Blowing in the Wind
Recently I published a blog called A Little Halloween and a Little Creativity with Photoshop which had a section on painting with watercolor brushes in Photoshop and specifically Kyle T. Webster’s (info on downloading them in blog link above) Wamazing Brushes. The leaves above were created using the Wamazing Basic and Wamazing Grit brushes. Then a Smudge brush was created using the same brush tip (select a Smudge brush and press CTRL + ALT – then go to the regular brush for example, and click on it – the Options Bar will show the Smudge Bar settings from the one you used for copying but maintain the Brush Settings that it can). Need to save it now or the next time you click on the brush in the Brushes Panel, it switches back to a regular brush. Did the same thing to create an Eraser Brush. Both the Smudge Brush (U) and Eraser (E) brushes toggle when you click on the shortcuts. These three brushes were the main one used after following Etherington Brothers How to Draw Leaves in the Wind. They have instructions on everything you would ever want to draw. When painting with these brushes, just use a dab stroke in most cases. Used Heart Pattern 45 from Resource Brothers and set it to 425% Scale and Japanese Pattern 133 set to 155% Scale. Used Kyle’s FX Box Add Canvas New brush (with no Shape Dynamics and using a light green color. This is located in his MegaPack.) On a New Layer on top a texture brush effect was one-click painted over the whole image – showed everyone how to do this in a YouTube from a long time ago called How to Paint with a Texture Brush on Your Image but it still works. Instead of a small size, it was set to 4500 pixels and used French Kiss’s texture Solstice Puissance to make the brush (can’t find a link). This layer was set to Difference blend mode at 71% layer opacity. Thought this example would show a different way of using some of the same techniques used in my longer blog……Digital Lady Syd
