Random Brush Stroke Grain
December 3rd, 2006 by brush
Certainly from Painter 6 onwards (maybe in earlier versions too), there has been an option to randomly move the paper grain texture with each brush stroke made.
Randomizing the brush stroke grain can yield some interesting and useful textures in combination with a suitable variant and a paper with a medium to high level of contrast.
The above option can be activated for any grainy variant by checking the Random Brush Stroke Grain check box in the Random section of the Brush Controls.
My demo image shows brush strokes using the same paper grain/settings without and with the Random Brush Stroke Grain option checked. I have used the Etched paper from the Relief Textures library (which I believe came from the Painter IX Extras> Paper Textures folder), in conjunction with the HTex Random BS Grain custom variant.
The above variant, which can be used in Painter 7 and above, incorporates the checked Random Brush Stroke Grain option and is available by clicking the following link;
randomBSG.zip (4 KB)
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This one’s great, something I totally missed up till now. It might be even cooler if you could link Paper qualities (size, contrast, etc) to brush Expressions, like pressure or rotation. And I still wish there was a way to rotate the paper texture as well. But this is a huge leap forward! Thanks.