#i'm gonna start this tag to file the other photoshop asks i've answered lol

[hyporheicflow]

Hey do you have a list of brushes you use for fabrics? They all look absolutely stunning!

aw thank you!! i am actually probably the worst person to ask for this, because i really only ever use two brushes. i work on Photoshop & learned the program for file manipulation way before i ever tried to paint with it, so my approach to painting textiles is much more focused on that. these are the two brushes i use, at various sizes and/or angles:

(when it says the chalk brush is 'modified' it's talking about the squeeze i put on it to flatten it out. i use that chisel brush for literally all my coloring and shading, and the soft round is used for special effects like ombré on textiles and when i'm adding dimension to skin)

if you're interested in how i put the patterns and textures onto my drawings i added more images below the cut :^) i have a lot of fun with it and i think it's pretty user-friendly for people that don't have great tablets or any kind of pen pressure sensitivity (like me lol):

most of my pattern files are from modified stock prints and as i use them they look like this:

i isolate a repeat from the larger file and reduce it to black and white pixels. for ones taken directly from pictures of textiles that can look like this as well:

or i'll take textures and use them as overlays:

i add the patterns in using layer masks after i've blocked in my colors. before assigning the patterns colors my files look like this:

then i use the magic wand tool to select either the white or black pixels and fill the colors i actually want in on a new layer. the 'matrix' layer will either be deleted or kept unseen.

from there i have two main stylistic additions i like to do—if the textile is supposed to have a depth or pile to it, i'll add a drop shadow layer effect to simulate that depth:

or for textiles that i want to look more complex or embroidered, i will add an additional 'stroke' layer in an accent color, usually one that references the metal tones i use in the rest of the drawing:

in this case i used a darker blue to make the pattern have a clearer contrast!

but yeah basically it's not at all about brushes lol! if there's a specific pattern or image you're interested in making into a pattern file i would be happy 2 run down how i make those if you'd like :^)