Week 3

Week 3- Making and using brushes


After spending a few hours painting various patterns, texture and limbs with black ink. I scanned them in on the copier to my memory stick. Only to find I hadn't pre-set the image to save as a jpeg and saved them as pdfs! It is taking me a little time to get the hang of remembering the basics. But I am getting there.


The first part of the brief was to create new brushes and make a brush test sheet. I did this by using the selection tool to pick an area I wanted to use then clicking onto brush preset and naming the new brush. I picked this up easily and quickly created a number of different brushes for the sheet.

I then moved onto the second part of the brief, which was to create animal images out of the brushes. I thoroughly enjoyed this and began to realise how much use Photoshop could be to illustrators, including saving lots of time and fiddling about.

I considered my brushes and thought of what type of animals would suit them. I chose a Sheep, a Snake, a Horse, an Octopus and a Peacock. Using the different options available such as increasing and decreasing the spacing of the brush size, orientation, and colour, I experimented until I was happy. I quickly began to produce a variety of images.  Using the eye shaped brush in different colours has worked well to create the feathers, head and wings of the Peacock. By changing the distance between the brushstrokes. I made large and small size spotted and striped markings to draw the Horse and Sheep. I think that this has given them a slightly 3d effect. I tried to add depth to the Octopus and Snake pictures by using more colour and multiple brushes. I am extremely happy with my results.

I feel as though I am picking up Photoshop much quicker now. But I must remember to start pictures on a new layer not the background sheet. I also still forgot to do some basic things regularly like saving the document or how to save the file for web use. 


I did however remember to take a few screenshots of my processes and the work I had produced.