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Hello and welcome to Texturing Motifs for Illustration and Surface Pattern Design. In this class I’ll be sharing my process of combining real textures with digital techniques.
Creating textures begins with layering traditional media on paper. It’s a lot of fun and easy to do. Textures and shapes can then be brought together digitally to create eye-catching motifs. With this technique it’s possible to achieve a paper cutout style, or alternatively add form through shading and detail. Textures can be layered to achieve rich effects, and it’s easy to reposition them in the design.
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I’ve chosen strawberries for my motif demonstrations, but the techniques can be applied to any subject. Textured motifs can be used as stand-alone icons, in patterns or as part of illustrations.
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Items needed for the project are paper and colouring media of your choice, plus a device with design app that has clipping mask capability, for example Procreate® or Adobe Photoshop®. There are demonstrations using these during the class. This is an intermediate level class, but the key steps are relatively simple so beginners should also be able to follow along.
OK, if you’re excited about texturing motifs, let’s get started!
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Project & Materials

Process & Advantages

Creating Textures

Creating Shapes (paper method)

Digitizing & Resolution

Clipping Masks - Photoshop Desktop

Blending & Details - Photoshop Desktop

Clipping Masks - Photoshop iPad

Blending & Details - Photoshop iPad

Clipping Masks - Procreate iPad

Blending & Details - Procreate iPad

Finalising Motifs & Exporting

BONUS: Repeat Pattern

BONUS: Illustration Tips

Your Project

Thank you

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Resolution-Explained.pdf

Smart-Object-Basics.pdf

Textured Strawberries (example project)

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