Tag: brushes

your art is really great!! I was wondering which brushes you liked to use? Or if you had any tutorials/knew any for inking? thanks!!

gwyndor:

thanks a bunch! I don’t know any solid inking tutorials or have any super great advice (I tend to just colour sketches or tidy them up vs full on inking). when I intend to actually ink my sketch tends to be pretty rough because I dont enjoy having to stick to a meticulous predetermined sketch. sometimes ill work straight off a tiny upsized thumbnail. if an area proves hard to line from that ill just refine the sketch. 

the trick to inking digitally, in my opinion, is to lay lines in single confident strokes! throw them down swiftly and smoothly, and dont be afraid to poise over that ctrl+z and go for a line 20 times.

’swift and smooth’ depend of course on how your brush handles and you need to figure out the right balance for a given brush, but it’s not as annoying as it seems and its a big payoff.

brush wise, some of my settings are already in my faq so feel free to nab some more there, but I don’t mind doing another take and going over ones I currently use.

basically the only brush I use in PS is stumpy pencil. (there’s one airbrush I use for soft accents like flush on skin but it’s just a default soft brush) sometimes i change the opacity or turn on wet edges but that’s all. that’s this brush:

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I don’t draw complete stuff much anymore in SAI! but I have a few more brushes I use there.

I like to use just a default pen tool with size and density by pressure switched off. when i need to colour i just flip size pressure back on:

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a little softer is a plain drawing brush which I sometimes use for gentler sketching than the pen or harder shading than the brush to follow this one:

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last one is so similar it hardly is worth a second mention, but. I’m fairly certain these are examples of things drawn mostly with it. its for a bit softer colouring:

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