> [!email]+   > > > [!note] From > > [kookuborugh](https://kookuborugh.tumblr.com/) > > > [!note] To > > https://turtle-brownie.tumblr.com/ask > > > [!note|sep] Subject > >** How To Add Texture To My Art** > >*Sent* _25/05/2025_ > >Hey!! I had an art question (sorry if people have asked you this before!!) > >I have recently been attempting digital art in procreate after being a traditional artist (markers and coloured pencils) my whole life. I’m really missing TEXTURE. But I have no idea how to incorporate that into digital art - so I’m very inspired by your paintings!!! > >Are you using textured brushes with pigment? Or are you using some sort of clear overlay? If you’re using brushes, could you tell me the set? > >Thank you very much! Your art is wonderful :) --- >[!hint|noicon]   >Hello!! Thank you for the question!! > >I find there are a lot of ways to add texture to art, and usually I use more than one method of doing so when I am painting. > >The first method is with your brushes; I use pencil textures brushes such as the [[Intoxicate Pencil Set]] or [[RC Side Pencil]], and use them to render detail/blend my colours together. I find it's also the _way_ you use the textured brushes that help; I try to use them like traditional pencils where I try to drag/draw with the pen in the same direction, usually following the form of whatever shape I'm colouring. This, on top of not overdoing the layering of the pen stroke, and having a colour underneath to fill out those white spots poking through really helps :) > >|**Pencil Brush Example**| >|-| >|![[Pasted image 20250527084232.webp]]| > >On top of that, a lot of my painting brushes are adjusted slightly to have *colour jitter*; this is a feature in Clip Studio that makes it so each stroke is a slightly different colour, as well as each 'stamp' of texture having a slightly different colour as well. > >|**Without Colour Jitter**|**With Color Jitter**| >|-|-| >|![[Pasted image 20250527082120.webp]]|![[Pasted image 20250527082141.webp]]| >|(The pen used here is [[oilset]])|| > >To add colour jitter onto any brush, just go to your brush while your canvas is open, go to the *Tool Property Window*, click the *Wrench Icon* on the bottom right, click *Colour Jitter* on the right-side menu, turn on *Change Brush Tip Colour* and *Randomize Per Stroke*, and adjust the sliders however you'd like! > >| | | >|-|-| >|![[Pasted image 20250527083141.webp]]|![[Pasted image 20250527083409.webp]]| > >|**Example With Colour Jitter**| >|-| >|![[Pasted image 20250527084123.webp]]| > >The second, easiest method (and also my favourite as of recent) is using an overlay; I use the [[LP Traditionalizer]], where I take a texture that I like, overlay it on a new layer above my finished art, and set the blending mode to something other than 'normal' and done! I think this is what has gotten me the most compliments on the texture in my art haha. > >The only issue with this is that it sort of janks with the colour a bit? I usually set the texture layer's blending mode as either *Linear Burn*, *Soft Light* or *Hard Light* , but I find linear burn darkens the entire canvas a bit much and soft light makes the texture a bit less noticeable than I like. Hard light is a hit or miss; I just use whatever blending mode looks the best for each individual piece. > >|**Without Traditionalizer**| >|-| >|![[Pasted image 20250527085334.webp]]| > >|**With Traditionalizer (Soft Light)**| >|-| >|![[Pasted image 20250527085451.webp]]| --- >[!todo|noicon] Have a question to ask? Check out the [[Contact Me]] page to see where you can ask :)