Minitutorial: Un-boring-ifying Materials! (Patreon)

(GIF below) Sometimes you're painting a texture or surface and...it feels really boring and flat! OH NO. BUT WAIT! There are VERY easy ways to make a material feel alive and vivid, such as these 3 simple tools! Adding a secondary material, developing hue/saturation variation, and painting in surfaces imperfections like scratches, lumps, and bumps can breathe life into a painting. This was entirely painted with the hard round default brush in Photoshop.