What You'll Learn. One of Photoshop's most amazing features for creating digital drawings is the possibility to influence how your brush tool works. This becomes particularly exciting when you use Photoshop to emulate traditional drawing media, like for example pencil, watercolor, ink or brush pen.

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In this free and short class, I want to show you how you can use your standard brush tool to give your linework a more textured and nuanced look and how to make people swear that your lines were actually drawn on paper.

What You'll Need

Not that much, actually. If you want to replicate the work I do in this class exactly, you will need the "Megapack" from Kyle T. Webster. Kyle makes the most amazing brushes for emulating traditional media in Photoshop, and I highly recommend getting this pack. At the time of this writing, the Megapack costs $15.

If you don't want to spend that money on brushes right now, I can totally get that, in which case, a quick Google search will ensure that you start this class with traditional brushes that totally suit your style.

In the class project, you will find the "Layer Mask & Fill" Photoshop action I use in the class, as well as the sketch of the penguin I use as an example.

For your class project, you will take an old sketch you have lying around, scan it into Photoshop and use what you learned and your newly acquired brushes to do the cleanest and most amazing linework you ever did!

Don't feel pressured to do anything special for the project, and don't make a new sketch just to prepare for the class, we want to focus on the look and feel of the linework, not the actual subject matter of your sketch.

If you don't have a sketch that you would like to use for the project, you can go ahead and download the PSD file of the sketch I used in this class.

I can't wait to see all the cool linework you make!