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Brush and surface interaction
From the course: Learning Digital Painting
Brush and surface interaction
Texture is a quality of any surface. Surface texture can be random, patterned, or non-existent. Some textures have become intertwined with expressive painting, canvas in particular. Rough textures provide a gritty, raw quality. Digital paint has no physical surface to interact with, so it must be synthesized. This addition is another component of the brush engine. Now, texture in most apps is generally represented as a grayscale, seamless tile. And the white to black represents the luminance values that are going to be used within that texture. And just to give you a sample, this is a canvas texture. And I'm going to paint with it. And you'll see, as I start to use my pressure, the harder I press, the more and more I work down into the grain until at full pressure I'm fully filling up that grain. You can almost think of it like a little mini mountain range. So, when I'm just skipping along the top of the grain, it's only the spots where, on a mountain range, you'd find snow. And as I…
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