Year: 2015
Free GrutBrush of the Week #06 “Thyme Liner” Felt Pen
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As always, you can download it from the shop or the member’s free Photoshop brush page for free until the end of this week (April 26) when there will be a new free brush.
*Requires Photoshop cs5.5 or higher and a pressure sensitive graphics tablet. Free registration required to download.
Free Brush of the Week #05 “Slither Dew”
As always, you can download it from the shop or the member’s free Photoshop brush page for free until the end of this week (April 19) when there will be a new free brush.
Free Brush of the Week #04 “Wool Meander”
A grainy charcoal type Photoshop brush with a fairly wide range in both width and coverage. At the lightest pressure this brush is capable of very light, fine-grained middling width sketch line and even at medium pressure can be quite a versatile shader brush, capable of a wide range of tones. At full pressure you get a harsh, fully opaque line with a large grain and a crumbly edge.
Get it for free until April 12th 2015
This week’s free Brush – Brash Mass
Brash Mass Natural Media Brush. A bold, robust brush with broad cover and a strong unambiguous graphic presence. In a manner unique to digital brushes this ink-like brush has ultra-sharp crisp aliased edges while displaying a base texture more reminiscent of softer media like pastel. Although you can get a fairly sparse grainy cover at low pressure this brush quickly goes to full opacity with minimal pressure making it best for broad, confident graphic strokes.
Log in and download it now Free until April 5 2015
Announcing ‘Free Brush of the Week (or so)’ Page
As a member (signup/login for free) you can now download a new free brush every week on the free brush of the week page as well as on the home page. I will confess now that I don’t know if I can always meet that schedule, sometimes a good brush takes a little longer, that’s why I’m referring to it as the free brush of the week ‘(or so)‘
If you miss it for free each brush will move to the store where you can always purchase it and a new free brush will take it’s place.
Without further ado, here is the first free brush! Continue reading Announcing ‘Free Brush of the Week (or so)’ Page
Anatomy of a Digital Watercolor Brush
What is it that gives a brush it’s personality? It’s a combination of your style, how your fingers move and the brush itself. Just as you have a unique way of moving your wrist to create lines, each brush has it’s own unique stylistic signatures. Whether it’s a few stray bristles, the way it holds or releases water, oil, paint and pigment, or simply how slowly or quickly it tapers from a point to a blob, if at all. All these quirks and characteristics add up to give a brush it’s personality.
The same holds true for a good digtal artists’s brush. In this visual dissection I’ve attempted to draw attention to some of the the characteristics unique to the ‘Paste Up’ Photoshop watercolour brush, some of the most prominent features that add up to create the signature look of it’s strokes.
This is just one of 63 (and growing) brushes in the growing collection of pressure responsive Photoshop brushes for digital artists from Grutbrushes.com
Watercolor Paper Background
I get quite a few requests to share the backgrounds in my demos. I do plan to release a set of seamless papers, canvases, cards and other backdrops for digital artists. It’s in the works I promise, but in the meantime, here’s the watercolour paper used in many of my digital painting brush demo videos. Continue reading Watercolor Paper Background
Papaya Grind – A Responsive Photoshop Pastel Brush
[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]‘Papaya Grind’ Photoshop Oil pastel Brush.A thick starchy oilk pastel brush with a fine clingy texture and a fadeable edge. With a very fine tip at light stylus pressure it also spreads to a wider tip and comes on relatively strongly with slightly heavier pressure, though it still requires a few passes to cover your image surface completely.[button link=”https://www.grutbrushes.com/cart/?add-to-cart=44452″]Add to Cart – Free[/button]Free download ends 03/06[/twocol_one_last]