Scientific Illustration for Pattern Design
Creating the brush
A course by Diana Flores Blazquez , Scientific Illustrator
Joined February 2020
Joined February 2020
About the video: Creating the brush
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how the brush preferences work so that you can make a brush that you like, using the ones that are already predetermined in the program, and I will show you how to make a brush that looks a lot like a pencil to start sketching. ”
In this video lesson Diana Flores Blazquez addresses the topic: Creating the brush, which is part of the Domestika online course: Scientific Illustration for Pattern Design. Learn analog and digital techniques to design illustrated patterns with a protagonist: the beetle.
Partial transcription of the video
“Photoshop: Creating a Brush In this lesson, I'll teach you to create a brush from scratch and to edit one using the brush preferences on Photoshop. Let's start. First, let's open Photoshop and click on the Tool tab. That's what Photoshop looks like when opened. We click on this button on the left that says Create New and this window will pop up. First, let's change the name of our document. Let's call it Beetle Pencil. You can give it the name you prefer. We'll leave it at 500 pixels wide and 500 pixels high, you can change the units if you want. We'll use pixels, the orientation doesn't ma...”
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Course summary for: Scientific Illustration for Pattern Design
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pattern Design, Traditional illustration
Diana Flores Blazquez
A course by Diana Flores Blazquez
Diana Flores Blázquez is a Mexican visual artist and illustrator who mainly works in digital scientific illustration. She graduated from a Master's degree in illustration five years ago and developed her brand project, which is inspired by nature and real species to create elements of decoration and design. Since then, she has been working with private clients, institutions, and companies looking to bring the natural sciences to a wide variety of visual and artistic outlets.
Her clients range from people interested in a particular species to institutions and research centers, as well as stores and design brands. Diana has worked with UNAM and UAM in Mexico, the University of Campeche, and with brands such as Pineda Covalín.
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