Playful Animal Illustration with Photoshop
Textures
A course by Gareth Lucas , Illustrator
About the video: Textures
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you how to apply different brushes to various objects in the composition in order to create textures. ”
In this video lesson Gareth Lucas addresses the topic: Textures, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Animal Illustration with Photoshop. Explore digital tools to create lively works of art filled with texture, patterns, and color.
Partial transcription of the video
“Textures In this lesson, we'll continue working on our animal design and we'll start to use brushes to add some textures. In a previous lesson, I showed you some of the different types of brushes that we have in Photoshop, but now we'll take that a bit further and apply them to our image. This is a fun way of adding texture and dynamism to our illustrations, so I'm looking forward to adding some brushes to our toucans. Let's start using these brushes and add some texture to our work. What we'll do is try and be as linear as possible. We'll start with the background and work our way up to th...”
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Course summary for: Playful Animal Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Gareth Lucas
A course by Gareth Lucas
Gareth Lucas is a freelance illustrator from Essex, England. As a child, he loved to draw and eventually went on to study illustration at Brighton University. After graduating, Gareth worked on everything from label designs to anthology illustrations before going back to university to study for an MA in illustration. During that time, he taught graphic design alongside his studies and began experimenting with digital tools which allowed him to take his freelance career full-time in 2014.
Since then, Gareth has worked with clients including Abrams Books, Penguin, Birdseye, and Simon and Schuster. He also shares his illustrations with over 100K followers on Instagram.
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