Fire escape

“Fire escape ” by Daarken
For the final stages I add in the lower railing on the fire escape as well as adding in the windows on the shadow side. I also fixed some errors on the top railing of the fire escape. One thing that people run into a lot of times is that they feel like their illustration just feels too “digital.” This can especially happen if you are just using normal round brushes and not any custom textured brushes. One way to add some texture to your painting is by taking pictures and overlaying them on top of your illustration.

I got these textures from www.environment-textures.com. They have thousands of great textures that you can use in your illustrations, or even just look at for reference.

After you find the texture you want to use, desaturate it by hitting ctrl+u and then dragging the saturation bar down all the way to the left.

The reason that you want to desaturate the texture is because you are probably only wanting the texture in your image, and not the color as well. Take your texture and copy/paste it into a new layer in your illustration. Now you can set that layer to “overlay” and lower the opacity down.

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