Good Sticker Sprays to download and use for Watercolor Effects
Hey Caeser,
Thanks for checking it out!! :)
The Airbrush Splats (which I didn't use in this pic, but did in the some of the tree ones one the last page) is part of Artrage 3-- they're Sticker Sprays and are in the Art Brushes group at the top of the list.
Juz's Grunge Stickers are a Sticker Spray set that Juz made. Triangular Chaos is one of a set. I don't use the others much, but I use Triangular Chaos a lot for very soft ambient color noise. Set the Luminance and Hue dials under Random to 10-20% in the Spray Variations chart, and you'll get good results. You can see some of this in the greens I've laid in on the blue/black chicken,the green I lay in to the orange chicken to the far right, or some of the softer greens in the tree, etc. I often make a new layer, blow the brush up really big to 500%, dust the color in pretty lightly with it, gently erase around the object, and collapse the layer down. I don't build value much with it, but I use it at the end of the process to add good textures and ambient color. What it seems to do is emulate the effect of dabbing a color into a wet area-- there's a soft kind of "veination" to the spray, as it doesn't have a hard edge. Just play with it on its own first, and you'll see what it actually does individually. Then try laying down one color with a watercolor brush, then lightly painting a different "highlight" or "shadow" color over the top of it with the Triangular Chaos, and you'll see what I'm talking about. Here's the link to the brushes-- http://www2.ambientdesign.com/forums...ercolor-effect
The other one I use a lot is Someonesane's Sponge Stickers. He made a "flat" set for me here, and its wonderful for watercolor work. I did the whole tree canopy with this sticker, with the Hue and Luminance dials altered again. Then I went over it with the Triangular Chaos brush.
Hope that's helpful! I'll try and upload a Tutorial #3 here next week, and go over some of this more systematically.
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I want to include a link to the Neil Brushes set here, with the various Superfuzz brushes. These are another great set of sponge-like stamps to use. Neil provided these a few years back, before the more easily downloadable sets were created by Artrage, for ease of sharing. So, you'll need to learn where to place your stamps, and where to place your presets. If you feel up to it, you should try them.