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Published: 2013-09-30 23:22:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 17327; Favourites: 225; Downloads: 3427
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Eight brushes that look kind of foliagy, cloudy, marbly, hedgy, whatever. You can see what they look like in action as a regular swipe in the preview. These brushes are FREE for personal and commercial or whatever you feel like use, except I ask that you don't redistribute them. The brush images are included in the zip, as well as a readme explaining my terms of use. I don't have a lot of terms. You don't have to credit or link to me or let me know, just have fun with the brushes. If you make new brushes for another program you can post them on here if you credit this pack and let me know so I can link it from this pack--I always get asked for Gimp/etc/brushes. If you want to credit me, credit my graphic novel, www.stargazersgate.com. Or just check it out, that's all the thanks I need.Now go and make some art.
This set is for Photoshop, made in CS2. It does rely on scatter effects so it might not work as well for other programs if you make a new set.
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What are the max sizes of your brushes, if you don't mind my asking?
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I have no idea. I made them in 2013 and no longer use Photoshop for the purpose of painting. I can tell you I never standardized their size, I figure they're not big, maybe 500 pixels wide. Eyeball it to decide if you think it's too low res for your project?
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Ah thank you for the prompt reply! 500 certainly isn't the smallest I've worked with--thanks so much!
Out of curiosity; what do you use now?
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Clip Studio Paint, for everything that isn't layout work, vectors or typography. I do mostly maps now, and I do all of the illustrations in CSP because the brush system is much more elaborate and also has auto-stabilization, allowing me to hand-letter if needed, and ink much smoother than I used to. 
It often goes on sale for like $20 and I highly recommend it as an illustrating program, while it's targeted to comic/manga art, it's incredibly powerful for the price. Buy or make good brushes for it and you can do amazing fine art mimickry. I haven't released any CSP brushes yet because I haven't successfully completed a set I'd like to release, but I actually bought two people's brushes and use them all the time.
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Ahhh yaassss~! I've recently been into CSP as well. Entirely for lining at the moment though. Occassionally base colors or fiddling with some of the water-color like ones as those are close to what I like working with otherwise. I'm not anywhere close to jumping the Photoshop Ship though as too many of my favorite brush packs don't exist elsewhere.
Wish I'd known about the sales though pfft. That said $45 wasn't even that bad!
Thank you again for taking the time to reply!
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Photoshop brushes can be remade in Clip if you wanted to make them. It's not convenient, but how many of those brushes do you really use...? For me, the answer was "like, all of them" at one point, I used SO MANY brushes. So like you, I linearted and base colored in Clip when I first got it (because if you're not using auto-flat you should use Clip because it has the ability to ignore few-pixel sized holes in lineart, so you can duplicate and use the paint bucket tool for almost everything if you set it up right) and then I brought it over to Photoshop to shade and put stamps on.Β
I began to question about shading in Photoshop, whether it was really better or if it was that I was used to it? I realized the answer was "I don't have a shading brush in Clip that I like the feel of" so I bought some brush sets with extensive collections of natural media mimicking brushes and got myself used to shading. I never use their default brushes anymore, except for one, the watercolor smudge brush. For a while I was still bringing over to Photoshop use my stamps, but then I asked myself if I was just using stamps as a crutch and thereby preventing my lineart skills from strengthening. Now I only use map stamps on request (some of my clients want that specific look of the specific map set I designed though). It was a bit of a process to switch over, certainly not overnight. Even right now at this very moment, I have both programs open, Clip because I'm watercolor shading a parchment style map and Photoshop because I just got finished resizing an icon for someone on a forum.
My shading in Clip is... different. There are things about shading in Photoshop I miss, but I know it's because it was habit, not actually a better workflow. I actually use the smudge tool (specifically the soft watercolor one) in Clip in almost every project... I never touched it in Photoshop. And I use the same 3 oil brushes for SO much now. >_____> And a couple of dithering brushes which give a nice spray. I guess when I switched to Clip I stopped making brush sets. I intend to release a Clip set at some point in the future since I have made a handful of my own that I find useful, but I haven't gotten anything that's really thematic yet, only a half a dozen different shading and effect ribbons.
Blathering about this reminds me that I still haven't transferred my old Photoshop painting brush I used for almost everything to Clip, even though I could. But ugh, painting for myself, that's something that almost never happens now... I suppose that's why.
I think they're both worth having, to work in unison. I mean, $45 at full price for Clip is a steal for the amount of money I've made with it... I have nothing but respect for that company for making their software affordable (lookin' at YOU, Adobe). The least I can do is talk it up. XD
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Ah thank you again for such a detailed reply! I'd love to get to all of it but the past few weeks have been a chaotic nightmare... I just didn't want you think I was ignorin' ya.
You don't happen to have videos showing your process anywhere by chance? Hearing you speak so passionately really has me curious~!
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I have no videos showing my process, although I just put up the progress shots for a recent dungeon map on my portfolio page.Β feedthemultiverse.com/2019/01/β¦
And no worries, I am not a dependable reliable replier to messages myself and take no personal offense to anyone existing in their life over talking to me.
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*heart* Rad as heck.
And saaaammmeeee.
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Thank you for providing these. Used hereΒ Β
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You're welcome. I hope you can find some use for them.
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they look beautiful hon! I love anything that adds texture to a painting
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