Engraving layer

As a final touch I like to add crosscontour engraving lines throughout my image. It’s a fun, stylistic technique that adds subtle textural variations and rewards viewers who examine my art up close. I create a new layer with blending mode set to a Overlay at 30 per cent Opacity. Using my Angled Pencil brush set to white or pale orange, I etch delicate lines to play up the face, hands, or anywhere else that needs some extra texture.