Make your digital art look like a watercolour in 3 easy steps
Lead concept artist at Dublin-based game studio Digit, Denman Rooke, shows you how.By using textures, transparency and Photoshop’s layer modes, you can achieve a watercolour effectWhen trying to replicate traditional mediums on the digital canvas, we need to first pick apart what makes that particular medium unique.Watercolours are typically a transparent medium, and when painted wet on dry, often have granular diffused brushstrokes with a dark edge. The dark edge is caused by the pigment collecting due to surface tension. A popular approach to watercolour is the application of washes or glazes of colour, to achieve detail and colour variance.First let's get a nice paper texture and import it into our canvas in Photoshop, because that also plays an important part of the traditional effect....