hand drawn wood texture help!

Justin Meisse

well, I almost broke my tablet across my knee in frustration. I can't do wood, if someone could do a tutorial on how to paint a wood texture I'd be eternally grateful.

Xenobond

have you made any custom brushes in photoshop before?

Keg

this help?

http://www.geocities.com/jeboothjr/Tutorials/Wood/Wood.htm

Xenobond

probably helps if you also tell us what kind of wood you are looking for. haha

Justin Meisse

basically any kind of wood but professional level.
here my most recent attempt with a custom brush:

I started drawing some more detail on top

EarthQuake

Heh heh, you said wood.

http://st.burst.cc/tutorials.htm

Slum

ack. I'd post the tutorial I made a while back if I could find the bloody thing. yarrgh!

Bronco

Hey Justin

I don't think you have a bad start here,especially on the base,its the darker lines where you have tried to add knots that seem to be the problem area.

The reason I think for that is the base wood lines are not flowing into the knots as they should.

Heres an example:- http://www.purephotoshop.com/uploads/wood_planks001.jpg

Notice how the lines go around the knot,compacting exstremily close together at the top and bottom of the knot and streching out into a tear drop shape..Its this effect that yours is missing.

maybe you could mess with the curves to bring those lines out more? see what it looks like.

Another suggestion would be to use a wood texture that of a similar style to yours,that has knots and just overlay it and just follow the lines as a template,you could call this abit of a cop out but at the end of the day its whatever looks cool and gets the job done.


Hope ive helped.

John

Justin Meisse

thanks guys, it isn't perfect but better than I've achieved in the past:

adam

Uh.. why would you want to hand-draw a wood texture that is closer to realism than cartoony? You could save yourself a LOT if you sourced the material.

MoP

Needs more contrast and variance in the grain, I would say. Some darker thin lines and looping knots might look cool.

Wokky

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Uh.. why would you want to hand-draw a wood texture that is closer to realism than cartoony? You could save yourself a LOT if you sourced the material.

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It's not always possible to find a source which looks exactly how you want, so learning to hand-paint it is probably good practise.

Of course, I would just use a photo; I'm a lazy bastard.

adam

Theres a ton of photo resource images out there for wood. I'm positive you could find the one you wanted - at least for a start then paint in the exact detailing you're looking for.

JordanW

I wouldnt say it's a bad thing he's trying to paint the wood Adam. I certainly wouldnt want having to find photos for everything I textured to become a crutch ^_^

Justin Meisse

tried some tweakage:

Erol

That's nice looking wood. But I'm with Adam. If it's not going to have some style to it, manipulating wood images might be a better use of on-the-job time (if it were a job task.) Of course, on your own time, practicing anything is better than practicing nothing!

Irritant

That's nice work Justin. Wood has to be one of the hardest things to get right I think. I've never managed to do it in my feeble attempts.

Rhinokey

well it is good practice to learn to paint everything,, teaches you the tools and the ways to use them. if i needed real wood in a work enviroment i would probably photosource,, but it would be neat to be able to make realistic wood from scratch, just to know how and be able to