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Photoshop Experiment Blocky Brushes

May 02, 2008

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...

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My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.

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28 Comments

Rusty Shacleford05/02/2008

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..

Constantin Potoac05/02/2008

Great one Fabio. Really love it.

therapix05/02/2008

Looking nice :)

giackop05/02/2008

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

Dev05/03/2008

Great flow and design Fabio! :)

artsteez05/03/2008

wow, crazy process by Mr. White. Definately looking forward to the simplified tut, thanks.

Sean Hodge05/03/2008

Fabio, the tut looks great.

Dy™ 05/03/2008

nice tuts bro! i'll wait that tuts
welldone!! :D

JML05/03/2008

Nice. Looking forward to see the tutorial :D

ferdinand05/03/2008

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.

Andrew05/03/2008

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 ;)

Alif05/05/2008

Cool.

Mirko05/05/2008

Is there coming a tutorial? When YES, WWWWHHHHEEEENNNN??? ;-) I´m really impatient!!!

BogDinamita05/05/2008

you're great man!

Cristina05/06/2008

I really like it! specially the colors how you have used them!

Taksty05/06/2008

Love it ! :)

BogDinamita05/06/2008

jeez man the tut is a BLAST!!!

Onegreensun05/07/2008

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&...

Qbrushes05/20/2008

love this tutorial!

Anonymous06/12/2008

i've being thying to follow this tut, but for some reazon my Brushes palette doesn't work, it seems to be loocked if you can help me to unlock it thanks

rosina07/27/2008

Muy buen trabajo, gracias por el tutorial!! Se entienden muy bien todos los pasos, espero que sigas subiendo otros.
Saludos!

lordCovenant08/18/2008

cool tut!

Olivier Hanzel08/28/2008

That is awesome

beedesign10/03/2008

Really cool.

I just took a look at the tutorial and did something myself...

it comes in colors

Cheers!

G-well™10/20/2008

Your tutorials are all Rock and Roll!!! \m/

ryne12/08/2008

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW DO I POST MY STUFF

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