From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
846 Painting a Rorschach background
From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
846 Painting a Rorschach background
- [Deke] In this movie, we're going to create this kind of red Rorschach-style pattern in the background, complete with horizontal symmetry using what's known as the Watercolor Flat Brush inside Adobe Photoshop Sketch running on an iPad Pro. Now if you'd prefer to work inside some other application such as Photoshop proper, for example, then I'm providing you with an exercise file called Red jumpsuit.psd. All right, the first thing I'm going to do is escape to full screen mode by tapping on this icon in the top right corner of the screen, and then I'll tap the word Close in the top left corner of the screen in order to return to my project. And as you can see here, I've created a bunch of different versions of this file just so that I'm protected as I go along, and if you want to do the same thing, then notice this dot-dot-dot icon in the top right corner of the screen. Go ahead and tap on it right there, and then you want to tap Select Documents at the top of the menu. And now, I'll just go ahead and select this guy, let's say, which is the last one in the second row in case you can't quite see it. And then, go ahead and tap on the plus sign at the very bottom of the screen, right there, center bottom, in order to create a duplicate of that artwork. And then just go ahead and tap either the original or the duplicate to open it up like so. All right, now the first thing I'm going to do is create a new layer at the bottom of the stack, and because I'm left-handed, I have things flipped around, so I've got my layers on the left-hand side, and my brushes on the right side. By default, it's the other way around. And so I'll just go ahead and tap on the black layer down here at the bottom of the stack and then I'll create a new layer by tapping the plus sign up here at the top of the layer stack and I'll select Sketch Layer like so. And now I'll go ahead and rename this guy by tapping on this thumbnail, and you name a layer inside Sketch by tapping on the words Sketch Layer, and then you can enter a new name such as Red. All right, so we'll go ahead and tap that thumbnail once again to hide the panel, and now I'm going to select one of the lower brushes in the list over here on the right-hand side, again, for you, it might be on the left side, and it's this guy right here. I'll go ahead and tap on it in order to make it active so that we can see its settings, and then I'll tap the Settings icon down here at the bottom so that we can see that this guy is the Watercolor Flat Brush. All right, so I'll go ahead and hide that, and then I'll tap on the color in order to bring up my RGB values. If you're not seeing RGB, then you want to switch to Picker right there and then tap on this guy, RGB in my case, and by default, it's set to Wheel. We want RGB once again. So you can see that I've almost maxed out the red value there on the left, and I have a much lower green value, just 16, and then a blue value of zero so that we have a very vivid shade of red. All right, now I'm going to tap that icon in the top right corner of the screen in order to switch back to the full screen mode and I will go ahead and paint. Now I want you to see something. Notice as soon as I release, that the paint actually grows, and so that's something to bear in mind, which means that unless you want a very pronounced effect, you want to take it easy. So watch, I'll go ahead and paint down to this foot, this sort of star foot here, and as soon as I release, the paint grows outwards as if you're painting with a watercolor brush on a piece of wet canvas or paper. All right, so I'll go ahead and paint some more like so and I'll release to let it grow, and so I'm going to take it easy the whole time here, and I'll just go ahead and paint up into the scissors, let's say, and above the head over here on the right-hand side, and this is the head belonging to the shadow creature, Red, by the way. All right, now I'll just go ahead and paint on the inside areas. Now something to bear in mind, and I'm just going to tell you, I'm not going to show you, is that the paint will continue to behave as if it's wet. Notice as soon as I paint right here, it bleeds into the previous brush stroke. However, that's not going to be the case, at least the way things stand now if you undo. Anytime you undo, or switch to a different tool, the paint is going to dry, so that's just something to bear in mind. All right, so I'll just go ahead and paint down like so, and I'm going to bring back the interface by tapping that icon in the top right corner of the screen so that I can see what this layer looks like where its thumbnail is concerned over here in the bottom left corner is at least where it is for me. So notice the thumbnail for the red layer, bottom left corner once again. It's got some gaps in it, and I'd like