat.
And there you have it how I use paint to draw my hardscapes.
