The Making of Amsterdam Mist: The Vehicles

Learn how to create hyperrealistic cars, boats, and bicycles, like the ones featured in Bert Monroy's painting Amsterdam Mist, with Photoshop CC.

Follow along in the development of Bert Monroy's latest artwork, Amsterdam Mist! This course, the final volume in the series, focuses on the vehicles, boats, and many, many bicycles in this incredible painting, which was created over twenty-two painstaking months with Photoshop CC. Bert shows how to create cars with decorative hubcaps, transparent windshields, and realistic license plates; decommissioned boats, draped in tarps; and three different bicycle models, which he ended up using over four dozen times in the finished painting.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Cars

• Creating hubcaps: Part one
• Creating hubcaps: Part two
• Creating hubcaps: Part three
• Creating hubcaps: Part four
• Making reflections in the windows: Part one
• Making reflections in the windows: Part two
• Creating headlights: Part one
• Creating headlights: Part two
• Creating a straight grill
• Creating a honeycomb grill
• Making chrome on a grill
• Assembling the interior of the cars
• Adding effects in car windows
• Creating a license plate: Part one
• Creating a license plate: Part two
• Creating a license plate: Part three
• Creating a license plate: Part four

2. Boats

• Building the parts for a motor
• Creating the rubber mat
• Creating the interior of the boat
• Creating and shading the tarp
• Making a rope pattern

3. Bicycles

• Creating a bicycle: Making the tread
• Creating the basic shapes for bike tires
• Adding texture to a tire
• Making spokes in a tire
• Finishing the basic shape for a tire: Giving it dimension
• Assembling the basic shapes for a bike
• Creating the frame of a bike
• Giving the frame a distressed look
• Adding a handlebar attachment to a bike frame
• Assembling the chain of a bike
• Assembling the gear of a bike
• Creating the reflectors on the bikes: Part one
• Creating the reflectors on the bikes: Part two
• Creating the seats on the bikes
• Creating springs on a bike
• Reviewing the variety of bikes in the painting
• Creating a distressed decal

Conclusion

• Goodbye

Bonus Movie

• Every object has a story