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Watch how the paper texture affects plain brush strokes in Photoshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/span>\n
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Art Surfaces – Paper textures for digital artists<\/h2>\n

Art Surfaces from GrutBrushes are professional paper textures<\/strong> for digital artists to paint or draw on in Photoshop. These seamlessly tiling, layered Photoshop templates add realistic paper, canvas and other surface textures to your digital paintings and drawings, including the light and shadows cast by the finest microsurface features of the paper textures that they simulate.<\/p>\n

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Left:<\/em> Regular brush on a white background  Right<\/em>: GrutBrushes Art brushes on an Art Surface<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>
When you paint or draw on a piece of paper or canvas in the real world, the ink, paint or graphite doesn\u2019t hover above the surface like a sheet of plastic as you so often see in digital paintings which can seem to have more in common with painting on glass than they do with the warmth of traditional artist\u2019s media like paper or canvas.<\/p>\n

Click the hearts image to see how GrutBrushes Art Surfaces + GrutBrushes can mimic real media<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the ‘real world’ the texture of the surface you draw or paint on has a huge impact on the look of your artwork. Each surface reflects and absorbs light differently according to its surface properties and textures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In the real world, ink sinks into the softer crevices of the paper, pooling in it\u2019s craggy divots while sunshine and highlights brighten the glossy bumps and ridges of the paper texture\u2019s highest peaks.<\/p>\n

In the real world, pastels don\u2019t form a plastic layer above the paper, they get grated into the pores of a heavily textured professional artists paper. The toothy, stained peaks catch the light while the waxy remains coat the valleys of this microscopic landscape. These Photoshop templates (Art Surfaces from GrutBrushes) attempt to mimic those physical properties with ‘smart’ paper templates.<\/div><\/div>

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Paper’s texture is defined by how light reflects off It’s tiny bumps and ridges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Add Natural Warmth to Your Digital Paintings<\/h2>\n

GrutBrushes Art Surfaces paper texture templates <\/strong>auto-magically apply these lighting effects to your drawings and paintings live as you paint in Photoshop (or later if you prefer) with non-destructive, removable Layer Comp<\/em> presets that you can apply, remove or tweak as you see fit to give you a natural looking paper texture base that integrates seamlessly with your drawings and paintings to give them that organic warmth so often missing from digital paintings.<\/p>\n

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\nEach Art Surface contains 4 to 10 ‘Smart Surface’ settings which let you change the look of your surface texture and the artwork with one click of a button.
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Try One For Free!<\/h2>\n
\n<\/i> Download ‘Kensington Art Surface’ Photoshop Template (PSD) 65MB<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\nUpdate: The Paper Textures are now available in the shop<\/a> with many more to come.<\/p>\n
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The Paper Texture is “LIVE”! \u2014 Art Surfaces are applied as you paint<\/h2>\n

These are not plugins or effects that you have to ‘run’ to apply to your artwork, they are layered Photoshop files into which you can draw and paint ‘live’ Which also means you can just as easily remove the paper texture layers and your RAW artwork will always be available, untouched by the Art Surfaces.<\/p>\n

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How to use them:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open the PSD file in Photoshop<\/li>\n
  2. Start painting in the green layer and the paper texture is automatically applied ‘live’ as you draw or paint
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    This has many advantages including:<\/strong><\/p>\n