How Do You Get The Textures You Use In Digital Art Like That?

How do you get the textures you use in digital art like that?

so like, for stuff like this yea? There's several different ways to do things, but I have a few quick go-to methods that I use often, like

Very fond of this brush "empire of dust", which is a really nice color shifting dual color metallic brush. I'll pick colors for my illustration and set it to an effects layer (color dodge, overlay, soft light, etc.) and then very gently erase parts of it with any number of my texture brushes. Really fond of this wood grain esp.

similar with this scratched gold and this Damascus brush (well, the entire brush set)

The real magic starts to happen when you start mixing them together with different layer effects. I also use stock textures, textures I've made and collected over the years, and different painting methods (in procreate, no 'instant' way to do it, but stuff like duplicating my painting layer, darkening the bottom duplicate layer, and using that to create brush shadows--in photoshop you can achieve this with brush toolsets or stroke/drop shadow layers).

But that's pretty much how I do it! Excuse the sloppy edit, I did this on top of some coimc work lol

Steve/Tony Endgame Event Interest Poll

I've been thinking about hosting a Steve/Tony fanworks event/exchange focused on their relationship and scenes in Endgame and beyond (2023 seems appropriate :P), so here's a poll to see how many people might be interested.

Reblogs welcome!

If you want to participate in the event, please help @thahiree and I out by answering a couple more questions here about the event, thanks - it takes less than a minute :)

Pick a Colour Pallatte, a character, + a Word and I will Draw it!*

(*Not me btw! I don't do digital art lol, I just made this becuase the colour schemes I made look super pretty and I know my friends might like it since they do digital art <3)

Welcome to Stony AUgust!

Find rules under the cut.

Join us on Discord for a fun, interactive environment. You do not have to participate in the Stony AUniverse Bingo to join the Stony AUgust challenge!

♡ Each week you are given an AU theme. Your work must be based in an Alternate Universe within that theme. Use your imagination, and feel free to use your bingo card. You do not have to use your card, but this is an easy way to spark some inspo! You don't have to be signed up for the bingo to participate.

♡ Feel free to make as many works in a week as you please! We just ask that you wait until that week to post.

♡ NSFW works are welcome for all weeks!

♡ Works must be Stony-centric, but polyamorous relationships are allowed!

♡ There are no work minimums or maximums.

♡ No underage works with sexual material are allowed.

♡ We have a dedicated AO3 collection for Stony AUgust event. In addition, if you @ stonyauniverse and/or tag us #stonyaugust on tumblr or twitter, we will reblog/retweet your post!

Let us know if you have any questions!

Steve + blush + magnolia forest for the color palette art thing. 💜💜

Thank you so much for sending me this request ♡ It was a lot of fun. And gave me a reason to try out some new digital watercolor brushes I bought 😊 I hope you enjoy!

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