How to create cool textures for digital creations

Overview

“Illustrating on a computer can be a fast and efficient way to execute your work. However, sometimes the result can feel flat and lack tactile qualities. To combat this, you'll learn how to create a texture for shading purposes. ”

In this video lesson Matt McCracken and Ross Proulx addresses the topic: Shading Texture, which is part of the Domestika online course: How to create cool textures for digital creations. Make your art prints stand out by creating unique and cool textures..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I'm going to introduce you to texture creation, and in particular, the shading texture. Illustrating on the computer can be a fast and efficient way to execute your work. However, sometimes the illustrations can feel flat and lack the tactile qualities you get when illustrating by hand. This is where textures can be useful to give your artwork that missing sense of warmth and a more lively, hands-on feeling. We first started adding textures to our designs when we learned how to screen print posters. It can be a difficult printing process to learn, and we weren't very good at...”

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Course summary for: How to create cool textures for digital creations

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (26)
• 857 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 38m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Art Direction, Graphic Design, Poster Design