[rhagin]

Hello everyone,
I was wondering does anyone know of a good tutorial or advice on the thought process of making background textures as a added effect to the art work? Such as http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.ph...ighlight=samus this artist backdrop. For some reason this has always alluded me and I have had no luck finding a answer on the net! Please give me a hand I would appreciate it.

[Legacy40k]

I think that often, artists use high resolution scans of paper. The image provided in the link looks like a piece of paper that was scanned and then had the colour balance changed a bit.

I suggest taking a look at www.bittbox.com, they have a pretty good number of high resolution texture photos/scans for free use.

[NorthernChild]

rhagin yeah, Legacy40k is right, a lot of artist use a photo-textures for background... sometimes two-three layers in different blending mode. And sometimes layers with texture are desaturated and over it one layer in "Color" blending mode - to colorize background. I often use this way

Legacy40k thanks for the link ^__^ really useful

[RClayton]

http://www.cgtextures.com/ < Awesome

[Peter_Coene]

I sometimes overlay old painting on top of each other using varying levels of opacity and masking off different areas of the images until it is a hodgepodge of texture without anything standing out as recognizable, desaturate it, then pump color in for a base tone.

hope that helps

[ChemicalAlia]

You can do a lot with scanned paper with different blend modes and opacity levels in Photoshop, overlayed digital painting. A nice way to build your own texture library is visiting an art store and buying textured paper for printmaking or even craft paper sets.

[jamesfranklin41]

Well,
You can find more informative and inspiring tutorials in this forum too....But need to find them.