Day 4 of Horrordailies and I'm still mostly sticking to the scary theme. Amazing. This may be the longest I've ever followed any directions.
Today I went with this tutorial to make a Halloween background. Most of what was covered I already knew how to do, but I did have to take a detour to figure out how to make an animated brush. (There are four bat brushes; the animated brush cycles through them so you don't have to selected each one manually.)
In fact, the majority of this is done with custom brushes (the bats, the grunge marks on the paper), which is great, but the brushes aren't licensed for commercial use, so... I definitely appreciate artists making stuff like this available, but I also need to be careful not to use these on a book cover.
Anyhow, here we are:
Bats brushes by =Kencho on deviantART
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I am currently on page 77 of a 381 page manuscript that I need to read and critique by Thursday. Clearly I need to get my butt in gear.
3 comments:
The grunge probably isn't even necessary. Although for me, horror is...well, I lean very cozy with it. I like bats and think they are cute, not horror. I appreciate the various techniques you show. I still have a very, very old copy of photoshop and AI that I am able to run. When that gives out (the machine it's on) I'll be using Gimp. I've tried it out a few times. It's a great program, but as with all of them, the learning curve gives me nightmares.
I like GIMP for everything except typography, probably because I started on it — using actual Photoshop feels awkward for me. Have you tried Photopea (https://www.photopea.com/)? The GUI is similar to Photoshop and it runs in your browser.
I really should learn how to use Affinity Photo since I own it, but at this point I find GIMP easier.
No, Gimp is the only one I tried and it was years ago. I don't love any of them. They all have a high learning curve and generally speaking, more features than I will ever actually need or use. I don't like typography at all. I'm very weak at choosing good fonts and manipulating them accordingly. I certainly have plenty to choose from and I've even bought a few favorites from artists. Fairy Bite uses a font I purchased. I can't remember at the moment if it's Samantha...or a different font. I was quite caught up in fonts for a while. Rabbit hole!
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