Graphic designer and illustrator Andrew Fairclough is incredibly skilled when it comes to creating digital design assets that make realistic textures look completely effortless. He founded True Grit Texture Supply back in 2016, establishing a design resource that has earned a reputation for providing some of the best textured resources on the retail market.
True Grit Texture Supply offers a variety of products that make it a snap to add traditional halftone textures and realistic distressing and grain to digital design projects. A labor of love, Andrew has spent countless hours experimenting with textures using real-world source materials that are later digitized and turned into brushes and other design assets.
Over the years, Andrew has found that many of True Grit Texture Supply’s customers are makers in their own right, including apparel designers who seek a vintage aesthetic in their work, music and film designers, comic illustrators, and indie game designers.
Andrew focuses on the finest details as he works in Photoshop and Illustrator, starting his design process with analog textures obtained from real-world objects that are later scanned and converted to digital textures. His process is one that always lends an element of realism to every design project and it’s the reason why his work is so popular with designers who strive for authenticity.
One of our favorite products from True Grit Texture Supply is Dead Subtle Brush Set, a part of the studio’s Signature Collection of design assets. Dead Subtle Brush Set adds a subtle element of grain, grit, and natural wear and tear — effortlessly.
Developed in conjunction with renowned illustrator and designer Milan Chagoury, Dead Subtle Brush Set was crafted from real-world source materials, all of which create authentic effects in a variety of depths that will compliment a wide range of styles and applications. Source materials used for this toolkit included bond, watercolor, speckle tone, and waffled paper stocks; box boards, real scratched and worn print samples; paper folds, crease, and crinkles; and dry brush strokes.
Dead Subtle Brush Set offers 27 high-resolution texture brushes that have soft brush edges for easy blending, repeating textures without leaving harsh edges to clean up afterward. Additionally, this toolkit provides one worn record sleeve .psd file with 17 texture options to choose from.
While this product is recommended for novice to expert Photoshop users, it includes a brush installation guide, a user guide for the worn record .psd file, a Gide for brush tips and tricks, and a brush preview cheat sheet booklet.
For optimal use, True Grit Texture Supply recommends using Dead Subtle Brush Set with Adobe Photoshop CS6 or higher, and recommends using a computer with a 2.4ghz processor or better. Additionally, 8gb of RAM are required (16+ is recommended) and this toolkit requires 645mb of available storage space.
True Grit Texture Supply currently offers 26 products through YouWorkForThem, offering a wide variety of distressed texturing tools for design projects of all kinds. Visit their portfolio to take a look at the rest of their products and bookmark it so you won’t miss out on future additions!
