![]() ![]() ![]() Also coming will be many more new textures, including more in the Unleashed Watercolor Collections, which I just began a short time ago, as well as many more rich painterly texture collections, too. So what's coming up in 2017? I plan to do many more blog posts here - many of which will feature the In The Digital Studio Videos I've been creating in the later part of this year. And there are many courses you can purchase to learn how to become a proficient painter in a specific medium if you decide to invest in becoming a traditional painter. ![]() There are tons of videos on Youtube, however, on how to learn to paint in various mediums. For me to teach you how to make a texture would, in essence, require me teaching you how to become a painter - something I find impossibly overwhelming to do right now due to my schedule. In those beginning videos, I cover much more basic information, such as how to utilize layers and use the masking tab in Topaz Photo FX Lab software.Īs for how to paint - I have over 40 years experience in painting in so many various methods. I suggest viewing the videos from the bottom going up, which will take you from the very first video on up through the current videos. I have tons of videos on my YouTube Channel on how I work with the finished textures in these methods. You can also read more about my creative process in my FAQ here on the website. :) All of my textures are paintings, designed to be used most often as backgrounds for your photo art, as well as overlays for your photos to create different effects. I often get asked the question "how do you make textures"? My first answer to that is very simple - do a painting. Basically, I just threw paint around and had fun. My goal was to keep everything loose, suggestive and messy, more so than accurate. Choosing brighter and more saturated colors, I added even more paint to the fox, and even went over into the background with some different and unique brush marks. Choosing colors from the original image, I then added more paint marks, most over the existing pencil lines from the original image, and some in various other areas. Using a black brush, I refined the outline of the fox and his important features very loosely. There, I added a layer on top to paint on. But since I just recently acquired an iPad and downloaded the Procreate art app, I decided to try it instead.Īfter importing the image onto my iPad, I opened it in Procreate. I could have easily taken him into Corel Painter at this point, to refine and add things. I saved the image and thought about which direction to go. I had the shape of the fox, in pencil, with some unique texture and coloring. Then I decided to add even more, so I grabbed texture #3 from the Explorations Collection, placed it on top, and set it to overlay layer mode at 100%. I placed this texture on top of the pencil layer, and set it to multiple layer mode, at 44%. With those orange tones, I thought it would work well for my fox. I decided he needed a little sprucing up with some more color and texture, so I chose Expressions #22 from the colorful Expressions Collection. I set the pencil drawing layer to hard light layer mode, and then masked away all of the pencil lines behind the fox - you can see my little black and white mask in the layers panel above. ![]() I then ran a Topaz Impression pencil preset on the photo layer, to turn my fox into a pencil drawing. I chose that particular texture because of the color tones - they somewhat matched the color tones of the fox. I made some adjustments to the photo layer before beginning, and I made a duplicate of that photo layer, placing it on top of the Expressions Natural texture #23. You can see how I positioned the fox on a vertical canvas on the bottom layer. ![]()
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