For the final stages I add in the lower railing on the fire escape as well as adding in the windows on the shadow side. I also fixed some errors on the top railing of the fire escape. One thing that people run into a lot of times is that they feel like their illustration just feels too “digital.” This can especially happen if you are just using normal round brushes and not any custom textured brushes. One way to add some texture to your painting is by taking pictures and overlaying them on top of your illustration.
After you find the texture you want to use, desaturate it by hitting ctrl+u and then dragging the saturation bar down all the way to the left.
The reason that you want to desaturate the texture is because you are probably only wanting the texture in your image, and not the color as well. Take your texture and copy/paste it into a new layer in your illustration. Now you can set that layer to “overlay” and lower the opacity down.
Since I only used the first texture for the lower part of the image, I am going to need another part for the top. I took this other texture and pasted it into a new layer and set that one to “overlay” as well.
Now I am just darkening the areas under the ledges and adding in some more texture overlays. One thing to remember about using texture overlays is that it is never the end result, but just the beginning. You will probably want to paint more on top of your texture layers in order to better integrate it into your painting so that it doesn’t look so alien.
Some areas of the texture were getting too distracting, so I knocked them back by painting some of the building base color on top of it. Always be aware of the illustration as a whole. You can have errors here and there, but if you started out with correct basic shapes and a good composition your illustration will still succeed.
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