'Hand Painted' Step by step thing of some sort.

JFletcher

Hi,

I get a lot of emails and PM's asking for hand painted texturing techniques, so i figure this might be more helpful than me constantly having to reply awkward "keep practising" replies as i cant really put it in words:



You might notice the weird 'Smudge habit' i have. Yeah, what i do isn't very traditional and i wouldn't really call it hand painted but i enjoy it and it gets the job done for me.

May be weird smudge artefacts but that's part of the fun.

So yeah, If this helps anyone..yeah!

Devin Busha

Awesome, Thanks for sharing JFletcher! I gotta be honest tho, it could use a lil more Lens Flare.

diffa

Great stuff!

kdm3d

The final product looks good here. Question for you though, you mentioned flattening your layers, do you ever have any trouble going back and retouching your work? Seems to me that the only downside to this process is the whole non-destructability issue. Have you given masks and such a try? would it yield the same results for you?

OrganizedChaos

One thing that never ceases to amuse me is how many different ways you can go about making a hand painted texture. Thanks for the post-

bounchfx

that was amusing. thanks! lol

Cyrael

sweet tut man. thanks for that.

gsokol

Thanks for sharing. I hardly ever use the smudge tool..I'll have to give that a shot.

bbob

I the smudge tool.

kdm3d wrote: »

The final product looks good here. Question for you though, you mentioned flattening your layers, do you ever have any trouble going back and retouching your work? Seems to me that the only downside to this process is the whole non-destructability issue. Have you given masks and such a try? would it yield the same results for you?

Another tip, if you dont like flattening the whole thing; make a new layer, go into image>apply image. This will make a copy of the image in that new layer.

Wells

smudge tool is clutch! add a bit of scattering onto a custom brush, voila!

kdm3d - i find that flattening everything on painterly pieces like this is only ever a good thing. if you need to change something, you paint on top of it, adding to the richness. mistakes will only enhance it! having all your pixels on the same layer will greatly effect how certain things work... smudge, for example. you want to be mixing all those subtle flavors, not just what you have on your layer.

bbob's suggestion is the perfect compromise, though.

Calabi

Cool, Thanks JFletcher. I've been trying to learn how to paint textures, by learning how to paint, but I'm not getting very far, cant get the hang of blending(paint opacity then sample colour).

Can you get away with using the smudge brush all the time?

PolyHertz

Oh hell yes! Thanks JFletcher, I shall print it up and frame it on my wall

Justin Meisse

Great tutorial. I really should use smudge a little more, I overused it as a youngster but a noisy smudge brush really helps hide the digital smudge look.

Alot of times I will use eyedropper to color sample the intermediate colors you get at color borders. This is a rough example but the blend was done all with color sampling (hold down alt)

Josh_Singh

Really cool. One suggestion, Rather than using the smudge tool, I like to set my brush to a low opacity like around in the ranges of 21-75, and color pick like crazy from the resulting gradients.

*edit* Jesse Beat me to it

AimBiZ

Good stuff JFletcher. Thanks alot!

blankslatejoe

Nice tutorial! Along the lines of smudge blending, Linda Bergkvist did this awesome little tutorial:

Zipfinator

Nice tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to write this up!

SHEPEIRO

nice

oxygencube

Thanks for posting this. I hand paint textures here @ work and can always use tips and suggestions. :thumbup:

Vrav

Can't blame you for using the smudge tool in Photoshop. I'm surprised the program still lacks the "wet" brush blending seen in other apps like Painter and even MyPaint. Nice method with the lines, very smart. Thanks!

Justin Meisse

knowledge bombs be gettin dropped, yo!

Mazvix

Thanks for the tips fletcher

I do agree with Vrav though, I noticed great artists use Corel painter especially at Blizzard and Carbine. It is an app I need to practice more with if I expect to push myself more into this art direction. The smooth wet brush feels more natural to me and less work when you are painting with hard edge brushes like I do, hehe.

Rurouni Strife

Needed these for the future when I attempt a hand painted anything. Thank you much!!

JFletcher

Thanks guys,

Yeah that's kind of the point, people keep saying they like my hand painted work but in reality i'm quite a novice at the traditional methods of painting in photoshop, with weird ass brushes and what not..

Guess its something to work on.

Question for you though, you mentioned flattening your layers, do you ever have any trouble going back and retouching your work?

I know it sounds weird, but it usually works out for the better (for me).

dubcanada

Thanks a bunch! I kind of got stuck on the lighting part. But I managed to slightly alter it and make it look alright. I've never used smudge tool for hand painting textures before. Rather interesting.

Raider

ahhh smudge painting, should be right up my ally from all the charcoal smudging i used to do from drawing, i don't think i had regular coloured fingers the entire way through uni

Emil Mujanovic

This is pretty dope, JFletcher! So simple yet so effective.

gibson543

Yes!!! My email did not go unanswered thanks a bunch!

Echo

Damn, this is an awesome tut! I'm a 2d artist that's taking up 3d and I thought I would be great at texturing, but I actually suck. This tut should help a lot, I had no idea how useful the smudge tool is when texturing. I'm always staunchly avoided the smudge tool in my paintings, but I'm totally using it on my next texture. Thanks a ton Fletcher!!

crazyfingers

Great tutorial! Picked up a couple things for sure. Imma PM you about how you go about making such a kick arse tut!

snake85027

Maybe people can post some art using this tutorial.

Echo

Once I have done the texture using this tutorial I will absolutely post it.

3DK.P.

Awesome tut man! I was definitely going about it a different way, anxious to try out your method.

b1ll

Fun stuff man, Glad to see people still doing tut for hand painting stuff!



goodjob!

Joshflighter

You have no idea how much I love you right now.
Thank you!

KennyTies

wow, this is brilliant. I cant wait to try this out, as many others have said I am also trying to learn how to paint textures. Thanks again

Mladen Jovicic

thanks for the tutorial! gonna give this a try.

Zoid

Jerkazoid likes this link ... and thinks it should go into a sticky

Hazardous

wicked dudes!! Cheers !!

Autocon

Really cool of you to do this for all of use JFletcher! and everyone else who has contributed.

Noors

but i like lens flares

Loren Broach

Oh hey, I was one of those guys that PM'd you, thanks for this!

pables

Thanks, very useful!

Loren Broach

Alright, had to try it real quick. Smudge is awesome, I gotta use it more. Thanks again!

SimonT

thanks man! great!

achillesian

practice practice! great tut, you make it look so easy

Muzzoid

achill:

Go back to photoshop and stop spending 5 min on things. (also put more thought into colour choice.)

Nice tut.

jeremiah_bigley

That was one thing I noted about you Dominance War piece JFletcher was the textures...
Great piece btw It was my inspirational desktop for the longest time. And thank you for the tut on how you did the textures

Dean

Very cool, this is going to be very handy. Thanks!

r4ptur3

Thx Jfletch

illadam

Sweet tutorial man! I was going to wip up a ground texture today then I saw this so I gave it a go here's the results.



I'ma keep working on it but I like the technique I've been using the smudge method but I'm working on hand picking colors. This was all painted on one or two layers.