Make an Isometric Cutaway Flyer with Glowing Mushrooms

1. Create a 1200 × 1600 px document with a white background.
2. Rename Layer 1 to Night Sky.
3. Pick the Gradient tool and open Advanced…. Set three stops: #15112A, #2A1E47 at 55%, and #3D2659.
4. Drag from the top of the canvas to the bottom.

Next, add the glow behind the island:

1. Add a layer named Aura and switch the gradient Type to Radial.
2. Use one colour, #9B5FC0, at 70% opacity fading to 0%.
3. Drag from (600, 860) down to (600, 1500).
4. Set the layer's Blend to Screen and its opacity to 55%.

Click New Group and name it Island. Every block layer goes inside it.

1. Soil Left: lasso the left face and fill it with #B8683F (Edit → Fill). Then lasso two wavy bands down to the bottom edge: fill subsoil #8E4A33 from about 140 px below the top edge, and bedrock #5C3A45 from about 282 px below it.
2. Soil Right: do the same on the right face with the darker #83452D, #633224 and #422A36. Start each wave where the left one ends, so the bands wrap around the corner.
3. Grass Top: lasso the diamond and fill #3E8749. Add four lighter #4A955A stripes, 48 px wide, running parallel to the right edge.
4. Turf Edge: lasso a scalloped band about 17 px deep under both top edges. Fill it #2D6A3A on the left and #235530 on the right.

A recess in the left face shows three inner surfaces: the back wall, the floor, and the side wall nearest the left corner. The ceiling faces down, so you never see it.

1. Add a Cave layer above Soil Left. Lasso the opening at (272, 756), (548, 894), (548, 1074), (272, 936) and fill it #3A1E1B for the back wall.
2. Lasso the sliver along the left edge that slants up to the right and fill it #57302A for the side wall. Fill the strip along the bottom #86492F for the floor.
3. On a Shelves layer, lasso two planks parallel to the opening's top edge. Fill each plank's top #C9925E and its front edge #7E5030.
4. Back on Cave, fill two 6 px posts in #4A2A1A at x 346 and x 530. The planks cover them where they cross.

Depth in isometric pushes things up and to the right. A back wall 34 units deep shows up 68 px higher than the opening, so only its lower part is visible.

1. On a Shelf Crop layer, draw eight small button mushrooms along the upper shelf. Lasso each stem as a tapered quad in #D8C09A, then each cap as a half-dome in #F4E4C4.
2. Marquee the row from (330, 785) to (552, 942). Press Cmd+C, wait a moment, then press Cmd+V. The paste lands in place on a new layer.
3. With the Move tool, press Shift+Down four times and Down six times. That's 46 px, exactly one shelf lower.
4. Choose Layer → Merge Down.

Glowcaps.

1. On a Glowcaps layer, draw six mushrooms 16–36 px tall standing on the floor. Use #D9FFF1 stems, #7FF3C9 caps and a thin #3FB894 gill band under each cap.
2. Give the layer an Outer Glow in #3FF0B8: Size 26, Spread 10, Opacity 80.

Lamps.

1. On a Lamps layer, hang two lamps from the opening's top edge at x 360 and x 500. Each is a 2 px cord, a dark shade and a #FFD27A bulb.
2. Add an Outer Glow in #FFB547 with Size 34 and Spread 30.

Cave light.

1. Add a Lamplight layer and lasso the cave opening. Drag a Radial gradient of #FFB04A at 55% fading to 0% across it, then set the layer to Screen. The selection keeps the light inside the cave.
2. On a Cave Glow layer, lasso a cone under each lamp. Fill it with a linear #FFC46B gradient that fades downward.
3. Put a flat ellipse under each glowcap and fill it with a radial #5FF0C8 gradient.
4. Set the layer to Screen at 75%.

1. On a Pebbles layer, scatter small elliptical marquee fills a shade lighter than each band. Keep them out of the cave.
2. On a Mycelium layer, set the Brush to Size 2 and Hardness 90 in #B6FFE6. Drag branching, wandering strokes down from the right face's top edge. Start some right under where the fly agarics will stand, so the threads read as their roots. Carry a few deep into the bedrock, and wrap one around the front corner under the cave.
3. Add an Outer Glow in #3FF0B8 at Size 12, Opacity 70.
4. Where strokes knot together, thin them out with the Eraser at Size 16.
5. Set the layer's opacity to 45%, so the threads glow without turning into cracked glass.

Text on the right face has to follow that face's plane. The baseline climbs 1 px per 2 px, but the letter stems stay vertical. That's a vertical shear, not a rotation.

1. In an empty patch of sky, type DEEP CELLAR FARMS · EST. 1926 in Bebas Neue at 30 px, then click Rasterize Layer.
2. Marquee around it, switch to the Move tool, and click Skew in the options bar.
3. Drag the right-edge handle straight up by a quarter of the text's width (about 75 px for this line). Press Cmd+D.
4. Name the layer Farm Sign and move it so its bottom-left corner sits at (642, 1065) on the right face.
5. Add a Color Overlay of #F2C48A and a hard Drop Shadow in #2A1410: Offset 2 / 2, Blur 0, Opacity 80. This gives a carved look.
6. Drag Farm Sign above Mycelium. Then lasso a band about 26 px above and below the lettering and delete it on Mycelium, so no threads cross the words.

