After I completed the image of Apnea - The Knife Thrower's Assistant, I realized the target looked previously unused. It needed a history of knife impacts. After trying to place impact holes manually, I realized I could create a Photoshop brush to scatter the holes around.
I used a stock Photoshop 'sponge' brush squeezed into a slit shape. I turned the scatter way up, and introduced some random rotation. Finally I added some noise and additional image processing to the scatter cloud to give some degree of unique shape to each impact hole, so they wouldn't all look essentially identical.
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