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GrutBrushes Brush Stroke Guide Cheat Sheet Now available!

Download cheat sheet for all GrutBrushes Photoshop brushes
The GrutBrushes Photoshop brush stroke guide is here!

You can now see hand drawn brush strokes representative of every single Photoshop brush by downloading the brush stroke reference guide from the new ‘resources‘ section on GrutBrushes.com  It’s available to download as either a JPG or PDF (It’s a tall image, so be sure to zoom in!) Or view the online version where you can hover over a brush stroke and see it up close with a magnifier window.

There are more guides on the way, including a detailed brush stroke sampler for each brush that shows a standard variety of brush stroke drills. Inspired by the excellent real media brush reviews by  Teoh Yi Chie of Parka Blogs who turns reviewing art supplies into an art form of it’s own.

Of course, the best way to preview the brushes is still to click the play icon on each brush in the shop and watch it drawing ‘live’ in front of your eyes. But I hope the one page catalogs will be a useful visual references when you are looking through your list of GrutBrushes or just need some inspiration.

GrutBrushes Brush Stroke Guides:
grutbrushes.com/photoshop-brush-strokes-guides/

GrutBrushes Online Brush Stroke Reference
grutbrushes.com/photoshop-brushes-online-catalog/

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2 New Cross Hatching Brushes Added to Hatchers 01

10 Cross Hatching brushes for Photoshop
New total of 10 Cross Hatching brushes for Photoshop in Hatchers 01 set

This Week I added two new cross hatching brushes to the store. Hatch Acid and Hatch Blanket. This brings to 10 the total number of cross hatching brushes in the Hatchers 01 brush set. This was my first brush set on GrutBrushes and has always been the least expensive. Now that it has 10 brushes in it like the all the others I’ve decided not to raise but to lower it and offer it for $3. You can download one for free if you use the coupon code freehatch when you checkout.

As always, for an additional $7 you can get all 90 Photoshop GrutBrushes! This price will be going up soon. The total amount of brushes in the collection will soon be hitting 100 and I will be changing the pricing on the site, but with that I will offer some new options including a very affordable ‘all you can eat’ membership option which will soon include a Photoshop CC plugin to help you better use and organise your GrutBrushes.

You can get all 10 of the Cross Hatching Brushes in Hatchers 01 for $3 here

 

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New Brush Browser on GrutBrushes.com

How to use the Photoshop brush browser
How to use the Photoshop brush browser

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!

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Animated Tribute to Mad Max:Fury Road (featuring a GrutBrush!)

Still frame from an animated tribute to "Mad Max:Fury Road" by Pablo Fernández Eyre
Still frame from animated tribute to “Mad Max:Fury Road” by Pablo Fernández Eyre

Using his talent, a lot of patience and the Dense Weather Photoshop oil paint brush from GrutBrushes, Filmmaker Pablo Fernandez Eyre created this animated tribute to Mad Max:Fury Road. You can Watch it here on Vimeo and you can learn more about Pablo on his website whosipablo.com Continue reading Animated Tribute to Mad Max:Fury Road (featuring a GrutBrush!)

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Free GrutBrush of the Week #09 “Gathers Chaff” Natural Media Brush

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Gathers Chaff Photoshop Ink Brush.
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drawn with the Gathers Chaff Photoshop Ink Brush
drawn with the Gathers Chaff Photoshop Ink Brush
A very crunchy dry ink brush with a rough speckled edge texture and a sparse dry-bush cover at low pressure. With a fairly wide breadth this brush makes a good sketching brush.[/twocol_one_last]

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 (May 17) when there will be a new free brush.

Photoshop digital artists ink brush

Painted Wth Gathers Chaff Photoshop Brush
Painted with Gathers Chaff Photoshop specialist brush

 

*Requires Photoshop cs5.5 or higher and a pressure sensitive graphics tablet. Free registration required to download.

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Free GrutBrush of the Week #08 “Soggy Tail” Natural Media Brush

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'Soggy Tail' Photoshop Natural Media Brush for digital artists
‘Soggy Tail’ Photoshop Natural Media Brush for digital artists
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Brush strokes of a digital painting done using the Natural Media Brush toolset 'Soggy Tail' for digital artists
Brush strokes of the Natural Media Brush toolset ‘Soggy Tail’ for digital artists
A cloudy-textured brush which starts out as a soft shader with light stylus pressure but ends up very opaque at the highest pressure. The Soggy Tail natural media brush has the look of a watercolour and even bleeds a bit into the paper at its edges if you hold it almost steady in a spot, but has the opacity of an oil pastel.[/twocol_one_last]

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 (May 11) 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.

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Free GrutBrush of the Week #07 “Gallic Whey” Oil Brush

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'Gallic Whey' Photoshop Oil Brush for digital artists
‘Gallic Whey’ Photoshop Oil Brush for digital artists
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Brush strokes of a digital oil painting done using the Oil Brush toolset 'Gallic Whey' for digital artists
digital oil painting brush strokes created with the ‘Gallic Whey’ Oil Brush toolset 
A soft oil brush with a fairly wide opacity range and a medium amount of range in width from minimum to maximum stylus pressure. At low pressure, this brush has a more dilute fill than some of the other more pasty opaque oil brushes which makes it a more subtle tone brush but still with the signature oily blotchiness and at the highest pressure it has a sharp crisp edge.[/twocol_one_last]

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 (May 3) 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.

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“Roadside Tip” a new Charcoal brush

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Natural Media Photoshop brush
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drawing with the Roadside Tip Photoshop natural media brush
New in the store today, Roadside Tip is a rough granular charcoal which starts with a powdery coverage at the lightest pressure and moves into a wetter, almost oily grit fill at higher pressure. Though the square shaped tip scales with pressure this brush is best suited to broad gestural sketches or strong tonal blocking.[/twocol_one_last] Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmail
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Free Brush of the Week #05 “Slither Dew”

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Slither Dew Photoshop Watercolor Brush. A realistic, responsive, watercolour brush for digital artists.
Slither Dew Photoshop Watercolor Brush. A realistic, responsive, watercolour brush for digital artists.
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Painting with the Slither Dew Photoshop Watercolor Brush
Painting with the Slither Dew Photoshop Watercolor Brush
This week’s free Photoshop brush is a soft grainy watercolour brush with a cloudy form and a texture that accentuates a grainy and fibrous weathered medium. This brush has a farily strong presence but with a light touch of the stylus can also be used for more subtle shading.[/twocol_one_last]

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.

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