For our final step, let's add in some additional details on our painting. And, for that, I'm using my small flathead brush. I'm going to go at the top of the mountains here, and I'm just going to add in some more red color, and the like. Kind of drag that down into the under color until it starts to blend, and then basically fades away, that's the first thing I'm going to do. The next thing I'm going to do is grab some straight black, no mixing, no mixing on this one, and go to the bottom here, the very bottom, start bringing in some black. Go back and grab some more. What am I doing here? What I'm doing is I'm adding in some craggy features on these mountains, yes it's early, but you can already see from the other mountain shapes, you know, you can start to see things. You're going to start to see some of these deeper shading, shadowing areas. So, let's bring these guys up, not towards the top, this is going to be focusing more on the bottom, the lower slopes of the mountains, to add in more of a craggy feature on our mountains. Well, the next thing I want to do is also add in just going back with my small brush, add in some yellow highlights here, some nice, largely horizontal lines going across here, just some little hints of some additional yellow light. Some of the most impressive sunset effects are the most subtle little lights, you're going to get where it's bouncing off the upper clouds, and these need not be just yellow. You can also have them with more of like your, couple of your pink highlights as well. So, you can see where these things are blending in here just like little brilliant flares, almost like stationary shooting stars, in the atmosphere. Though we're going to, the eye is going to really focus in on those, now don't overdo it, otherwise they'll become old hat and very common on your painting. The last additional effect I want to cover is optional because you will not see with every sunrise, but even on the most brilliant of sunrises, sometimes you can still see the stars twinkling overhead. What I've done is I've taken my tiny, tiny flat brush and just applied a smidge of white at the top, not a lot, just a little, just a little bit on there. What I'm going to do with this is go around, and very gently tap, and so on. Now the one thing, or two things to really keep in mind about here, first off, make sure that you don't have like nice, little straight lines through every single star. Stars don't work that way, they’re a lot more chaotic, some are brighter than others, some are very distant and faint. So, if you start seeing a very, almost like a grid pattern on your stars, you need to just, you need to think about it in a different way. You should also have more stars towards the top of the painting, where the sky is darkest, and the light is furthest from. What's more, if you think your stars are coming out too strongly, what you can do is, take another dry brush, on the sky. With a really dry brush, we go in here, and we just very, very lightly tap, tap a couple of times. What this will do is, it'll make the star, it'll give it a little glow, it'll make it less stark than some of these other ones. Make it look less like somebody just plopped them down real quick, which is of course, is what we did. Now, you have to make sure that your brush stays dry, so if you get some white pigment on there, wipe it off, and go back at it. It is after all, almost sunrise, and the stars will be pretty faded if they're still out at all. So, now you see, you still have your star effects here, but their much more faded, so why still adding to our painting, they don't overwhelm the brilliant light show going on down below. And, there you have your finished sunrise painting.
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