5

Make two more hills and place them, in a new layer, on your landscape as shown. You can of course EXPERIMENT with placement. Make sure that your 'hills layer' is below the 'furrow layer' so that the bottom edge of the hills is hidden by the top edge of the furrows. Also make sure the left hand end of the hill nearest you is hanging over the left hand edge. That part of the hill is a bit unconvincing and we'll trim it off.

To trim the end of the hill use the Freehand and Brush Tool (while holding down the Ctrl and Alt keys to draw a vertical line along the left hand edge. Make sure the line overlaps top and bottom of the hill that's over the edge. Then Shift-select the hill and press Ctrl 4 and then delete the overlapping piece of hill. If your landscape has ragged edges you can group (Ctrl g) the whole landscape and delete a thin slice, BUT remember if you group you lose your layers!

Now you can draw your house. Even though it will end up small it's worth taking a little time to do some shading as I have shown. You can of course draw your own version of this house. This one is a bit like some of the rural houses in the dry hills inland around where I live in New Zealand.

Place the house on your landscape and reduce it to an appropriate size. Add some smoke by using the Freehand & Brush Tool . Make it's colour light grey. You can change the line shape to one that is pointed at both ends and use a transparency to fade off the right hand end. Bending the smoke at right angles like that gives a sense of the house crouching under the hills for shelter. At 45 degrees south we are right in the middle of the Roaring Forties.

And that's it!

On the next page I'll show you a variation.