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This week, Access All Areas members have a new premium resource to download for Adobe Illustrator. These brilliant Wood Grain Brushes by The Artifex Forge help you add depth and texture to your illustrations with realistic wooden effects. They can be applied directly to vector paths or painted with Illustrator’s brush tool, so the colour and width can be adjusted as required. The pack comes with 13 wood grain Art Brushes and 5 cross-section style Scatter Brushes to produce tree ring effects, making it the perfect resource for creating outdoors themed designs and illustrations.
I have a brilliant collection of useful resources for my Access All Areas members today, courtesy of my friend Tom Chalky. This pack of 20 assorted paint textures come as high resolution PNG scans and Photoshop Brush format. They were made with ample amounts of paper, black acrylic paint, watercolor palettes, brushes, sponges, and a whole 7 days of creating, scanning and preparing this collection of beautifully detailed textures. The variety in style makes this collection a great all-in-one kit, there’s brilliant textures for use as backgrounds, detailed speckles that are perfect for weathering your artwork, and whispy edges that produce the best grunge effects.
This week’s premium design resource for Access All Areas members is courtesy of designer and letterer David Larusso. It’s a collection of 30 subtle halftone Photoshop brushes to give your work a used, retro or distressed look. Apply the brushes to create a subtly textured background for your designs, or with the use of a Layer Mask to erode your artwork to achieve the popular aged style.
Access All Areas members can now download a brand new resource as part of their membership. Jeremy Child from The Artifex Forge has kindly donated his set of 30 hand rolled ink brushes for Illustrator. They add messy realism to your designs and are ideal for line art, text, borders, backgrounds and for texturing designs and illustrations. Being Illustrator Brushes means they’re 100% vector too, so you can use them in all your projects no matter how large!
I’ve been admiring some beautiful illustrations and examining the techniques the artists use to add details to their work. One popular shading method I’ve noticed is particularly prominent in apparel design and illustrations with a retro vibe is the use of stippling, where fine vector textures are added to build up tones and shade in areas of darkness. After seeing how effective this technique is, I created my own set of Illustrator scatter brushes to provide myself and my readers the tools required to create this effect. Download this pack of 8 stipple shading brushes to easily paint grungy details onto your artwork with Illustrator’s brush tool.
I recently received an email from a reader who asked for advice on how to create ropes and knots in Illustrator, which are particularly common with nautical themed designs. A custom Illustrator brush immediately sprung to mind, so I played around and perfected a technique that can be used to make any path look like a twisted, knotted and entangled length of rope.
