#tiling textures

I've been making tiling patterns in Krita, a free painting app.

Digging into creating custom SubUV textures.  Here are two useful links I found!

Tiling

Down on the Boardwalk and Afternoon at the Red Tavern

Technique wise, I mostly treat digital painting the same way I treat traditional media - but in the occasional case of needing to break up large areas of compositional space, I've finally taken to painting myself tiling textures to fill it.

For those unaware, you accomplish this by painting your texture in the software of your choice, dragging it into Photoshop, and navigating to Filter --> Other --> Offset. Fiddle with the sliders until you wind up with the former edges of your canvas visibly crossing in the middle. Paint over these intersections to line them up seamlessly. Offset again to make certain. Once you can seamlessly offset the texture, repeat it on a large plane, and navigate to Edit --> Transform --> Perspective. Depending on the area you are trying to texture, Warp and Distort may also be useful. Fit into your image. Paint over the edges or use layer masks as necessary to clean up your fit.

As for these particular pieces, the first was an individual commission, and the second was a group commission I orchestrated (the character behind the bar is Blood Raven, one of my personal OCs). Other than the floor and boardwalk textures, all other aspects of these pieces were drafted and painted with my usual approach. (Sketch - color flats - multiply and overlay to establish base lighting - and then just loads and loads of straightforward painting.)