Malvern textured paint

Another developmental piece for my college work. This was inspired (kind of) by some of Donglu Yu's work since she often has a textured style. I'm really happy with the way this has turned out!

I simply painted a photo in PS with a hard brush then went in with a chalk-y brush to build up some more details, then patted the next layer with chalk brush and kept patting till I was happy. Pat pat pat pat.... Then I took a scanned textured form a book and/or paper-y thing and applied it with an overlay. I kept adding more textures around the page, adjusting where I felt it needed more or less.

Completed in Photoshop CS6, using a Wacom Bamboo and Wacom Cintiq 22" and found/scanned papers.