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Learn to Create Custom Textures: A Digital Texture Design Class for Illustrators & Designers

Unlock the power of texture design to enhance your digital illustrations, hand lettering, and graphic design work. In this beginner-friendly online art class, you’ll learn how to create your own custom textures using both photography and digital tools in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Textures add depth, warmth, and personality to your artwork—whether you're working with clean vector shapes or hand-drawn, organic designs. They’re one of the most effective ways to give your digital art a handmade, authentic feel.

In this class, you'll learn how to:

• Photograph and capture unique textures from everyday materials

• Create custom textures from scratch in Photoshop and Illustrator

• Apply textures to illustrations, hand lettering, and designs

• Combine analog and digital techniques for one-of-a-kind results

• Use your textures to bring a custom pennant design to life

Whether you’ve used textures before or are just beginning to explore them, this course will give you fresh ideas and practical tools to elevate your creative work.

What—you’ve never made a texture using salt before? Then this class is for you.

Who This Class Is For:
Perfect for illustrators, designers, artists, and hand letterers of all skill levels. If you're new to creating or applying textures—or want to deepen your digital illustration toolkit—this class will give you a solid, inspiring foundation.

Tools & Software You’ll Use:
This class primarily uses:

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe Illustrator

• A Camera or Smartphone (for capturing textures)

• Various Household Materials (like salt!) to photograph

No special gear required—just your creativity and a willingness to experiment.

Class Runtime: Approximately 1 hour, 23 minutes

Please Note: This is a video class originally created for Skillshare.com. I understand that the Skillshare subscription model doesn’t work for everyone, so I’m now offering individual class purchases directly through my website. Because of this, you won’t be able to post projects, receive feedback, or participate in Skillshare contests, but you will get full access to all class videos and content.

While I’m proud of the material, this class was originally recorded in 2015. It’s in 1080p, with mostly modern-looking screen captures, but please note that some of the audio and video quality do not reflect the higher standards I produce today. You can preview this for yourself in the class trailer on YouTube, or check out the sample video linked below.

Since the content is still highly valuable, I’m offering this class at a deeply discounted rate:
https://tinyurl.com/TexturesSample

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