We’re back with another good tutorial for “Back to Design School” month, and this time we’re with Santosh Kashyap from TutorialBunch.com, and his tutorial on drawing a paint brush. It’s interesting because of some of the techniques you’ll be happy you learned.
We’re back with another good tutorial for “Back to Design School” month, and this time we’re with Santosh Kashyap from TutorialBunch.com, and his tutorial on drawing a paint brush. It’s interesting because of some of the techniques you’ll be happy you learned.
Santosh writes:
Hi Friends — I have a very interesting tutorial — creating a paint brush using Adobe Photoshop — and you learn how to draw a beautiful paint brush. I have described the process step by step to learn and make it easily. You will learn more about layer style, Gradient and Pen Tool because these tools play an important part in this creation. I sure hope you like and enjoy this free tutorial.
Start with a new layer by go to Fine menu > New, set any size as you required. Select Pen Tool (P key) and make a shape of the paint brush handle by some anchor point with selected "bb9d77" foreground color.
In this step I am going to apply wood effect, take a new layer and fill "bb9d77" color and apply noise filter by following this path (Filter menu > Noise > Add Noise) then set Amount "28.33". After applyig the noise filter, apply a motion blur on same layer by following this path (Filter menu > Blur > Motion Blur) and make settings as seen above, right.
Still selected layer, go to blend mode and change "Normal" to " Overlay", above.
The wood effect is completed.
Now apply bevel effect on the handle, follow this path (Layer menu > Layer style > Bevel and Emboss) a Window come on the screen and adjust all these settings as given at right.
After applied bevel style on the handle, follow this path (Layer menu > Layer Style > Stroke) and make same settings with changed color as here.
The brush’s handle should be same.
NEXT: Use Photoshop’s filters for the metalic steel ferrule
Use Photoshop’s filters for the metalic steel ferrule
Now we’re going to draw steel cover on the handle, select Pen Tool (P key) and make a shape by anchor points then apply gradient color by following this path (Layer menu > Layer style > Gradient Overlay). a window come on the screen, clicks on the gradient and apply different color by new sliders as done below.
The steel color is completed.
Now, make ribs and details on the metal “ferrule” of the paint brush.
Select Line Tool (U key) and draw line on the steel cover but make sure the line should not be out of cover.
Apply bevel on the line by following this path (Layer menu > Layer style > Bevel and Emboss) and apply all these settings as done in the below picture
Still selected line layer make two more duplicate line and set on the different position then draw three dot by the Ellipse Tool (U key) as below.
First set the foreground and background color, Select Pen Tool (P key) and draw any shape with "#c2b3a0" color as you want to brush in the size. Now apply Fiber filter by go to Filter menu > Render > Fiber and make adjustment.
Now apply Levels to make brush color dark and effective, follow this path (Image menu > Adjustment > Levels) and put values as done below.
Apply background and get final result.
Thanks to Santosh Kashyap from www.tutorialbunch.com for sending this in! All rights reserved by Santosh kumar
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