For this project, you’ll be creating your own handmade textures and later applying them on your illustration.

To make the textures you’ll need:

A regular A4 printing paper, it’s good to have a lot of it
Some black paint, whatever paint you have at home will be fine ( it can be gouache, ink, tempera, acrylic, also, charcoal, pastels, pencils, etc)
Something to create those textures. So, here is where you can go crazy and curious and search your house to find some everyday objects that can create textures… options are endless. The more interesting objects you find the more unique textures you’ll get.

For preparing and using those textures you’ll need:

A scanner which is the best option or you can use your digital camera or a phone
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

I know that you can find already made textures online and download them, but it’s so much more rewarding when you do it by yourself, and having your own original textures will just help you level up your creativity and the quality of your artwork.

Also, once you learn how to do it, you’ll easily create custom textures for your illustrations whenever you need them.

RESOURCES

In the class resources, you’ll find my handmade textures that you can use to practice and test out this process.
For those of you that like to follow along to practice, I also added my prepared digital illustration of a teapot in the class resources. Feel free to use it to learn.
To complete your own digital illustration and see my process of converting sketches into vectors in a few simple steps head to my other Skillshare class: From Sketch to Vector: Digitize Your Sketches Using The Shape Builder Tool in Adobe Illustrator

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I’m looking forward to seeing your projects!

Love,

Di Ujdi

Tu Khanh Le

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