In today’s tutorial I have some tips and techniques to share for creating texture resources in Photoshop and Illustrator. Rather than being a guide with a particular final result, this video will instead show you how to make custom assets that you can use as tools to produce awesome artwork, or even sell them as premium design resources on sites such as Creative Market.
Access All Areas members have a great collection of super grunge textures to download this week, courtesy of Shapeshift. These Super Grunge textures are taken from the dirtiest and grimiest surfaces to help you distress your digital designs to the max with stains, patterns and scratches. Each texture comes as a large 5000x3333px, 300ppi file in dark, light and transparent variants to cover the widest possible uses within your artwork. Use them as backgrounds to your designs, overlay them on top of your artwork, or apply them to layer masks.
Access All Areas members have a tremendous collection of tileable texture patterns for Adobe Illustrator to download this week, courtesy of Jeremy Child from The Artifex Forge. Every one of these 18 textures has been sourced from unusual materials and painstakingly converted into a seamlessly repeating pattern you can use to flood areas of your designs with just the click of a button. These pattern textures are perfect for adding instant interest, depth and detail to your projects. You’ll find classic textures such as rust, paint and wood as well as some more unusual ones like marble and hessian.
Use my grainy vignettes to add gritty effects to your artwork. These 10 textures feature heavy speckling that gradually advances from the edges to produce a dirty vignette effect that helps you focus attention on design elements within the centre of the composition. Each image comes as a high resolution 3000x2121px PNG file with transparency, so you can quickly and easily overlay the textures onto your artwork.
This week Access All Areas members have a fantastic set of quick and easy to use textures to download, courtesy of Brent Galloway. This collection of rolled ink textures contains 20 high resolution graphics made by hand with a rubber roller and ink. Use them to add that worn look to your t-shirt designs, lettering pieces, photos, or any type of design you’re working on. They come in a multitude of formats, including 1200dpi TIFF images, 300ppi PNG files with transparency, and 5000px Photoshop Brushes.
I’ve put more time into this new collection of texture resources than ever before, but I’m happy to give them away to my readers for free! I’ve been busy painting, scrunching and distressing pieces of fabric to produce a range of surface textures that mimic the appearance of old aged t-shirts with faded prints. These 9 digital textures help you to transform your clean artwork into retro style graphics with realistic distressing where the ink has flaked away from being washed and worn over many years.