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Some Photoshop Tips

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’:

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you cant just say you have a hack for drawing pinstripes and not tell us jude cmon

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My friend claimed he could play Flight of the Bumblebee and accompany himself. Then he did this.

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Im gonna clean up this filthy, filthy blog

In a couple days I will be deleting a ton of posts so that the blog is easier to scroll through! Now is your last chance to view the garbage before I devour it all in one gluttonous, sinful meal.

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Tom out for dinner with Jake Gyllenhaal after CCXP | Dec 8

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i hate when people are like UHM FRUIT ISNT ACTUALLY GOOD FOR YOU IT HAS A LOT OF SUGAR like shut the fuck up go eat your nutritionally complete meal powder you bought off a fucking kickstarter project okay let me enjoy a clementine 

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god nerfed me by making me allergic to garlic and sunlight

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oh????

OHHHH

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i’m obligated to accept friend requests from people i knew from high school because otherwise how else would i see shit like this posted in earnest

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Inktober day 5. Gotta stop making weird characters for these challenges

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Inktober day 4. Thought I posted this oops

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Inktober day 3. Was going to do roasted but since I couldn’t think of a good idea did a character design at work .3.

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Inktober day 2. Tranquility

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I’m a art blog

If you’re a freakin artist

If you’re an artist if you’re an artist and have an art blog share it with me !! I wanna follow more art blogs. Could be anything, could be cute, or edgy, anime or real, safe for work or.. heh… as long as it’s not a sonic OC wearing a baby diaper then we’re good

I just wanna follow more art blogs, wont mean I’ll follow all of them thanks, but you’re welcome to show off.

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Second merman pic. Gotta love tropical fish. Haven’t colored in a while and wanted to flex those muscles

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I forgot about mermay. I am currently catching up lol

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Reblog if you’re an original art blog!

I’m always looking for new artists to follow (will be from my main account @astrikos ) as I’m sure many of you are! I encourage you guys to go through the notes in this post and check out each other’s work. 

Also through @art-res: Promote Your Art Commissions to +11k Dashes