How to Use Texture Brushes in Adobe Photoshop - Digital Painting Tutorial

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Hi guys!
Today I want to show you a little bit more about texture,

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and how I use the texture brushes that I have.
Basically, I want to show you simple rendering

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with texture brushes, and how I approach it.

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Because it is a different way I guess to approach it,
and I want to show you my technique,

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because I feel like it's the easiest way to actually learn it.

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So basically here, I just have two circles.
And first, on the first circle,

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I want to show you what will be the most
simple way to actually make a sphere out of this.

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So the easiest way to do this would be to actually use a soft round brush like this.

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And basically I would paint the whole circle in black,

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and then use some gray, and just use the
brush to actually make the rendering of it,

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and make it look like it's a sphere.
And just with the same brush like this,

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I would be able to make it look like a
sphere. And then if I wanted to have a

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hard edged brush to just add a little
spot where it looka a little bit more

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sparkly like this, I would be able to do it.
When it comes to texture brushes,

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it's the same kind of thinking:
you need to have a soft brush, and a hard edge brush.

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So what I did here is I prepared for you
a selection of the texture brushes that I like to use.

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The first one is a hard edged brush, and the last three are a little bit more soft.

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Basically, you can use any of those
brushes and I'll just give you a demonstration here.

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And the way it works is I would
probably paint just a simple rendering

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like this, and just be really fast on it,
and just use the hard edge brush like this.

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And then I would use a
softer brush but something with texture,

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so this one has texture in it.
And just start to render the edges of it.

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And it's going to give
me a result as fair, but it's not

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perfectly round like this one here.
And so I'm going to render the edges like this

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Now this is going to take more time,
a little bit more sampling tools, and as you can see.

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I'm picking colors and values actually
here and there, to just start rendering it.

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And slowly, what I'm doing is I'm painting over all
the edges that I just created.

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But at the same time, I'm making it more
round. And now at this point, it's up to

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you to decide when it's rendered enough
for you. In my case I could actually say that

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this is rendered enough.

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It's not perfectly round, and if I wanted
to add a little spot, I could actually

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take a hard edge brush, and then just add a
little spot of shininess here.

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So that's how i use the hard edge brushes
and the soft brushes with texture.

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So that's really an easy exercise. And if
you want, you can download this PSD below

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this video, and take the brushes and
install them as well. But i'm not going to stop here.

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I'm actually going to show you how I
would approach the whole thing on a portrait.

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So here I have a simple outline of this
guy. And I'll give you the link so you

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can actually go download this
picture if you want to try this.

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And basically what I need to start here
besides this outline is a marquee all around it.

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And here I have it already.

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You can create it with either the lasso tool (the polygon one works well), or you can take the pen tool.

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As long as you have a marquee, it's going
to help you.

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And what I'll do first create a new
layer under the lines. And I'll first

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fill it up with some grey.

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In this case, I'll take something a
little bit more pale, and then what I'll

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use is the texture brush which looks a
little bit more like a soft edge brush.

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And I'll start my basic rendering so
it's going to start by just adding, you know,

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a little bit more of the rendering,
but with some texture at the beginning.

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And so at this point, I'm going very loose.

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I'm not worried about any details,

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I'm just painting with my texture brush
over the places that I said is darker.

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So I can see that under the nose here, a
bit here, and all those places and

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for that kind of start, you want to start
from actually far away a little bit.

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Just to be able to see all the different values everywhere.
And I won't do the clothing

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right now, but just a little bit maybe.

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Basically, you want to just add some
texture and some rendering at the same time.

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And once the first
rendering like this is in place,

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I will then paint on top of my lines,
to make them disappear slowly.

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So right now, it's just a matter
of adding a little bit more shadow here and there,

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and I think that from here--
from here, I will start to paint on top the lines.

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So I'm going to create a new layer of top of the lines and then I'll just go a little bit closer.

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And to help me, I will also just put my line a little bit less apparent.

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A little bit more transparent, like this, around 50%.

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From here it's gonna be easier. And
from here, it's the same thing that I did

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with the circle. So basically I'm going
to take a hard edge brush,

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And I'm going to start to render, starting by painting

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say, the eyelid here, I'm just going to
paint this.

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When I want to make a transition, then I'm going to take a softer brush, but something with

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with some texture, and just create that
transition. Then I'll go back to a

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hard edge brush, and just continue painting.

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It's a technique that requires a little bit more patience. And from here. it's basically the same thing that I'll

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do over and over again. just trying to
render with one brush then switch to

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something softer, if I want to have a
softer transition. But still with

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something with texture. So I'm going to
do that for the next few minutes, and

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I'll stop a little bit later to show you
a little bit more details.

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Ok so from here, I feel like I have like
a basic plan done. As you can see,

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there's like rough parts a little bit
everywhere. And at this point, what I'm

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going to do is to go a little bit
more in details.

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I'm still going to use the same kind of
brushes so, hard edge and softer edge with the texture,

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but I'm just going to go
more in details.

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So I'm going to start by rendering the eyes
and just walk around everywhere, and try

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to render it to a point that I feel
comfortable.

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So there you go! There's a little bit
more detail here, and as you can see, I've

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been using only the same kind of brushes:
so the hard edge brushes and the softer brush with texture,

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to render a little bit more.

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And at this point, I feel like this study
is pretty much already done.

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Obviously, it's up to me to just add more
time, and more detail to it but I think

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at this stage is pretty much done.

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So there you go! If you want to have the set
of brushes that I'm using for this tutorial,

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you can download them at the
bottom of this video.

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I will also give you a link where you can actually see
this picture online,

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and from there, you can actually give it a try.

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And that's it for this tutorial!
I hope that you find this helpful.

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And as usual...
Happy Painting!