Thank you so much for: a) Not using obnoxious music b) Giving a short summary of the process c) Sharing such a variety of textures Have a like and subscribe and if you come back to doing this I would love to see how you would paint flowing water (e.g. a stream) :)
I love that the intro is a quick overview of what you'll be covering, I've gone through so many lengthy tutorials that end up not actually showing what I'm looking for. The tutorial itself is really great, 30 mins well spent, I hope you upload more!
Just found your tutorials, with 0 training in drawing I created my first decent texture! Dude you are really awesome. Thank you for these tutorials you are a legend.
Been recommended your tutorials by our awesome guildies at the Handpainters Guild. I have to say .. the explanation and music on your tutorials are on point! thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, Kairosmith!
Thank you so much, the video was really useful, it is not only helped to make this effect, but also opened up new functions and capabilities of Photoshop for me!
Ah fantastic, I’m glad to hear it was useful!! In case it’s helpful, I should also mention that the latest edition of Photoshop 2021 has a new feature that allows automatic tiling (From the top menu bar, select View -> Pattern Preview). I’m super excited that they finally included that, and I will definitely talk about Pattern Preview in future videos!
@@Kairosmith Oh thank you for a advice, i'll check this later! Actually i have a 2015 version of Photoshop, but I think I will update it, you intrigued me)
@@Kairosmith You really give off that vibe with the music and stuff it's so chill to watch even for another person who isn't interested in this, you deserve so much more! this is really some quality content, keep it up man :)))
I didn't notice when I first watched but do you shade over the lines on purpose, I left mine in and wasn't sure how to make them look better. I'm not sure why but the pallet you used is perfect for this style of texture all the colors I choose don't even come close.
Yep, so unless I'm going for a comic book style, I like to blend over any linework from when I'm planning out the texture. Lines show us when there's a change in lighting or the edge of a surface, so as long as you keep your values (the change from lighter to darker colors), blending over the lines with the surrounding colors can help it be more painterly. For colors, its hard to give color advice without seeing yours, but a general rule of thumb is to avoid black and white. If you use colors that are too close to either of those extremes, then there isn't anywhere for you to go if you need to put in highlights or shadows. Even materials we consider to be black, like obsidian or coal, might be better painted with some dark blues and purples.
@@Kairosmith thanks for the info. for the colors I just chose a few greys to work with but they didn't have the look I wanted, and thought maybe I was doing something wrong then I eye dropped your pallet and favored the results way more. I think what was happening is I was choosing unsaturated dull colors.
I use a pen tablet for these (specifically, this was done with a Medium Wacom Intuos!). Its possible to do it with a mouse, but it would be much harder and not very intuitive. Especially if you're going to do more digital art in the future, I'd recommend investing in some sort of tablet - even the more affordable drawing tablets will make things easier for you. :)
@@kianh.76 I do recommend the Wacom Intuos Medium! Mine has lasted me 10 years, and I think the medium size is perfect; not too big on the desk and able to fit into a backpack, and still has a nice amount of space to draw on.
i dont understand what brush you using, your using the same color but when you draw some of the strokes are clearer/darker/lighter than the others, how? what is that brush?
Hi! Sorry for the confusion - it’s sped up, but what I’m doing here is just using the normal round brush and manually selecting lighter/darker colors from the painting itself (or the color panel) by using the color picker. I don’t know if it’s the default setting, but I have the hot key for the color picker set to alt-click so I can do it quicker.
Besides manually picking the color, another solution you could play with is creating your own brush that varies the brightness of each stroke. Go to Window > Brush Settings > Color Dynamics and tweak the Brightness Jitter settings to get some variant per stroke.
Fantastic tutorial, I have it bookmarked and keep referring to it for making a tiling stone texture like this. I do believe you could additionally push it further with adding onto your pipeline. You could create a high-poly first in zbrush, export that out and import it into Photoshop and paint directly on either the UVs or the 2d texture like you are here. I think that Photoshop's 3d viewer can even load normal maps, so you could simply import the low-poly and set up the normals via their material editor. If it didn't lag, I assume it'd just be better to load the high-poly although haha.
Hey thanks Graham!! I've been planning to incorporate some sculpts into my textures for a while; I've got other 3D applications like Maya and 3DCoat down, but Zbrush has been a bit rough on me haha. I should look into Photoshop's 3D capabilities more...in any case, sounds like Zbrush would definitely speed up the process. Advice appreciated!
