As always, you can download it on the free Photoshop brush page at GrutBrushes.com/freebrush
Free GrutBrush of the Week #27 – Vole Tractor Photoshop Oil Brush
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New Photoshop Charcoal Brush Set Out Now
And then there were ten! to celebrate the 10th charcoal brush toolset in the shop (16th really, if you include the other natural media charcoal-ish brushes) I’m offering them all as part of the collection Charcoals 01 for $4 (on sale for $2 through this weekend) All of these are free to anyone who purchased the All Brushes Sets in the last 30 days.
Free GrutBrush of the week #26 – ‘Bay Kessle’ Photoshop Charcoal Brush
I’ve given away a different brush every week now for 6 months straight! To celebrate…here’s a down to earth food old charcoal brush (hey, they can’t all be groundbreakers) As always, you can download this week’s brush at GrutBrushes.com/freebrush
Free GrutBrush of the Week #24 “Keen Downy” charcoal Photoshop brush
This week’s free Photoshop brush is a soft and fluffy charcoal brush. You can get it now on the free brush page https://www.grutbrushes.com/freebrush
How to get ‘Painter’ Oil Paint Brush look in Photoshop
Well, you can’t import Corel Painter brushes into Photoshop but I couldn’t accept that I couldn’t get that lovely natural(ish) impasto oil look in Photoshop. It took me a long time, but I think it was worth it as I managed to create a Photoshop oil brush that looks and behaves very much like my favourite Painter flat camel hair oil brush. It’s so much fun to use and the oil appears to ‘stay wet’ like real oil paints so you can smush it around until you get the brush strokes you’re looking just so (watch me softening the height of the strokes in the middle here) With a light touch it gives a semi translucent diluted oil but the harder you press, the more impasto texture shows up – Full pressure gives you thick oil paint, light pressure, a light wash, in between you can use it as a blender. This brush seen here is called “Brief Shona”
Though this video is zoomed in about 150%, it is a real-time painting and I am using only one oil brush, at one size (no blender brushes are used, all blending is done with the same brush by varying stylus pressure. I’m nowhere near finished with impasto, I have another dozen or so similar brushes in the workshop that will probably take a while to tweak before they are ready for unveiling but in the meantime you can see this one in the shop here.
As usual, this brush is free to anyone who purchased the All Brushes set in the last 30 days. Just log into your account and you can ‘buy’ it for $0. This may be the last brush available in the All Brushes deal as it will become the ‘All Sets’ collection very soon and premium single brushes will only be free to subscribing members. There’s no membership available yet, so grab the All Brushes collection until then, there will be a discount for previous purchases.
New Brush Browser on GrutBrushes.com
You can now browse all GrutBrushes Photoshop brushes in a sortable ajax grid with the newest listed first. It’s now faster (no more loading next page) It’s also responsive now, so it’s viewable on more devices and screen sizes. Click the red play button on any brush and see a video brush stroke preview of what it’s like to draw with it in real time! In the top right you can see which sets that brush is a part of and if you want to see and read more about that brush just click on the button in the top left and a new tab opens with more detailed previews and if available, example paintings and drawings done with that brush!
Visit the shop and have a look!
Coming very soon (this weekend?) – Downloadable PDF catalog!
Free Photoshop Brush of the Week #13 “Flux Ebber” Ink Brush
If you’ve ever used a palette knife to spread printer’s ink on a palette or a plate of glass this brush may feel familiar to you. Flux Ebber is a tremendously wet, heavily loaded ink brush that quickly covers with opaque ink but can be wiped off and ‘squeegied’ around as long as you don’t lift your stylus which effectively dries the stroke. The brush is lightly weighted to one edge to give it slight directional characteristics.
As always, you can download this brush for free until the end of this week (June 15th) when there will be yet another new free brush.
Free Photoshop Brush of the Week #11 “Lip Reader” Ink Brush
“Lip Reader” is a rough edged Photoshop ink brush with a wide ranging width. At the lowest pressure this brush gives an intermittent spotty line and at maximum pressure it has a wide line with a subtle but visible wet, bleeding edge that borders a ragged contour. This brush is a line brush but as you see here, you can also use it at a much larger size than it is designed for to block in larger areas of colour. By setting a lyer to ‘Multiply’ it can also behave more like a watercolour brush.
As always, you can download it for free until the end of this week (June 15th) when there will be yet another new free brush.
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Drawing with Multiple Photoshop Brushes
I do so many doodles and demos demonstrating one particular brush but the real fun comes when you use multiple brushes, each with it’s own strengths and personalities. This sketch uses 3 different brushes, Gulf Stream, a broad ranged responsive ink brush, Linoleum Roll, a wide grungy textured brush and Lazy Fair, a whispy ink brush with visible bristle marks.
