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mercurycode β€” Work In Progress: That's how I make textures!

Published: 2014-03-19 14:00:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 3283; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 168
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Description A lot of you have been asking me how I make my digital textures, so finally here's a work in progress for you. -> Download for a huge resolution!!

It's not really a tutorial, but it shows you some different approaches and layering processes. I thought it would make more sense not only to show one or two textures but ten.

Hope you like it, let me know what you think! β™₯

EDIT: Here's a Making Of I recently published:
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Comments: 34

cocoaberi [2020-11-07 03:36:31 +0000 UTC]

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Britex55 [2016-01-18 16:02:31 +0000 UTC]

Love this - it really helps to see the layering order and blending. Gonna try some...thank you! Β Love your work.

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mercurycode In reply to Britex55 [2016-01-20 15:39:21 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much, I appreciate the feedback Let me know how it goes!

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Unevxntful [2015-05-24 09:34:46 +0000 UTC]

Wait, it this just texture over texture? or is it like drawing? WHAAA!! so Complicated!!

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mercurycode In reply to Unevxntful [2015-05-25 13:00:00 +0000 UTC]

Not that complicated, just many layers to the process of making a complex texture

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ELOart [2014-06-26 00:14:24 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, so many layers.

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mercurycode In reply to ELOart [2014-06-26 08:27:09 +0000 UTC]

Yep and that's not all layers, just a few selected ones
Thanks!

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ELOart In reply to mercurycode [2014-06-26 08:48:05 +0000 UTC]

Not all layers? Even more impressive.
Greatfuls.

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mercurycode In reply to ELOart [2014-06-26 10:58:37 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure sometimes I have up to 15 steps, layers can be way more. It's very different every time.
Thanks for checking it out!

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Zinpachi [2014-04-08 14:38:22 +0000 UTC]

You made it looks so simple oAo . Im so jealousΒ Β 

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mercurycode In reply to Zinpachi [2014-04-08 14:42:51 +0000 UTC]

Ohhh... well, this might sound pretty lame but: Skill comes with practise! It's an ancient wisdom but so true! Every time I start making a texture it's all trial and error for me, too. Sometimes I make a texture and I hate it so much that I just trash it and noone ever gets to see it, except for maybe my boyfriend, haha

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Zinpachi In reply to mercurycode [2014-04-08 16:57:24 +0000 UTC]

Oh lol im an artist to xD , my profile pic is a picture i drew and i trahsed it on 4 different occasions, took me a week to process what I wanted. I'm just very unfamiliar with this style of art, very unique from my perspective.Β 

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mercurycode In reply to Zinpachi [2014-04-08 18:53:13 +0000 UTC]

I so know that feeling But it's always worth trying again!

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So-ghislaine [2014-03-28 08:23:53 +0000 UTC]

This is helpful and nice to see! These are all little changes, but at the end the texture is very different. I especially like the coloring you add. Thanks for posting this

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mercurycode In reply to So-ghislaine [2014-03-28 10:50:54 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, most of the time it's many little steps and then suddenly I have a completely different texture than what I started off with. Thanks for the feeback, my friend

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CD-STOCK [2014-03-22 17:03:12 +0000 UTC]

danke fΓΌrs zeigen

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mercurycode In reply to CD-STOCK [2014-03-22 19:37:55 +0000 UTC]

sehr gern

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UnicornSaint [2014-03-20 19:36:10 +0000 UTC]

*_* wonderful! thank you for sharing!

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mercurycode In reply to UnicornSaint [2014-03-21 11:03:06 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure :> Might do another in a few months!

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Multiartis [2014-03-20 04:25:09 +0000 UTC]

Real nice how to look at this progress. To look at the different steps.
Really like the progress in the 7th one.
Thanks for sharing this.

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mercurycode In reply to Multiartis [2014-03-20 08:34:29 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, happy to hear that

The 7th one was super fun, I didn't expect for it to turn out to be so pretty!

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Sirius-sdz [2014-03-19 18:30:21 +0000 UTC]

wonderful to see this as a progress, hope you make some more like these

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mercurycode In reply to Sirius-sdz [2014-03-19 20:44:54 +0000 UTC]

In time Maybe!

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artbymba [2014-03-19 16:54:06 +0000 UTC]

This is very useful understanding the layering; not only for creating textures but also for understanding how to use them in manipulations.
Thank you!

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mercurycode In reply to artbymba [2014-03-19 17:17:06 +0000 UTC]

Aww thanks I hoped it would be useful somehow!

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soapfroth [2014-03-19 16:21:14 +0000 UTC]

impressive how something simple turns out to be so different and beautiful.
great work!

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mercurycode In reply to soapfroth [2014-03-19 16:50:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, my friend!

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duesterheit [2014-03-19 15:56:10 +0000 UTC]

This is actually quite dope I must say

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mercurycode In reply to duesterheit [2014-03-19 16:51:19 +0000 UTC]

Great, I hoped it would be!

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Chaos--Child [2014-03-19 15:05:56 +0000 UTC]

neat it's cool to see how you go about creating these!

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mercurycode In reply to Chaos--Child [2014-03-19 16:52:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you it's so different each time! A lot of things happen by accident, too!

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Chaos--Child In reply to mercurycode [2014-03-21 02:51:52 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome I like happy accidents, sometimes they're even more exciting than doing something on purpose.

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mercurycode In reply to Chaos--Child [2014-03-21 11:06:38 +0000 UTC]

Yes, they certainly have a very surprising effect... Sometimes I just sit there playing around in photoshop, suddenly something happens I didn't expect and then I'll go all "Uhhhhhhhh!! OMG Sirius, you gotta take a look at his!" Same when he experiences a happy accident!

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Chaos--Child In reply to mercurycode [2014-03-21 13:57:07 +0000 UTC]

Nice XD I do about the same.

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