dbanks Design

This project was done com­pletely in Pho­to­shop and was brought on by my urge for paint­ing. I used to be a semi-talented painter when I was an early teen, then pro­ceeded to drop it for more impor­tant things like High School, sports, and chas­ing girls.

Now the urge to paint again has bub­bled to the sur­face, but I do not yet have paints, so I set­tled for the next best thing…Photoshop. I started with a pretty cool stock image of 2 man­nequins and a very shal­low depth of field. I started by using the art his­tory brush to paint over the man­nequins, and I made a few lay­ers of the art his­tory brush get­ting smaller and smaller. Then came the more fun part of using some cus­tom Pho­to­shop brushes to ‘paint’ over that and give it a more real painted look. After that was time for some grungy brushes to add some more tex­ture. Then came the col­or­ful back­ground done in the same fash­ion to add some flair.

I’m very pleased with how this turned out, and hope­fully some­day soon I can actu­ally cre­ate this using real paints…