I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them.
Firstly, what you need are
— CUSTOM BRUSHES —
Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:
For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):
This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu
You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once
This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME
Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:
– under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15%
– under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.
– If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your backgrounds
The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE
— PATHS —
But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.
Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:
Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.
Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:
Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years
You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.
I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:
crap.
Since i started drawing again, it’s like a damm broke or something. So.Many.Ideasss!!! I need a separate blog for each one of them *hhnnnnggggghhhhhhhhhh*
i can’t go on like this, i’ll burn out before i do anything! Heck!
Here is another photoshop tutorial for you all. This was requested by @simsthatsparkle , thank you for the suggestion! Also a huge thank you to @ridgeport for creating the stunning sim! Keep reading to go to the tutorial.
“This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a speech tag.”
“This is a full sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence.”
“This is a sentence followed by an action.” He smiled. “They’re separate sentences, because I didn’t speak by smiling.”
We need an extended post covering ALL sentences.
*cracks knuckles*
(anyone, feel free to correct me if I’ve made any errors, and add your own!)
“This is a phrase”—she was glaring at the computer—”she wrote while glaring at the computer.”
“This phrase—” she paused, pointing at the computer “—she broke up with an action.”
She began, “I can’t believe that you would—” “—finish other people’s sentences?” he finished.
“It is generally not possible to walk a sentence,” she said, walking, “so you can’t write a sentence that goes, ‘Blah blah blah, he walked.’ You need to start it as a different sentence or phrase, as with the final OP example or, in fact, this one. “Also, at least in American punctuation practices, single quotes are used when quoting something in dialogue. In British punctuation, it’s the other way around. (At least that I’m aware of). “Also, also, notice that in multi-paragraph quotes, you don’t put an end-quote at the end of a paragraph unless it’s the final one. It is understood that each paragraph is still the same speaker.”
“Just because you end a quote in an exclamation point or question mark doesn’t mean you capitalize the dialogue tag after the fact!?” he blurted.
“Not all dialogue needs dialogue tags so long as you know who is speaking!” “Can you sometimes know who is speaking just by turn-of-phrase, subject matter, and names used?” “Yes, other person in the scene. You can.”
It is highly dependent on publisher and personal preference, he thought, but various types of internal monologues and memories, etc, may be italicized. But they don’t have to be italicized, she mused. And to that, she said to herself, ‘Sometimes thoughts or memories or telepathic speech are even written with single or double quotes, but must be differentiated between actual dialogue somehow, such as italic text.’
And guess what? he said. Some books don’t even use quotation marks
when people say things. It’s rare, but when done well, is an effective
style of story-telling. Really? Really.
A reminder that all the best people were once beginners. If you want to become really good at something, keep practicing even when you don’t see progress immediately. You can’t see it, but you’re improving a little bit every time you practice. Keep going and one day you’ll be amazing at it.
catch of breath, choke, gulp, heave, inhale, pant, puff, snort, wheeze, huff, rasp, sharp intake of air, short of breath, struggle for breath, swallow, winded
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