I also need either some China or Porcelain textures for use on bowls - or a tutorial on how to paint them myself - I would prefer to learn how to do them myself.

Can anyone help?

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No, I don't mean a random texture like marble - I mean a painted design of some kind, like a bowl of flowers - a flower and butterflies - a blue japanese bridge, house and tree - that sort of porcelain.

I'd prefer some basic instruction on how to paint something like that - anything will do to begin with - onto a bowl... plate, vase, etc.

Otherwise I'd like some ready done designs... is there a site somewhere that has stuff like that?

I've already looked through Lemogs, Mayangs, 3dTotal and other sites like those with no luck.

For the first effort I only need the end result to LOOK like a china bowl with a design on it from some little distance, but I'd like to know how to do it properly so that eventually I can use the design even in close-ups.

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Author: Sheila Southwell

Synopsis: "Basic china painting techniques, and...mention of paints that can be used when a kiln is not available....Instructions for transferring drawings, using luster glazes, and undertaking a variety of designs are accompanied by step-by-step color illustrations of good quality....Projects inclu...

tom271,

Er..... that's not quite what I had in mind. I meant PhotoShop tuts, for use on 3D models.

Or (2nd best) some already made designs for use on 3D models  - so I can look at them and find out how to do it myself... see?

(Besides, I don't have $23, to spare - me student, me skint)

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials.html
Searchable archive of Photoshop tutorials, FREE (I'm cheap too :laugh: )

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=373024
Stonemason's illustrated Photoshop Paint/Texturing Tutorial - definetly deserves at least one read through.

Had you said "tut like"  for PS.  then I would have probably failed you anyway....

Here is an Image of a plate.. maybe you can apply it like a texture on something...

I know... I know.... it is not what you want.....

There are some books that usually can be found at a local chain bookstore that have patterns for like, $5 to $15. I have a few. All they are, are like black patterns, reminds me of engravings, page after page. There's Chinese and Japanese styles also. You can scan a page, send it to your favorite image editing software and modify them (watercolor them out, make them blue or red or gold (for that fancy maki-e look). Since they are black on white, can import them to Bryce's terrain editor and 3D them with very little modification. These booklets would be in the art section, probably in a stand by themselves.

I personally uses these things when making a box in the maki-e style. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maki-e)

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