Graphics Programs Reference
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TAN
Moses Tan
Moses Tan recreated astonishing detail and captured a precise likeness of his
photographic reference using mostly meticulously-drawn filled paths, but he used
custom art and scatter brushes for some of the intricate details (
Painted Weed
Detail
). He preferred to use scatter brushes for the small-sized growth and art
brushes for the larger foliage. To make an art or scatter brush he first drew a weed
object, then dragged it into the Brushes panel and in the New Brush Options,
selected Art Brush or Scatter Brush (
Tan's Brushes Panel
). For art brushes he
specified the stroke direction (either top to bottom or left to right) so when he drew a
brushstroke, the foliage was oriented correctly. He kept the other parameters at the
default settings. For the scatter brushes he varied options for each weed (size,
spacing, scatter, and rotation). For scatter brushes he used Page for “Rotation
relative to,” and to preserve the original artwork colors in all his brushes, he used a
Colorization of None. To paint with a brush he would select the Paintbrush tool, a
scatter or art brush, and draw paths to easily form the weeded detail in his drawing.
