Recycled textures

One downside of working digitally is sacrificing exciting accidents and flaws that give life to a traditional piece. If part of my painting starts looking lifeless, I’ll borrow line art from an older piece to add texture and depth. Here, I enhance the sky by copy/pasting my recycled pencils into a Multiply layer, erasing to lose the edges and colourising (using the Adjustments>Hue/Saturation dialog) to blend seamlessly with my colour scheme.