Thread: A style experiment and a revision of Ilaros

You don't necessarily need a path if you draw things out by hand on a tablet or with a mouse but it might make it easier the first few times you do it. All you need is to set some scatter in your brush. Keep the scatter distance very low but up the count to 2 or 3. What this will do is slightly offset each time it puts down a dot and put down two or three dots. Another option is to use a mask. Make a mask of the lines then on the mask run the pixellate-crystallize filter and then smooth it out with the noise-median filter. I do this all the time for lumpy stuff.

I've managed to get some waviness to the lines by using the 'glass' filter in Photoshop. I'm fairly happy with the result. I've also fixed the border to make it more regular and added a scale.

I do have a question about masks. I've never really figured them out so I've generally avoided them. Is there a simple, general tutorial on them about here?

Thanks for the ideas.

Looks good! I don't know much about Photoshop, but I know that Jfraz wrote up a tutorial explaining layer masks in GIMP. My guess is that PS offers more options but this tut may at least explain the basics and give you a general understanding of how layer masks work.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

Thanks for the Plug Arsheesh... Del.............. did a companion tutorial for PS masks a few days after, but I did not read it.....

Thanks for the link. I'll have a look in to these and give them a try.