Footfive Designs

Learn how to create another neat abstract piece in Photoshop! Get those brains thinking!

This tutorials isn’t related to my previous tutorial: Make a cool abstract piece in Photoshop.

It’s another tutorial to show you guys the general idea of how I come up with my abstract pieces.  So this isn’t going to be broken down STEP BY STEP. It will give you a pretty good understanding though of where you should start and how you should go about.

(the images are all 90% to prevent page stretching)

This will be our final design:

So lets get this thing started!

Pre Game: Before I make my abstract pieces I always envision in my head something. Get in the mood to design first. I love to design early in the morning with a cup of coffee in my hand. I use some music to put me in the mood too. I had an idea of an almost sketchbook looking design. Like a mixture of paint, pen, and scribbles on a canvas. With that image in my head, I went on to design this. It is good to have a mental image of what you want at first, then go from there.

1. First step is to make a new blank document in Photoshop. Mine was 600×800. Once again I like the taller then wider, book page looking size. The first thing I did was double click the locked “Untitled” layer, which unlocks it. I renamed it to “BG” (which stands for Background) and filled it with the color: #feeb9b.

2. Basically for this whole piece I used brushes. So lets get out a brush set that matches that mental image of ours. To start off I wanted a nice painted looking brush. Using white, I painted ONE brush down. Just one click.

3. Next I created a new layer. I found a new brush to add on to the overal flow of my image. On this new layer I clicked ONCE again to place the brush, with a white color.

4. Once again, create a new layer, find a new brush. Using white again, click ONCE and create another brush.

5. Use the same technique and keep building onto your flow. Experiment! There is a history tool to delete your last actions performed. As well as “ctrl+z” erases the last action you did. Dont be scared to try stuff out. Here is what I ended up with after a few more layers with just ONE brush per layer. I started to add in more colors as well.

6. A neat technique I learned is if you use a brush with the same foreground color as your background, it will blend the rest of the brushes in pretty neatly. I used a splatter brush and on a new layer brushed with the same color as my BG. Look at how well it blends in.

7. Mess with your image more. Keep adding layers, keep brushing. Mess the with blending options of the layers and you can get some more neat effects. Here is what I got after doing just that.

8. I feel like I achieved what I wanted, so now I put on the text. Just a simple white, almost hidden. I used lyrics from I song that I was listening to at the time when I was designing this.

9. I added another layer of text, using the BG color. I positioned it over the brushes so you could make it our barely. I duplicated a few of the words and made it white, so you would notice the “bg color” layer of text. And THERE YOU HAVE IT!

End Result:

Art on the computer is just like physical art. You can get inspiration from anywhere, music, smells, sounds, enviroments etc. Don’t be afraid to experiment, because unlike with physical art, on the computer you can un-do stuff. Thats why I love this so much. And the possibilities are endless.

Lets see what you guys can come up with! Post your results in the comments!

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