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rejamrejam — Cheater texture and vignette BG brushes tutorial
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Published: 2020-03-10 22:52:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1499; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 13
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This is the method I use for the vignette/stylized BGs that I put on my warmup sketches. These are great for putting down a quick evocative background "shape" that isn't actually a background, for sprucing up simple sketches and making them look a little more polished without having to draw a BG up from scratch.
You can, of course, just copy/paste a photo in and make it all one color, but this has two advantages: firstly in being reusable, and secondly in being more easily adjustable on the fly (for me, anyway). Once you do the adjustments once, you have a tree/cloud/texture/whatever to use forever that you can easily apply rotation, filters, gradients, and color dynamics to without having to open the separate photo each time.
I also just think they look better and more stylized like this and tend to "blend" with the drawing better
See some examples here:
(Twitter) - water "rays" used as sunshine
I used Photoshop for this and the tutorial assumes some knowledge of Photoshop, but the basic principles apply across software!
Subscribers to my Patreon also received a zip file containing ten premade textures and additional resources!
You can find more resources, including a Gradient Map tutorial
to replicate the last effect in this tutorial, in my resources folder.
If you found this helpful I'd love a tip !
Images were sourced from pexels.com and unsplash.com and are properly licensed for this use.
Specific thanks to:
