>[!card|hero dark] > ##### How to add organic/traditional texture to digital art using brushes and overlays. > ## How I Add Texture To My Art > This site is *non-profit*! You can support this website my donating to my *Ko-Fi* > Follow my *Ko-Fi* for notifications on major updates or new tutorials. It's **free**! > >[[About]] [[Contact Me]] [Ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/E1E1VOW9) >[!grid] >>[!question|tag] **[[Home]]** > >>[!question|tag] **[[Tutorials]]** >[!infobox] Brushes Used > >- [[Intoxicate Pencil Set]] >- [[RC Side Pencil]] >- [[LP Traditionalizer]] > [!question|query] > >_From Tumblr_ > >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 :) > [!hr|ros] > [!columns|ruled] > >> [!col] > > 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 :) > > >[!col] > >>[!fig|blueprint] Pencil Brush Example > >>![[Pasted image 20250527084232.webp]] > [!columns|ruled] > > > [!col] > > 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. > > >>To add colour jitter onto any brush, just go to your brush while your canvas is open, go to the *Tool Property Window* **(fig. 02)**, 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! >> >>> [!grid] > > >>[!fig] fig. 01 > >>> ![[Pasted image 20250527083141.webp]] > > > > > >>[!fig] fig. 02 > > >> ![[Pasted image 20250527083409.webp]] >> > >> [!col] > > > [!grid] > > >>[!fig|blueprint] **Without** Colour Jitter > > >> ![[Pasted image 20250527082120.webp]] > > > > > > >[!fig|blueprint] **With** Colour Jitter > > > >![[Pasted image 20250527082141.webp]] > [!columns|ruled] > > [!col] > > 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*, *Linear 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. I usually go with *Linear Light*, but I just use whatever blending mode looks the best for each individual piece. > > > > >[!col] > > >[!fig|blueprint] Example with **Colour Jitter** > > >![[Pasted image 20250527084123.webp]] > > > > > [!grid] > > > >[!fig|blueprint] **Without** Traditionalizer > > > >![[Pasted image 20250527085334.webp]] > > > > > > >[!fig|blueprint] **With** Traditionalizer (Soft Light) > > > >![[Pasted image 20250527085451.webp]]