Hey lemondrop! Sorry, must've gotten a bit buried in the other info in the vid. Watch around 3:10; basically, you want to Filter -> Offset the image as you're painting to make sure you paint over the edges so they match up! I've found it's helpful to do this throughout your workflow so you can keep checking the alignment.
I'm glad they're helpful for you! What kind of terrain tutorials are you thinking? More of these types of tiling textures but in World of Warcraft style (grass/sand/etc.), or tutorials on how to texture 3D models...?
Gaia Tree Yes it's been a while! Work keeps me busy, but I should have a less busy March this year since the Game Developer's Conference has been postponed. I might be able to get something started for you!
Nice tutorial, I wish I could easily do this in procreate on the ipad. Photoshop is too hardcore for my little hobby (drawing dungeons for d&d on a low and simple level).
Thanks! Ahh yeah, I've seen at least one forum post out there asking Procreate to implement some sort of offset or repeating feature. Seems like they still don't have plans to tackle that feature, but that would be pretty cool to have on an iPad and I do love seeing more D&D dungeons!
Hi! Thank you sososo much for posting these tutorials. Theyre fantastic and soooo helpful. I know you havent posted in a while, but if you ever post tutorials again could you do one on grass texture?
Thanks for the kind words Sofia! Honestly, with the current epidemic situation right now, there's never been a better time to crank out some tutorials. Adding it to the list. :)
Sofia Lafitte That’s very considerate of you; we’ll get through this! Honestly, the encouragement and positivity from people like you is making me more excited about getting back to TH-cam. I just created a grass texture tutorial if you’d like to check it out: th-cam.com/video/fWS35BLWUqE/w-d-xo.html
Hey Ultra T! Good question; my first textures were done out of necessity for my game development classes. We needed textures, so I had to figure out what I was doing rather quickly. In terms of how to start, I would suggest making a set of goals. Long-term goals might be something like "I want to be able to make hand-painted textures like in World of Warcraft." Short-term goals might be what you're going to do this month, this week, or today, such as "This month I will focus on learning everything I can about rocks," or "Today I will paint 5 rocks." Especially if you haven't done much drawing lately or don't have your own style yet, know that it is perfectly okay to try to replicate or copy photographs or what other artists have done. We call these master studies. Of course, you should make sure that if you post your studies online anywhere, you label them as such and attribute the original artist! But even though they might not be your unique pieces, you can learn SO MUCH from doing them. I hope those tips are helpful!
Hi, thanks for your interest! I don't have a course at the moment, though if I ever create any paid content in addition to these tutorials, I'll be sure to make a post about it!
hi can you criticize what i made, i uploaded a video on my channel of one of the rocks i finished, if you could tell me whats wrong with it and what i could do better it would be awesome. thank you if you do and even if not this tutorial helped me alot thank you.
Sorry Little Bunny! Trying to find a balance between showing everything and keeping the video length down. I'm still perfecting the tutorial-making process, so thanks for the input.
Thank you so much for:
a) Not using obnoxious music
b) Giving a short summary of the process
c) Sharing such a variety of textures
Have a like and subscribe and if you come back to doing this I would love to see how you would paint flowing water (e.g. a stream) :)
I love that the intro is a quick overview of what you'll be covering, I've gone through so many lengthy tutorials that end up not actually showing what I'm looking for.
The tutorial itself is really great, 30 mins well spent, I hope you upload more!
I'm a scenic artist and your tutorials are brilliant. They would totally apply for theatre depending on the style. I love it
Hey that's a really cool application for it! Thanks for the insight.
I'm subscribing based on the fact you started with a summary of the process, as well as a more in-depth breakdown. Good work.
Just found your tutorials, with 0 training in drawing I created my first decent texture! Dude you are really awesome. Thank you for these tutorials you are a legend.
Thanks, and that's awesome Darvath!! I'm glad you found them useful. :)
I've literally spent the whole day on TH-cam for something like this,thank you very much
Wow, I'm glad you found it! Best of luck with your texture-making! :D
Dude! I'm 58 seconds in the video and it already looks finished to me, thank you for the tutorial, just what i needed 😘
i love how you are offer a quick and a detailed version with voiceover... you've got my like & sub!
Thanks Samu!!
Been recommended your tutorials by our awesome guildies at the Handpainters Guild.
I have to say .. the explanation and music on your tutorials are on point! thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, Kairosmith!
Ah cheers, thanks for checking out the tutorials Andre!
