Enhancing Your Concepts with Textures in Photoshop
We'll begin this training by starting with a sketch of our forest creature, along with visualizing the environment that our concept exists in. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
What you'll learn
We'll begin this training by starting with a sketch of our forest creature, along with visualizing the environment that our concept exists in. From there, we'll spend several lessons using some different methods of blocking in textures to develop and evolve the look of our forest creature. As we apply our textures we'll be working in grayscale so that we can focus on maintaining our values first. Once our textures have been blocked in, we'll begin to refine our concept and learn how to apply color. We'll finish our concept by exploring how to place our forest creature into an environment that compliments his appearance. By utilizing the methods of applying textures in this course you'll be able to add more depth and personality to your own concepts. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
Table of contents
- Adding a Base Skin Texture to Our Sketch 15m
- Texturing the Horns of Our Forest Creature 14m
- Adding Patches of Bark Texture to Our Forest Creature 13m
- Painting Moss Textures Onto Our Forest Creature 13m
- Adding Rock Textures and Forms to Our Forest Creature Concept 14m
- Texturing the Eyes of Our Forest Creature Concept 13m
- Texturing the Mouth Interior of Our Forest Creature 9m
- Refining Our Blocked in Textures 15m
- Continue to Refine Our Grayscale Textured Forest Creature 14m
- Blocking in Color 14m
- Continuing to Apply Color to Our Concept 9m
- Refining Our Forest Creature Concept with Some Final Details 12m
- Setting Our Forest Character into a Scene 7m
- Adjusting the Depth of Field of Our Concept 5m
About the author
Kurt is a design tutor at Pluralsight. Ever since he could hold a crayon, Kurt has been in love with drawing. Apart from his dedication to training artists at Pluralsight, Kurt has an extensive background in illustration. He has previously worked for a book publisher, as well as Rhythm and Hues Studios. It was through his extensive industry background that Kurt learned the way of the Wacom, and that the Pen tool is truly mightier than the sword. Along with creating beautiful 2D illustrations,... more