From the course: Pixel Playground
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Creating a custom brush to draw hair
What I want to do this week is show you a little trick that I came up with a long time ago for a brush. A very specialized brush that's going to create an effect. Now on the screen right now we see this two page spread, that I created for Wired magazine many, many years ago. I want to draw particular attention to right here, the upper right And let's go and see just that what particular set of layers right there and its a mink as you see I call it mink its a mink coat. Let's get in real close and we see that there it is and basically its just a brush. A brush very similar to another brush I created many years ago which incorporated into the program, which is this one right here, one I call a little grass brush which allows you to create little fields of grass. But in this particular case, it's fur, so it's a longer strand. Now, in my Time Square series I talk about creating hair, but this is a little different. This is a little different. It's fur. Has a different kind of a texture…
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