Free Photoshop Textures for Digital Illustration

Download free textured images to enhance your digital illustrations with unique details and effects in Photoshop

Digital illustration offers you infinite possibilities when it comes to creating, giving you the freedom to experiment with various techniques and tools to achieve your desired outcome—and Adobe Photoshop is the perfect tool to let your imagination run free.

Fatinha Ramos (@fatinha_ramos) is an expert on the subject. After more than a decade working in design and art direction, the Portuguese-born artist decided to pursue an old dream: to become a full-time illustrator. Using conceptual illustrations with surrealist touches, she creates work that leaves a positive impact on the world by combining manual textures and digital tools in Photoshop.

Fatinha has worked with major clients including MoMA, Google, Amnesty International, The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, Scientific American, among others. Her works have also been recognized and awarded internationally by American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators NY, 3×3 Magazine, Communication Arts, World Illustrations Awards, Creative Quarterly, Global Illustration Awards, Cannes Lions, and more.

At the bottom of this post, Fatinha shares digitized textures from her personal library that you can play with to customize and enrich your own illustrations in Photoshop.

But, before you download the materials and start experimenting, watch the Domestika tutorial below to learn more tricks for how to bring your characters to life using textures and gloss in Photoshop.

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Add Texture and Gloss to Your Characters

Using only a few tools in Photoshop you can bring a flat, one-dimensional illustration to life by adding volume, texture, and movement through details that make a huge difference to the narrative of seemingly static images.

Digital artist Joana Neves (@joananeves) loves using illustrations to build stories, and in this Photoshop tutorial teaches you her step-by-step method for bringing illustrations to life with Photoshop tools that add gloss and texture to skin and hair. Watch below:

Download a Free Texture Pack for Digital Illustration in Photoshop

In this resource, you'll find a collection of digitized textures from Fatinha Ramos' personal library. Each of them is 600 dpi so you can use them in your own creations.

After clicking on the button below, you will find a file in .zip format in the Downloads folder on your computer titled Photoshop Textures for Digital Illustration, by Fatinha Ramos. You may need to use free software such as WinZip to decompress the file.

Si quieres aprender más, you can do so by signing up for Fatinha Ramos' online course, Illustration with a Social Purpose: Leave Your Artistic Mark. Through the course, you will learn how to create conceptual illustrations that evoke a positive impact on the world by combining manual textures and digital tools in Photoshop.

For more, don't forget to check out Domestika's online digital illustration courses and explore more original content on the Illustration and Digital Painting section of our blog.

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