1. Shade Left: add this layer just above Soil Left, so it darkens the soil but not the cave. Lasso the left face and drag a linear gradient from #24123A at 0% to 70%, top to bottom. Set it to Multiply at 80%.
2. Shade Right: add this layer above Pebbles. Do the same on the right face, but from 25% to 80%, so the shaded side stays darker all the way down. Set it to Multiply at 75%.
3. On each soil layer, run Filter → Add Noise… with Amount 10, Mono and Gaussian for grain.
4. Lasso each bedrock band and run Brightness/Contrast… at Brightness +14, so the bottom of the block doesn't sink into the sky.
5. Brush a 3 px #8FD6A0 line along the two front top edges on a Moon Rim layer at 80%. Hold Shift and click to draw straight lines. Add a 2 px #5FF0C8 line along the bottom edges on a Base Rim layer at 40%.

Make the grass layer active and click New Group for a Topside group.

Cabin layer:

1. Fill the long wall that faces left in #EBD9B4 and the gable end in #BFA27C. Light comes from the upper left.
2. Brush 2 px #CDB28A siding lines parallel to the wall's bottom edge.
3. Fill the door #6B3B2A with a #FFB547 inner panel, and fill the window #FFD27A.
4. Fill the front roof slope #7A3F6A, with a #4A2742 fascia along the gable. The back slope faces away, so you never draw it.

Trees layer:

1. Each tree is a dark ellipse shadow on the grass to its right, then a #5A3A2A trunk.
2. Build the canopy from three circles: #1F5247, then #2F7560 offset up and left, then a small #6FC49A highlight.
3. The trees stand behind the cabin, so drag Trees below Cabin in the Layers panel.

1. Door Glow. Lasso a trapezoid running out from the door toward the left edge. Fill it with a fading #FFC060 gradient, run Gaussian Blur at 9, and set the layer to Screen.
2. Garden. Lay seven stepping stones as 26 × 13 ellipses. Run them straight out of the door, down and to the left, which is the direction the door faces. Put a dark offset copy under each stone, then add a light highlight.
3. Agarics. Draw three fly agarics: #EFE3CB stems, #D63C2F domed caps, #E8D2AE gills and #FFF6E4 spots. Give each a dark cast shadow.
4. Lean the small agaric. Marquee the smallest one, switch to Move, and drag its rotate handle about −12°. Press Cmd+D.
5. Lantern. Draw a lantern post at the left. Marquee just the lamp head, cut it with Cmd+X, and paste it with Cmd+V, which puts it back in place on its own layer. Give only that layer an amber Outer Glow, so the post stays crisp.

1. Cmd-click the top ruler near the middle to drop a guide at exactly half the width.
2. Click the left ruler at y 100 and y 357 to mark the title band.
3. Type MUSHROOM in Titan One at 162 px and UNDERGROUND at 125 px, both in #FFF1D6. Those sizes make both lines exactly 974 px wide.
4. Move them so they're centred on the guide, with ink tops at y 100 and y 256.

First, make a flat red copy of both lines:

1. Select each text line and click Duplicate Layer.
2. Click the copy's row before doing anything else (#804). Otherwise, the next nudge moves the original too.
3. Rasterize each copy and move it back by −10 / −10, onto its source line.
4. Drag both copies under the text, then Merge Down into one layer named Title Depth.

Then build the depth by doubling:

1. Duplicate Title Depth, click the copy's row, and move it by (+2, +1). That's the isometric direction.
2. Merge it down.
3. Repeat with (+4, +2), (+8, +4) and (+6, +3).

Four merges give a solid extrusion 20 px across and 10 px down.

Finish it:

1. Add a Color Overlay of #A3291F and click Rasterize Layer Style to bake it in.
2. Add a Stroke (Width 4, #1C1030) and a soft Drop Shadow (8 / 12, Blur 18, 65%).

Panel.

1. Press Cmd+' to show the grid and set Grid size to 8 px. Snap turns on with it.
2. Drag a marquee from about (114, 1323) to (1086, 1517). It snaps to exactly (112, 1320) – (1088, 1520).
3. Run Select → Shrink by 14, then Select → Grow by 14 to round the corners.
4. Fill it #140C28 on a Footer Panel layer at 78%, and add a 2 px #7FF3C9 Stroke.

Lines. Centre each line on x 600, leaving 23 px above the first line and below the last:

1. FUNGI FARM OPEN HOUSE in Bebas Neue 60 px, mint, letter spacing 6, ink top at y 1343.
2. SATURDAY · NOVEMBER 14 · 4–9 PM in Bebas Neue 40 px, cream, letter spacing 3, ink top at y 1402.
3. grow-cave tours · spore tasting · lantern walk in Courier Prime 22 px, cream, ink top at y 1448.
4. 127 CELLAR LANE · FREE ENTRY · ALL AGES in Courier Prime Bold 22 px, mint, letter spacing 2, ink top at y 1483.

Set the letter spacing in the Text panel while each line is still the active layer.

1. Stars. On a Stars layer, click single 2–4 px #FFF1D6 brush dabs around the sky. Add a small cream Outer Glow.
2. Spores. On a Spores layer at the top of Topside, dab 3–12 px dots, mostly #9BFFDA with a few #FFE9B8. Cluster them above the agarics and around the block. Give them an Outer Glow in #3FF0B8 at Size 22, Spread 18, Opacity 90.
3. Spores painted over the cabin or grass look like noise on the drawing. Lasso the island's silhouette on Spores and press Delete.
4. Shadow. Under the Island group, fill a 560 × 30 ellipse centred on (600, 1280) with #0B0618. Run Gaussian Blur at 14 and set it to 55%. The block now floats above the panel with some breathing room.

Export with File → Quick Export PNG, and save the project with File → Save Project so you can come back to any layer.