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This drawing was a lot of fun to do – it has been a while since I created one from scratch and no AI was used. I am trying to stay away from this as much as possible right now. All Photoshop brushes were used and many were adjusted to get the effect I wanted. As learned by doing my selfie series, one of my favorite brushes is a Chalk Brush with a heavy texture added in the texture settings. The original image used a Legacy Chalk brush with a texture taken from the legacy Crayon Brush (see my Just Drawing and Painting in Photoshop Fun Photoshop Blog – at bottom go to Adding Texture to Your Brush Information section on how to do this.) Used David Belliveau’s Paintable free brush download of Portrait Brushes (Textured brush 02). Created the collar and jewelry from Jessica Johnson‘s Chain Brushes set and her Luxe-Gold Leopard Exclusive brushes set to Mixer and sampling a gold texture. Need to sign up for her newsletter to learn this technique ,and she often sends out free brushes to try. These were Christmas give-aways from a couple years ago. Stacked a couple 2 Little Owls old textures from years ago. Hope you enjoy her thoughtful expression…..Digital Lady Syd
