Case study 4: textures

My wood texture was paint-based, and I used a lot of layer blending techniques as well as blur and sharpen.

For the metal, I scribbled and blended in paint, sharpened, and used the oil paint tool. Then I created a new layer with “clouds”, changed the blending layer, and got a shiny metal looking texture. It looks like a smoky metal design that could be used as a metal tray of some kind.