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Handmade Paint Textures for Designers & Illustrators

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Overview

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Looking for an authentic way to create textures using paint for your digital illustrations?

Join Jeremy in creating textures that you can apply to your illustrations and designs! I'll show you the process from making the textures using paper and taking into a digital format where we can use it in Illustrator and Photoshop. 

Key Takeaways:

  • Getting hands dirty with acrylic paint
  • The process from handmade to Illustrator/Photoshop
  • How to scan textures
  • Manipulating textures using adjustments
  • Using colour and bitmaps
  • How to frame an object with masks
  • Shortcuts and quick tips

You'll need acrylic paint, brushes, sponges or cloth materials, Adobe Illustrator (Free Trial) and Photoshop (Free Trial).

Syllabus

  • Class Trailer
  • What Materials to Use
  • Bristle Brush and Soft Sponge
  • Cloth Scraps
  • Using a Roller Object
  • Making Frames
  • Experimenting
  • Setting up Scanner
  • Making Textures
  • Applying Textures to Your Work
  • How to Use the Tiffs in Photoshop
  • Turn TIFF's into vectors with Image Tracing
  • Thanks for Watching + Next steps

Taught by

Jeremy Mura

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