Thank you so much, the video was really useful, it is not only helped to make this effect, but also opened up new functions and capabilities of Photoshop for me!
Ah fantastic, I’m glad to hear it was useful!! In case it’s helpful, I should also mention that the latest edition of Photoshop 2021 has a new feature that allows automatic tiling (From the top menu bar, select View -> Pattern Preview). I’m super excited that they finally included that, and I will definitely talk about Pattern Preview in future videos!
@@Kairosmith Oh thank you for a advice, i'll check this later! Actually i have a 2015 version of Photoshop, but I think I will update it, you intrigued me)
Great tutorial! Many thanks
your tutorials are better than some paid tutorials, nice work man :)
Thanks Shiro! Just trying to spread the knowledge!
holy god
you're the Bob Ross of this stuff omg
I LOVE THIS
Well thank you very much, and I’m happy to hear you enjoyed it! Being compared to that legend of a man is such high praise 😭🙏
@@Kairosmith You really give off that vibe with the music and stuff it's so chill to watch even for another person who isn't interested in this, you deserve so much more! this is really some quality content, keep it up man :)))
Awesome 🔥🔥🔥
I didn't notice when I first watched but do you shade over the lines on purpose, I left mine in and wasn't sure how to make them look better. I'm not sure why but the pallet you used is perfect for this style of texture all the colors I choose don't even come close.
Yep, so unless I'm going for a comic book style, I like to blend over any linework from when I'm planning out the texture. Lines show us when there's a change in lighting or the edge of a surface, so as long as you keep your values (the change from lighter to darker colors), blending over the lines with the surrounding colors can help it be more painterly.
For colors, its hard to give color advice without seeing yours, but a general rule of thumb is to avoid black and white. If you use colors that are too close to either of those extremes, then there isn't anywhere for you to go if you need to put in highlights or shadows. Even materials we consider to be black, like obsidian or coal, might be better painted with some dark blues and purples.
@@Kairosmith thanks for the info. for the colors I just chose a few greys to work with but they didn't have the look I wanted, and thought maybe I was doing something wrong then I eye dropped your pallet and favored the results way more. I think what was happening is I was choosing unsaturated dull colors.
@@XxCasualGamerxX Ah yeah that'll do it! Putting some color in there can go a long way :D
Do you use a mouse or a pen tablet with this stuff; would it be as easy using a mouse or possible to draw textures with just using a mouse or not?
I use a pen tablet for these (specifically, this was done with a Medium Wacom Intuos!). Its possible to do it with a mouse, but it would be much harder and not very intuitive. Especially if you're going to do more digital art in the future, I'd recommend investing in some sort of tablet - even the more affordable drawing tablets will make things easier for you. :)
@@Kairosmith I've been researching the Wacom Intuos and think those are the best, but do you have any recommendations?
@@kianh.76 I do recommend the Wacom Intuos Medium! Mine has lasted me 10 years, and I think the medium size is perfect; not too big on the desk and able to fit into a backpack, and still has a nice amount of space to draw on.
Dude you deserve more subscribers, I love your work.
You're a Legend. Awesome tutorial as always. I'm gonna eat each seconds haha.
i dont understand what brush you using, your using the same color but when you draw some of the strokes are clearer/darker/lighter than the others, how? what is that brush?
Hi! Sorry for the confusion - it’s sped up, but what I’m doing here is just using the normal round brush and manually selecting lighter/darker colors from the painting itself (or the color panel) by using the color picker. I don’t know if it’s the default setting, but I have the hot key for the color picker set to alt-click so I can do it quicker.
Besides manually picking the color, another solution you could play with is creating your own brush that varies the brightness of each stroke. Go to Window > Brush Settings > Color Dynamics and tweak the Brightness Jitter settings to get some variant per stroke.
Ok, thank you very much
OMG this helped so much more than it should have! Tysm!
DragonGirl Animations Awesome, glad to hear!!
Fantastic tutorial, I have it bookmarked and keep referring to it for making a tiling stone texture like this. I do believe you could additionally push it further with adding onto your pipeline. You could create a high-poly first in zbrush, export that out and import it into Photoshop and paint directly on either the UVs or the 2d texture like you are here. I think that Photoshop's 3d viewer can even load normal maps, so you could simply import the low-poly and set up the normals via their material editor. If it didn't lag, I assume it'd just be better to load the high-poly although haha.
