Texture Creation for Digital Illustration in Photoshop
Scanning and Adjusting Your Textures
A course by Nicholas Stevenson , Illustrator, Animator, and University Lecturer
Joined May 2020
Joined May 2020
About the video: Scanning and Adjusting Your Textures
Overview
“In this lesson we’ll learn how to scan and prepare textures to bring out the best in them.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Stevenson addresses the topic: Scanning and Adjusting Your Textures, which is part of the Domestika online course: Texture Creation for Digital Illustration in Photoshop. Create unique illustrations full of texture and mood using brushes, ink, objects, and prints.
Partial transcription of the video
“Scanning and Adjusting Your Textures It's time to start scanning the textures that we can begin to manipulate in Photoshop. For example, I'm going to use this piece of A4 recycled paper. We can bring out the nice qualities that we want to use in our work. This is my trusty old scanner, it's really old. It's a combo printer/scanner, a very cheap one. I think I've made every children's book using this scanner. It goes to show you don't need one of the expensive large scanners to get results, particularly the way I manipulate things. There's a low-fi mentality to what I'm doing and this scanne...”
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Course summary for: Texture Creation for Digital Illustration in Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Nicholas Stevenson
A course by Nicholas Stevenson
Nicholas Stevenson is a UK-based illustrator and animator known for his magical and atmospheric textured images. Using old books, papers, and prints, he creates unique, handmade textures that are used to create digital illustrations with added authenticity and emotion.
Nicholas is a lecturer at Hereford College of Arts in the UK. He has illustrated for leading publications and brands including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Google Arts & Culture, and Save the Children. His work can also be found in non-fiction children’s books and on a wide variety of album covers.
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