to fill in those gaps so I'll just paint in some regions and then I'll look to make sure I got the gap, I did. Now I have a gap toward the top that's presumably behind the head and so I'll just go ahead and paint behind the head a little bit and that fills that in as well. Might just add a couple of little bits of paint here and there to fill things out. All right, now we want to duplicate this effect and flip it horizontally. And you do that by tapping on the thumbnail for that red layer, and that'll bring up this panel right here. Notice the third option down is Duplicate, so I'll go ahead and tap on that guy to create a duplicate of the layer and then I'll tap on the thumbnail again and this time I'll select Transform, so the very first option right there. And notice down here at the bottom, we're now seeing three different icons, including Flip Horizontal, so I'll go ahead and tap that guy and now I want to drag this guy over to the left like so. Now notice that I don't really have any constraints, so I'm just going to have to eyeball things, and what I want to do is move this boundary so that it's slightly off screen to the left here, and then I'll move it back. So we just want to make sure that we have a lot of room right here, and then, when you like what you see, just go ahead and tap the Done button in the top right corner of the screen. All right, now you want to zoom in and see if you've got any issues here, and so notice if I zoom in on Adelaide's head, that is the head of the person on the left, that I do have some brown leaking out of the head region, and so I'll go ahead and tap on the Faces layer, the thumbnail for the Faces layer, that is. Then, I'll tap on the Brush icon over here on the right in order to see all my brushes, I'll tap on the checkerboard pattern to select the eraser, and I'll just go ahead and erase some of this excess like so, so that we have a tighter effect, and I'll go ahead and paint down below as well and over here in the bottom right region of this sort of bean-shaped face. And now, I'll pinch my way over to Red, that is the shadow creature over here on the right-hand side and I've made a mistake here. I accidentally undid a brushstroke, and that's because it's very easy to do a two-finger drag which does undo inside Sketch, and if that happens to you, then tap on the Undo icon in the top right region of the screen, and then tap Redo right there, that second icon down until it dims, which shows you that you've redone everything that you can. All right, now, oops, I went ahead and switched tools there, that's no good, so this time I'll purposely undo by tapping on the Undo icon there, and they'll switch back to the Eraser tool, so somehow I switched away from the eraser there, and now I'll go ahead and paint this stuff away up here above the head over here on the right-hand side. And then I'll just deliberately two-finger pinch to make sure I don't undo and I'll go ahead and paint away some more like so. All right, now this is looking pretty good, but I want the mouths to be black, and so I'm going to create a new layer by tapping on the red layer, the top of the two red layers, that is, and I'll create a new layer on top of it by tapping on the plus icon at the top of the layer stack and I'll select Sketch layer, and then I'll go ahead and tap on this blank thumbnail, and I'll tap on Sketch layer, and I'll go ahead and name this guy Mouths, and tap the Done button, and then I'll tap the thumbnail once again in order to hide that panel. I'll go ahead and zoom in on this mouth right here, and I'm going to switch to the second brush down and just so you can see what that is, I'll tap on it a second time and I'll tap its settings icon, at which point you can see this is the ink pen. I do not want it to be pink, however, so I'll tap on the Color option, and I'll switch back to Wheel, and then I'll just go ahead and drag this Brightness slider all the way to the left so that we end up with black. All right, now I'll just go ahead and paint inside of the mouth, and this time around, I don't have to be very careful because there's a bunch of layers in front of it. And now, I'll go ahead and move over to this big droopy mouth right here; so scared. And I'll go ahead and paint it in. And then finally, I'll paint in the holes over here, make sure I didn't undo, I did undo, notice that, didn't want to undo, so I'll tap on the Undo icon, well actually tap and hold on it, and I'll tap the Redo icon right there until it dims so I get everything back, and now I will much more deliberately two-finger pinch until I'm seeing the scissors. Notice these guys, and I'll paint inside of the handle like so. All right, now I'll do a quick two-finger pinch, just so that we can see the entire artwork, and I'll tap the double arrow icon in the top right corner of the screen in order to hide the interface. And that is how you paint a kind of symmetrical Rorschach-style background of Halloween blood in Adobe Photoshop Sketch!
