How do you paint plant texture?
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Dan B
Is there an easy way to get a decent looking leaf texture of different varieties? I spent waaaaay too long on this one trying to get it looking like the Agapanthus leaf the photo was of, originally trying to capture the camera flash reflections, but then removing most of that, now it (particularly the right side) looks messy :/ Source photo (well one of the few I took there): Source photo: https://flickr.com/photos/192179891@N08/51803458040/in/dateposted/
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Christopher Beaven
Wow! I just looked at the image and I know what you mean. That plant is nothing but a ton of tiny little specs. If you painted every tiny little spec and detail it would completely overshadow the bug. My suggestion would be to zoom in on the subject a bit more (which you have done) and cut out most of the plant. Then try to generalize the basic values and hues of the plant into larger shapes. I also like to take images like this into Photoshop and add a cutout filter on them just to give me some ideas of how to simplify. I've attached an example. Lastly keep all the edges on the plant really soft this will make the sharp edges of the wasp stand out. Hope that helps!
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Yiming Wu
I think maybe it _is_ the camera flash which gives the leaf dimension? I'm not sure how to do the texture fast, but from looking at the image I don't think there's any way to do it without manually drawing every little dot... There's this guy Andrey Surnov does very detailed lightings by hand... you should check it out :D
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