Going Abstract With Photoshop Brushes

From swirls to smudges to wavy lines to splotches to spots to smoky patterns to curves to flashes of light to mismatched colors to shadings to circles to squares to geometric angles to explosions to zigzags, … any kind of abstract shape and image you can think of it can be found in Photoshop Brushes.  In relation to art, abstract deals with that which is nonrepresentational of any specific kind of object or idea; it aims to present a concept that appeals to an intrinsic kind of scrutiny as opposed to presenting a clear, objective picture or image.  Abstract art is rather hard to appreciate, especially when one doesn’t really understand what it is meant or not meant to be.  At best, where technology is concerned, abstract art somehow seems to make a better impression.  And with Photoshop Brushes one can make good use of abstract art both as backdrops to a primary image or just as a design for a particular theme or expression.

Photoshop Brushes is rife with tutorials for abstract artwork and effects that cater to any artistic style, taste, and level.  They aid in creating effects that just make that imaginary light bulb inside your head click on.  A few examples are:

• Shape dynamics.  This application provides basic information on how one can manipulate the brushes’ size, angle, and roundness, even how to give the brush a “jitter” effect (as though an unsteady, amateur-like hand had really made that jittery stroke across the page – or screen).
• Brush dynamics.  With this application, you can turn an ordinary looking line into a wave of patterns that may lead to anywhere you want them to go.
• Abstract dust and spray effects.  With dust and spray, one gives an illusion of flying molecules scattering here and there.  It produces a rather mystifying and explosive effect.
• Deviant artwork.  Perfect title for those willing and itching to make art that is not confined to conventional principles and expectations.  It has to do with swirling lines of light of differing colors set against a black backdrop.
• Watercolor effect.  This application helps capture the effects of a real kind of paintbrush.  Random strokes here and there with different colors, shades, and gradients can make for a really remarkable abstract artwork.

Through these applications, one can be trained thoroughly on what types of drawing and brushing effects work best for certain details that one would like to apply for certain images.  In the real kind of painting, this would probably be the equivalent of teaching a beginner how to properly hold a paintbrush and how to make the basic shades, shapes, and angles.  You will also learn how to incorporate patterns, colors, images, and/or symbols of your liking.  The lines and waves you create can run parallel to each other or they can crisscross over each other, as though they were randomly crashing against each other and can be as thick or thin and as long or short as you want them to be.  The spray and dust effects play well with all kinds of colors and shades.  If you were to use these for reinforcing a primary image, be careful not to overdo it or else it would lose its proper effect; they are best applied after the primary image has been fixed up.  Duplicated layer upon duplicated layer presents tools on how to make one shade of color more brilliant or darker than the other.  Swirling lines of light can swish and run and curve any way you want; your finished product will give an illusion of light or lights traveling around the black open space in random patterns and directions.  A lot of layering, filtering, and playing with different kinds of color blending takes place.  These applications are perfect for the Photoshop artist who just wants to go crazy with clicking the mouse and with combining colors that match or don’t match at all.

In making abstract art with Photoshop Brushes, one must be careful not to go overboard and over-think one’s design and style.  It is abstract, after all, and so it should not be too complicated or complex in its make and appearance, just so you can give room for observers and viewers of your images to marvel and wonder at what your artwork means so that it stirs their imagination up; then they will be able to come to their own conclusion as to what you are trying to express with your masterpiece.

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