Hey thanks Graham!! I've been planning to incorporate some sculpts into my textures for a while; I've got other 3D applications like Maya and 3DCoat down, but Zbrush has been a bit rough on me haha. I should look into Photoshop's 3D capabilities more...in any case, sounds like Zbrush would definitely speed up the process. Advice appreciated!
Very relaxing music ^.^
Question: how do you make sure if you are mainly just handpainting from scratch that the textured is tileable?
Hey lemondrop! Sorry, must've gotten a bit buried in the other info in the vid. Watch around 3:10; basically, you want to Filter -> Offset the image as you're painting to make sure you paint over the edges so they match up! I've found it's helpful to do this throughout your workflow so you can keep checking the alignment.
@@Kairosmith whoops my bad for missing that!
Can u make create terrain tutorial series like wow style? By the way thanks for these. Very helpful
I'm glad they're helpful for you! What kind of terrain tutorials are you thinking? More of these types of tiling textures but in World of Warcraft style (grass/sand/etc.), or tutorials on how to texture 3D models...?
@@Kairosmith i mean grass but i need another one too. I looked your channel and for a long time , you are not uploading videos i hope grow up 👏
Gaia Tree Yes it's been a while! Work keeps me busy, but I should have a less busy March this year since the Game Developer's Conference has been postponed. I might be able to get something started for you!
@@Kairosmith thanks a lot but you dont need to disrupt your work for me. Respects
Nice tutorial, I wish I could easily do this in procreate on the ipad. Photoshop is too hardcore for my little hobby (drawing dungeons for d&d on a low and simple level).
Thanks! Ahh yeah, I've seen at least one forum post out there asking Procreate to implement some sort of offset or repeating feature. Seems like they still don't have plans to tackle that feature, but that would be pretty cool to have on an iPad and I do love seeing more D&D dungeons!
Hi! Thank you sososo much for posting these tutorials. Theyre fantastic and soooo helpful. I know you havent posted in a while, but if you ever post tutorials again could you do one on grass texture?
Thanks for the kind words Sofia! Honestly, with the current epidemic situation right now, there's never been a better time to crank out some tutorials. Adding it to the list. :)
Kairosmith wow, thanks for the swift reply! Dont feel pressured to post anything, since the world is pretty stressful right now!
Sofia Lafitte That’s very considerate of you; we’ll get through this! Honestly, the encouragement and positivity from people like you is making me more excited about getting back to TH-cam. I just created a grass texture tutorial if you’d like to check it out: th-cam.com/video/fWS35BLWUqE/w-d-xo.html
Can you make a sand tutorial ?
I'll see what I can do!
Beautiful, thank you so much! Like and subscribed.
Hello! I want to learn to draw like you, but I really dont know how to start, how did you start drawing your first textures?
Hey Ultra T! Good question; my first textures were done out of necessity for my game development classes. We needed textures, so I had to figure out what I was doing rather quickly.
In terms of how to start, I would suggest making a set of goals. Long-term goals might be something like "I want to be able to make hand-painted textures like in World of Warcraft." Short-term goals might be what you're going to do this month, this week, or today, such as "This month I will focus on learning everything I can about rocks," or "Today I will paint 5 rocks." Especially if you haven't done much drawing lately or don't have your own style yet, know that it is perfectly okay to try to replicate or copy photographs or what other artists have done. We call these master studies. Of course, you should make sure that if you post your studies online anywhere, you label them as such and attribute the original artist! But even though they might not be your unique pieces, you can learn SO MUCH from doing them. I hope those tips are helpful!
@@Kairosmith yes wow art style is amazing, its so different from other games
Gaia Tree Thank you!
HI, what pen table are u using?
Hi! For this tutorial I used a Wacom Intuos 5 (Medium), but I currently own a Huion Inspiroy Q11K V2.
@@Kairosmith Thanks.
Amazing..thxx :)
I love your videos! Keep it up . do you have a course? i would be happy to Pay for one
Hi, thanks for your interest! I don't have a course at the moment, though if I ever create any paid content in addition to these tutorials, I'll be sure to make a post about it!
who just paid attention to the music?
Iykyk 😂😂😂
hi can you criticize what i made, i uploaded a video on my channel of one of the rocks i finished, if you could tell me whats wrong with it and what i could do better it would be awesome. thank you if you do and even if not this tutorial helped me alot thank you.
Hi! Sure, I'll take a look and leave you a comment on your video.
you have to do it slow :"(
Sorry Little Bunny! Trying to find a balance between showing everything and keeping the video length down. I'm still perfecting the tutorial-making process, so thanks for the input.