24 seamless surface textures at 2048px — drawing papers, watercolour stocks, canvas weaves and aged surfaces. Every one tiles invisibly.

The thing that makes a paper overlay convincing is scale, not detail. Real paper tooth lives in a narrow band of sizes, with only a whisper of larger variation on top. Broadband noise reads as smoke — which is why so many texture overlays look like fog rather than paper.

Every texture here is deliberately band-limited to sit in that range, and every one tiles seamlessly in both directions, so 2048px covers any canvas at any size.

How to use one

Put it on a layer above your artwork, set it to Overlay or Soft Light, and drop the opacity to somewhere between 10 and 30 per cent. If you notice the texture before you notice the drawing, it is too strong.

Or try it the other way round: underneath, on Multiply, and paint on top with a textured brush. You get tooth your strokes catch on rather than a film laid over a finished picture.

What's included

• 8 drawing papers: cartridge in three tooths, bristol, toned sketch, newsprint
• 5 watercolour stocks: cold press fine to rough, handmade, hot press
• 4 canvas weaves: fine portrait linen to coarse, plus cotton duck
• 7 aged surfaces: crumpled paper, concrete, plaster, kraft, grunge, film grain
• All 2048x2048, seamless in both directions
• Guide: what makes an overlay work, how to apply one

Formats

• PNG (greyscale, 2048×2048 seamless)

Works with

• Photoshop
• Procreate
• Clip Studio Paint
• Krita
• Affinity Photo
• Blender
• Any app that opens PNG

Download: ZIP · 77 MB · 24 greyscale PNGs