Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop
Combining Textures and Sketches
A course by Francisco Fonseca , Illustrator and Artist
About the video: Combining Textures and Sketches
Overview
“Once you have your textures imported into Photoshop, the next step is to select those that will work best for your piece. To do this, I encourage you to imagine the final result of your illustration and choose the textures that will help to bring that image to life. In this lesson, you will see my step-by-step process as I experiment, crop, and adjust the angles to find the perfect textural effect. ”
In this video lesson Francisco Fonseca addresses the topic: Combining Textures and Sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop. Learn to draw an imaginary place by combing analog tools like watercolors, pencils, and a sketchbook with Photoshop to add vibrant texture .
Partial transcription of the video
“Combining Textures and Sketches In this lesson, we'll learn how to combine textures and sketches using Photoshop as a tool. Let's do it. We'll start combining our final sketch with textures. Firstly, check if your file is unlocked. It's already unlocked here. To see if a file is locked or unlocked, check if a lock appears here. If there is a lock, double-click, and you'll be able to work on the image. The first thing to do is clean our sketch a bit, as you can see these borders are a bit messy and the composition in the canvas is not straight or centered. First, use this Crop tool to find t...”
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Course summary for: Imaginary Places: Draw, Paint, and Digitize on Photoshop
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Sketching

Francisco Fonseca
A course by Francisco Fonseca
Francisco Fonseca is an illustrator born and raised in Paço de Sousa, a small village in Portugal. Since he was a child, he has shown great interest in representation through drawing, being strongly influenced by the spaces that surrounded him. Still, to this day, nothing has changed. After completing his master's in drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2018, he dedicated himself full time to illustration.
In addition to several solo and group exhibitions like À mão (2019) and Lugares, he founded Porta 98, and is co-founder of Garden Skate Co. Francisco also dedicates himself to the investigation of myths and legends, and he tries to give a voice to the inhabitants of his city. Through his illustrations, he aims to build a bridge between different generations to rescue a cultural heritage from oblivion, which he considers to be brimming with richness.
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