Children’s Digital Illustration: Colors and Textures
Create brushes in Photoshop
A course by John Joven , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Create brushes in Photoshop
Overview
“You will learn how to create your own brushes in Photoshop. I'll show you how to digitize the stains and prepare your arsenal. ”
In this video lesson John Joven addresses the topic: Create brushes in Photoshop, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Digital Illustration: Colors and Textures. Learn to create illustrations that tell endearing stories by combining the use of analog textures and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“Create brushes in Photoshop The brush creation process works pretty much the same no matter what software you use. Basically you will need a good scanner. Let's start. Here you can see the differences in the type of scanner. While in the left file some tonal variations can be noticed, on the right, where we use the text settings, They are forceful stains, they are almost silhouettes, but this file, as I told you previously, you must convert it to gray to be able to manipulate it. To make our first brush, we duplicate that scanner and cut out the stain that we are going to use. The next thin...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Digital Illustration: Colors and Textures
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

John Joven
A course by John Joven
John Joven started drawing at a young age and is now a graphic designer by trade and an illustrator at heart. With more than 22 years of experience in the industry, his characters and illustrations have appeared in magazine and newspaper articles, children's books, and animation projects around the world.
Throughout his career, he has created illustrations for children's stories published by major companies like McGraw Hill, Planeta, and Macmillan. He has also designed images for Amazon, Avianca, and National Geographic Channel.
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