Many working artists nowadays use Adobe Photoshop to create digital paintings and illustrations. This week, we will be exploring the Brush Tool and its various options.

Photoshop’s Brush Tool seems simplistic at first glance. You choose a color for your brush using the color palette or color picker. As for the shape of the brush, Photoshop provides plenty of brush presets for shapes and…

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Happy New Year from Second Avenue! After taking a couple of weeks to enjoy the end of the year holidays and festivities, we are back with another Technique of the Week. In this installment, we will be returning to the creative side with tips on how to create a black and white line art piece using Adobe Illustrator. (NOTE: You should be familiar with the Pen Tool prior…

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‘Technique of the Week’ is an ongoing series where the art and development teams here at Second Avenue will dish out some quick, useful, and hopefully fun tips and techniques. We will try and provide some insight on the skills that allow us to realize our projects or observations about works that inspire us creatively.

With this being the inaugural ‘Technique of the Week’ post, I wanted to kick…

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