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Contents
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767 Mandala patterns in Photoshop CC 20191m
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768 Painting a free-form mandala pattern9m 5s
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769 Painting mandala-style dot patterns6m 56s
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770 Coloring your mandala pattern7m 48s
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771 The final full-color mandala6m 27s
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772 Illustrator CC 2019 new preview mode1m 1s
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773 Illustrator CC 2019 presentation mode3m 21s
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774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 20196m 30s
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775 Applying a global edit from the control panel4m 8s
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776 Freeform gradients in Illustrator CC 20198m 29s
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777 Freeform gradients: Points versus lines8m 10s
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778 Freeform gradient limitations6m 29s
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779 Crop and develop a great white shark8m 54s
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780 Sharpening your great white shark6m 11s
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781 Low vibrance and high saturation9m 3s
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782 Vibrance, saturation, and sharpness9m 11s
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783 Actioning a full-color hedcut in Photoshop1m
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784 Recording an action to play all actions9m 37s
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785 Draw something, color the outlines8m 46s
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786 Combining multiple works of line art7m 3s
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787 Group your line art, clip to the group4m 9s
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788 Coloring outside your line art in Photoshop6m 32s
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789 Flip horizontal view in Photoshop CC 20191m
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790 Creating a White Walker in Photoshop1m 59s
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791 The White Walker begins9m 25s
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792 Giving a guy a digital shave in Photoshop3m 58s
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793 Carving deep wrinkles or scars into skin8m 37s
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794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows6m 21s
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795 Creating pale, lifeless lips in Photoshop5m 57s
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796 Giving your White Walker glowing blue eyes10m 46s
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797 Adding some creepy lifeless pupils6m 40s
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798 Adding a cold and gloomy background12m 18s
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799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes6m 25s
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800 Using the Transparency Shapes Layer option5m 29s
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801 Combining a radial filter with a range mask8m 35s
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802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw6m 20s
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803 An actual dream effect, in Photoshop14m 37s
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804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream8m 45s
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805 Applying distortions as Smart Filters6m 37s
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806 Combining distortions with blend modes10m 5s
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807 Drawing a 24-sided star in negative space12m 48s
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808 Making your star a repeating hex pattern8m 27s
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809 Shading your star pattern in Illustrator6m 57s
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810 Creating a gradient pattern in Illustrator4m 31s
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811 Making one pattern fade into another6m 23s
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812 Welcome to my seamlessly repeating summer1m 35s
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813 Drawing a cubical gobstopper in Illustrator14m 55s
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814 Creating a pattern of gobstoppers7m 23s
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815 Aligning your many gobstoppers5m 54s
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816 Blending line textures in Illustrator12m 58s
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817 Combining object blends with a pattern8m 40s
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818 Carving cubical holes into cubical objects9m 52s
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819 Nesting gradients inside a pattern5m 36s
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820 Drawing 3D isometric arrows in Illustrator7m 33s
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821 Positioning the tips of your arrows7m 17s
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822 Filling in the gaps in a repeating pattern8m 50s
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823 Drawing cartoon teeth aligned to the hair5m 50s
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824 Drawing a triangular cartoon eye8m 6s
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825 Adding windows to the houses pattern10m 46s
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826 Creating a perfectly tessellating pattern4m 32s
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827 Op art experiment 4: Triangle tunnels6m 58s
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828 Expressing your triangles as a hex pattern7m 18s
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829 Adding color to your triangle tunnels7m 55s
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830 Recoloring your triangle tunnels3m 20s
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831 Creating rainbow gradients with blends6m 18s
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832 The downside of using blends in patterns3m 35s
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833 Drawing an impossible trident in Illustrator9m 49s
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834 Shading an impossible trident with gradients4m 3s
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835 Painting paths with opposing gradients13m 51s
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836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator6m 42s
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837 Drawing an impossible hex object14m 8s
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838 Creating impossible latticework5m 46s
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839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch9m 46s
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840 Painting a watercolor wash background8m 23s
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841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró4m 17s
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842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop9m 1s
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843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size11m 5s
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844 What if Joan Miró had met Jordan Peele?14m 10s
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845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene11m 47s
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846 Painting a Rorschach background9m 22s
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848 What to do when Content-Aware Fill fails?10m 4s
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847 Finishing your “Us” artwork in Photoshop10m 35s
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849 Hand turkey 20191m 56s
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850 Tracing your actual hand on an iPad10m 6s
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851 Drawing a highly articulated hand9m 50s
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852 Adding color to your hand-drawn hand12m 33s
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853 Painting your hand-drawn fingernails9m 3s
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854 A hand becomes a Thanksgiving hand turkey9m 6s
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855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers13m 30s
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856 What’s wrong with this drop shadow?11m 14s
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857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad13m 6s
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858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 29m 13s
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859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 310m 17s
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