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Vintage Halloween Journal Ephemera

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  • by CottageFairy
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Vintage Halloween Journal Ephemera
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About Vintage Halloween Journal Ephemera

Most of what turns up under bat needs work before it is usable. Vintage Halloween Journal Ephemera is the version that does not. No reviews either way, so the preview is doing all the work on this one. It is CottageFairy's work. With 20 saves it has barely been seen, and that is neither a good nor a bad sign on a catalogue this size.

A texture is only as good as the resolution it is supplied at, so we check that it covers the canvas we work on before we start layering with it. The obvious job for it is card making, and obvious is right here — the file was built around that and it shows. Before downloading, give the preview a full-size look and read the licence tab — two clicks, and they answer most of what the listing leaves unsaid.

If you came in looking for cards, cauldron, clipart and collage, you are in the right place — the listing carries all of those, which is the clearest sign the designer built it for that job rather than retitled it afterwards. It is shelved with the rest of the textures and effects, and that is the quickest way to see what else sits in the same register before you settle on this one. The same shelf also answers to texture, effect, action, overlay and style, so widen the search there before giving up on it. Judged against the requests we see — action poses reference drawing, tattoo style drawings, paper airplane drawing, manga style drawing and paper boat drawing — this is a middle-of-the-road answer, and middle of the road is usually what the job needs.

Vintage Halloween Journal Ephemera Specifications

File nameVintage Halloween Journal Ephemera
DesignerCottageFairy
File typeTextures and Effects
FormatDigital download
RatingNot rated yet
ReviewsNone yet
Saved by20 makers on Creative Fabrica
Where to get itCreative Fabrica

How to use this file

  1. Download the set from Creative Fabrica and unzip it — brush sets arrive as .brushset for Procreate or .abr for Photoshop.
  2. Open the brush file on the iPad and it installs itself into a new set; in Photoshop, drag the .abr onto the canvas.
  3. Try every brush once on a scrap canvas and delete the ones you will not use — a bloated brush list slows you down more than it helps.
  4. Keep reference sheets at full size in a separate folder: downscaled references hide exactly the detail you needed them for.

Download Details

  • Format: Digital download
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  • Licence: whichever licence Creative Fabrica shows for this file — check it there before you sell what you make
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