From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

864 Using oil brushes in Adobe Fresco

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

864 Using oil brushes in Adobe Fresco

- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at the other kind of live brushes available to you inside Adobe Fresco, and those are oil paints. And just as with water colors, oils mix with other colors inside of a layer. The difference is that they can convey texture as well. All right, so again, Adobe Fresco here on an iPad Pro. I'm going to tap and hold on the third icon, which is the second tool on the left side of the screen, in order to bring up my live brushes, and then I'll tap on watercolor so that I can switch back to all of the brushes, and this time I'll tap on oil. And notice if you drag the brushes, you'll see that there's a bunch available to you. I'm going to select oil paint glaze, just by way of demonstration, but you can go with any brush you like. All right, now I'll drop down to the attributes here. I'll tap on the color and let's go with a shade of yellow just so that we have a fair amount of contrast, and I'm also going to increase the brightness so that we have a nice, bright yellow. And then I'll tap on the size, so it's currently set to 130, which may work just fine, although, you know what? I think I'll take it up by tapping and holding in order to bring up that keypad, and I'll just dial in 200, let's say, and then I'll tap on the flow icon. And you can see that we've got a flow value of 60, which is pretty high. Remember, that controls the opacity of the dollops of paint that are laid down in order to create a brushstroke. So, the higher the value, the more dense the brushstroke. And then we've got this guy right here, this swirl, which determines the paint mix. Now if I crank the paint mix value up very high, like so, and then I go ahead and paint on this layer, notice it's the second to bottom layer that's selected, over there on the right hand side of the screen. So this is that layer of watercolor that I created in a previous movie, which is exactly what I want. That way we will get a kind of blend going. If for some reason you want to protect that layer, just in case you make any mistakes, then you would tap on the ellipses icon, over there on the right hand side of the screen, and select duplicate layer right here. But I'm not going to bother because that makes the image file very large, and that's because Fresco saves live brush layers as smart objects, for what that's worth. And so I'll just go ahead and tap off to dismiss that menu, and now I'll paint a big brushstroke like so. And as you can see, we're getting an awful lot of blending, and you can see that we have some texture as well. And you're going to get different forms of texture depending on which oil brush you select. But I want you to see how quickly that yellow paint goes away, and that's because we have a very high paint mix value. If I were to take the value down and paint another brushstroke like so, notice that we get more yellow out of our brushstroke. And then the final option that's available to you is to tap and hold on that touch shortcut ring right there, which will get rid of the pigment. And so notice when I tap and hold and brush, that I'm seeing the words dry brush in the top right corner of the screen, which is telling me that this is a brush that has no pigment inside of it. And so what I'm doing is I'm smearing the orange paint from the bottom of the image up into the purples at the top. If I wanted to work the other way, I would just brush in the other direction, like so. All right, now I don't want any of those brushstrokes, so I'm just going to go ahead and undo by tapping the undo icon a bunch of times, up here in the top right region of the screen. And then I'll zoom out. All right, so what I really want to do is create some trails in the sky so it looks like there's asteroids or some sort of attacking army or something along those lines. And so I'll go ahead and do a quick two-finger pinch in order to center my artwork, and then I'm going to tap on the color icon and I'm going to change it to white, just by tapping in that white circle right there, and then I'll tap on the size value. It'll take it down to something quite a bit smaller. Let's try 30 and see how that works. And then I'll tap on the paint mix option and I'll take it up a little bit. Notice that it's 27, we'll see how that works. And now I'll just go ahead and paint in the kind of squiggly line, and that is too much mixing, so I'll go ahead and tap on the paint mix option once again and take it down quite low. See how that works. And I'll go ahead and paint in another line. That is too small, so I'm going to increase the size of my brush, like so, and let's see how that looks. Now some of these lines are going to appear in back of the robot, which is okay, but I want them to just kind of squiggle, like so. So I'll just go ahead and drag all over the place here in order to create these rushing lines. And I might just go ahead and repaint over this guy, as well as this guy right here, just so that we have a little bit of variety and go ahead and paint over there. I don't want my layers panel in the way here, so I'll tap the layers icon in the top right corner of the screen in order to dismiss it, and I'll just go ahead and paint in a few more of these. And then, what you might want to do, in order to kind of smear things together is tap and hold on that touch shortcut ring right there and then just go ahead and paint over those brushstrokes once again. You could even try a bigger brush, so I'll just go ahead and increase the brush size to 141, let's say, and I'll just go ahead, paint over a couple of these guys, like so, in order to smear them. And you can try smearing the other direction if you want, and see how that works for you. So I'll go ahead and paint back and forth in order to add a few streaks to the sky. And now this way, if I miss one of the actual asteroids that I've painted in here, then I'll go ahead and add a different kind of smear mark, as we're seeing right here. So in other words, I'm smearing the watercolors instead of those new white brushstrokes. All right, I think that will do. And that, for better or for worst, is how you work with live brushes in the form of oils here inside Adobe Fresco.

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