A textured brush intended to imitate watercolor painting, but also to be able to do multiple kinds of painting: coloring, blending, shading.
The first and most basic of an enormous series I've made; I hope to eventually upload more but it's nearly the holidays and I'm getting busy, and my health isn't very good.
The series is intended to imitate watercolor painting with varying degrees of accuracy. This first brush is one that tries to do most things acceptably well, so it is mostly usable by itself with no other brushes.
It's best at laying down color with a nice juicy texture, or putting washes on top of existing color. It puts down color moderately strongly, though not completely opaque, when there's none already on the layer.
If there is color already there, though, it's much weaker. In both cases it will build to a good mass tone, but in the case of pre-existing color it will tend to build to something that's a mix of the brush color and what's already there.
A few minor points:
- There will eventually be a paid version of this brush, either here or on my own page. That one will have a high-resolution texture and four randomized brush tip images instead of just one.
- The brush blurs what's already there, so it will remove some texture from pre-existing color. Sometimes this is good, sometimes it's annoying.
- It uses a spray style for the tip, with number tied to pressure. Sometimes if you're moving the pen very fast at low pressure, it'll break apart into individual spots of color. If that annoys you, please slow down.
- If you put color down near pre-existing color, sometimes it will pick up that color even if the brush isn't touching. I can't do anything about that; it's a CSP thing.
- The brush size is tied to the tilt, but the spray tip is not. This means the spray gets tighter and tighter as the stylus gets more vertical, giving a cleaner edge.
- However, the overall sizes are linked, so scaling the brush with the brush size palette or menu commands works as expected.
- The difference between the behavior when there's color there and not means that if you're using this as your primary brush, the feel to it is pretty different depending on whether you fill an area first and then paint details on it, or whether you just jump straight in with an empty layer. I think it's nicer when there's already color but I like very subtle shading.
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