Creating a textured inking brush
In this section, we will be creating a textured inking brush that will help us depict a certain grungy look. This exercise will get us familiar with creating and saving a custom brush tip and adjusting some of the brush tip settings in the Sub Tool Detail palette. Complete the following steps to make this textured inking brush:
- On a new canvas, create a new raster layer. Make sure that Color Expression in the Layer Property palette is set to Gray.
- Select the Airbrush tool and the Droplet sub tool. On the gray layer, make a circular shape with the Droplet tool, using pure black as the active color. Don't make this too precise; we want some variation to it. Your shape should look something like this:
Figure 9.1 – Screenshot of the Droplet tool's mark
- Turn off all layers apart from the one with the shape we created in the previous step. This includes any paper layers! We only want to see our new brush tip shape before completing...