ART 220 11: Brushes From Your Own Marks

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · Workshop

Your mark sheet becomes a set of brushes. Three illustrators whose texture comes from their own hand, pictures only: Jon Klassen, Owen Davey and Tom Haugomat. Then how to turn a scanned mark into a brush tip in Photoshop, and into Art and Scatter brushes in Illustrator. Exercise 4: three brushes from your own marks, a line, a tone and a texture, a test sheet, and one brush tried on your poster. After the break, drawing time. The drawing is due finished Thursday, when we scan it in class.

Due

- Brushes from your marks.

Materials

- [Brushes From Your Own Marks, the slides](/lecture/art220-brushes.html). Three illustrators, then brushes in Photoshop and Illustrator, then the exercise. - [The slides as a PDF](/lecture/art220-brushes.pdf). The same deck to keep. - [The mark sheet](/handouts/p2-mark-sheet.pdf). From session 9. Your brushes come from these boxes. If you lost yours, fill six boxes on scrap paper in the first ten minutes.

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Class 11 of 28, ART 220, Digital Illustration, Charleston Southern University, Fall 2026.