This is a WIP picture of my latest sketch. I though, you’d be interested to know how use photo textures in a speed painting like this one. I got the actual texture photo of a rocky moss from cgtextures.com, and I overlayed it on top of the painting, when it was in it’s early stage. Here’s how I did it.
- First, lower the opacity. I used about 40% opacity.
- Set the layer blend mode to soft light.
- Reduce the saturation of the texture layer to almost black and white
- Add layer mask and erase stuff out of the texture layer from those parts, where it looks too striking. The texture shouldn’t cover everything, just bits and pieces. Erase textures at least from deep shadow areas.
Now your texture should be blended in pretty smoothly, like in this WIP -picture. Now just continue painting on top of the texture layer and it will be covered with regular layers, thus making them all blend together nicely.
This is how you use textures in a digital painting.
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