Texture Creation for Digital Illustration in Photoshop
Digital Textures
A course by Nicholas Stevenson , Illustrator, Animator, and University Lecturer
Joined May 2020
About the video: Digital Textures
Overview
“So till now, we’ve been operating on the assumption that digital images have no texture and don’t decay. That we need to bring these qualities from elsewhere. In this lesson we will explore if this is strictly true.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Stevenson addresses the topic: Digital 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
“Digital Textures Up until now, we've been operating under the assumption that digital images don't have textures. They don't age, weather or decay. Those marks we have to bring in from somewhere else. But is that necessarily true? We'll look at that in this lesson. In order to investigate this idea of digital textures, we're going to try deep frying images, deep frying was a meme that emerged where you're up the compression on images and try to reduce the quality as much as you can to make the image look funny. So we can do that on this website. We're going to take an image. Let's start wit...”
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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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