Illustration #35 (Patreon)

You can also find the non-goopy version attached to this post (or HERE if you have trouble downloading attachments)

The reward packs will be sent out in about a week. :)

Also, allow me to ramble a bit about some thoughts I have on textured brushes. I normally don't feel quite comfortable using them. I want to, because they're great at simulating surface details and materials with relatively little effort when used right, and I also really like the painterly look a lot of textured brushes create. But I haven't managed to make them fit well into my painting style, which is why you see me use a default round brush for most of what I do. I suspect the reason I have trouble with textured brushes is that I don't go balls-deep with them from the start of the process of a picture. I do the first part with the brushes I'm used to. Ones that create relatively smooth surfaces. And this causes the textured brushes I sometimes experiment with later in the process to stand out, and they don't fit well into the illustration as a whole. 

The context of a textured brush stroke is important. A textured brush stroke can create a rough looking surface in one painting while the identical surface will look smooth in another painting, all because of how much or how little texture the surrounding brush strokes have.

You can probably see in the illustration above that there are some textured strokes in there. I made a new brush with a little bit of texture to it that I feel pretty comfortable with so far, and I'm cautiously optimistic about it. I would like to steer in the direction of a slightly more textured style, and I look forward to trying it out more on the next illustration. 

I've attached the tool preset file for the brush if you'd like to try it out yourself. Please keep in mind that it's not a super fine tuned brush, so don't be afraid to change settings to fit your taste. :)