BEFORE MERMAY ENDS!! Just wanna say I made (fish)scale brushes because scales are a pain to draw by hand. The set also includes brushes for fins.
May not be much but I plan to have this revamped for Mermay 2019 and add more scale shape variations. :>!!
Just for being a $1 pledger, you can download it at my Patreon (post includes a mini gif tutorial) (Plus access to past posts since Feburary…..ʸᵒᵘ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵃ ˡᵒᵗ ᶠᵒʳ $¹ ʰᵒⁿᵉˢᵗˡʸ ʰᵏʲᵈᵃᵇʰᵛᵃᵈⁿᵏʲ.)
Hey guys! A lot of you are asking about my recent textures and how to do them. I’m normally a cardboard-photo-texture-set-to-overlay-on-a-layer-above-your-drawing kinda gal, but lately I’ve been messing around with new grittier stuff.
so here’s my hard pixel airbrush made in photoshop. It’s super fun.
Load the image in photoshop. Select the whole canvas and go to Edit> Define Brush Preset. Select this brush from your brush menu.
Now go to brush settings and use these settings:
I would just upload the brush file itself but I don’t know how to do that. I ain’t a wizard. I don’t know how all the world works! Whatever! Learn how to make brushes yourself!! It’s very useful!
This brush is best used in high resolution (always work in high res!) It looks like soft grit when zoomed out, but when you get up close, you can see all the hard pixels.
penelope staring towards the sky, contemplating existence
Woke up at 2am and couldn’t fall back asleep so I made a tutorial on the Photoshop techniques I use most frequently. Starting with the sketch:
adjustment layers: specifically the hue/saturation slider in this case, allows you to color correct quickly
lasso tool: for sharp edges!
alpha lock: useful for painting within a pre-defined area (especially useful when painting characters)
x (hotkey) : toggle between foreground + background colors- let’s you easily blend between 2 colors
ctrl/cmd click : quickly change current active layer. Especially useful if you’re burdened with too many layers (or just very disorganized)
clipping mask: similar to alpha lock, but can add details without changing/ painting directly on the previous layer. I often use them to test out + apply gradients.
layer styles: I didn’t use any in this image, but the possibilities for layer styles endless, from simply adding a quick outline (useful for die cut demarcations when making stickers!) to creating more seemingly complex appearances. Here’s a gif of Nick Carver using layer styles (a combo of drop shadows + inner shadows) to quickly make the illusion of snow but with simple strokes.
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