Photoshop Experiment Blocky Brushes
Yesterday was holiday and I took the day to do some Photoshop experiments. One of these experiments was inspired by the work of James White.
I’m a huge fan of the James White’s work, I love the way he plays with geometric elements and colors, it gives a retro feeling to the design but at the same time very modern. In an interview he told that he uses a Flash script to generate the vectors, then he does the rest of the job in Illustrator and Photoshop.
My workflow is rather simple. I wrote a very simple program in Flash that allowed me to create random assortments of shapes that I export to a postscript file so I can edit them in Illustrator. From there I will clean up the exports, add gradients, and use brushes to bend my shapes into unconventional combinations. Then I port them into Photoshop one by one where I can overlap them, lay down colors, lighting effects, textures, etc. James White.
After some time thinking, I sort of figure out a way to do that only in Photoshop. I’ve tried to simplified the process, the effect uses basically the Brush Engine and Layer Styles.
Below you can see the final result. I’ve written a tutorial showing the whole process. It will be published on PSDTUTS, probably next week.
UPDATE: Check the tutorial at http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/mix-cool-retro-curves-into-your-pho...
Cool stuff. The tutorial opened my eyes to some new ways of doing things. Cool way to use the brushes! Here is my version in following the tutorial. http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h230/onegreensun/Artwork/?action=view&...
jeez man the tut is a BLAST!!!
Love it ! :)
I really like it! specially the colors how you have used them!
you're great man!
Is there coming a tutorial? When YES, WWWWHHHHEEEENNNN??? ;-) I´m really impatient!!!
Cool.
I cant wait to see how you do it. After reading the interview on here I tried to do the effect my self with mild success. I cant wait to see how you did it. As long as I dont have to pay ;)
I can't wait to see that tutorial. James White has always been one of my favourite artists and finally I can get an inside to his work.
Nice. Looking forward to see the tutorial :D
nice tuts bro! i'll wait that tuts
welldone!! :D
Fabio, the tut looks great.
wow, crazy process by Mr. White. Definately looking forward to the simplified tut, thanks.
Great flow and design Fabio! :)
i was waiting for a tutorial about james white style... i think i figured it out but i'm looking forward to see your tutorial to make the process faster.. another great tip thanx
Looking nice :)
Great one Fabio. Really love it.
i think that the real problem is where does he get his ideas from, i currently have the "la femme" artwork as my desktop wallpaper, is breathtaking, its so simple and so complex at the same time... thanks for your tutorial, i want to get back home ASAP to start working on it..
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