Question about digital brushes.
3yr
Alexey Skliar
I want to start a thread about digital brushes and the ways one can use them in most efficient way. I know that people say you can draw with simple round brush but in my expirience using right brush for specific things helps you tramendesly in your work . In this studies i used sargent sketcher brush,that i found in wesley gardener's brush pack, for blocking in and some random soft brush with a bit of texture for smooth gradient transition. . I liked surgent sketcher brush right away and i deffenetly will use it more in the future. Over time i gethered collection of my favorite brushes for different use cases.
So what brushes you like to use? How and when exectly(in what paticular stages of painting) you like to use them?
I see below that you mostly use Photoshop. If you haven't tried the mixer brush yet, I highly recommend it. If you tweak the settings, you can get it so it doesn't put any color down, but just mixes the colors below and adds texture. You can do it on a separate layer, which lets you play around without fear of messing things up.
When I use an approach like this, it lets me worry less about the brushes I'm using up front, and lets me really experiment and have fun.
Hi Tim. I tried out mixed brush a couple of times but wasnt really happy with the result. I know you can do some good stuff with it. Maybe as you say need to play around with the settings.
On Krita, I always use Rough Bristles(Wet) and round wet paint(both default brushes)—I like the way rough bristles act like thick oil paint and when you pull the paint away to spread it gives very nice textures when it comes to small forms or highlights. Round wet paint is good for shaping up, though there are other detail brushes that can do it better, But I find it more preferable to get good at two or three brushes than try to use all of them. It can get quite messy.
For Clip studio, the default pencils and oil/water color brushes are amazing. Especially pencils when I don't have(like right now) any money to buy the sketchbook for the month. they do the same work with near similar feel. The online downloadable brushes are amazing too, and I use a lot of the watercolor ones for sketching and painting the base colors to get a feel for the overall shape.
When it comes to finishing touches, I feel like square brushes are a better option. Round ones for highlights; for anything else like small curves, squeezed forms, reflections, merging light or whatever comes to mind. It just has a better feel, though I can't really put on a finger why.
Hi Taha. I can't realy relate to the programs you mentioned becouse i never used them i use photoshop. But i can i magine that they all have similarities. I also love oil like hard burshes although there are many different once. Wet brushes i don't use much they have watercolor like feeling but i guess if you play with setting a bit you can tweek them for your purpurse. I have one in my favorites with wet ages and i use it now and then for smooth transition of values. I use square brush with no opacity mainly for scetching concepts. I wanted to try krita and color paint but so far trying to learn photoshop and some 3d programs like blender and 3d coat.
