She Sings From Somewhere You Can’t See

I’ve been experimenting with making my own custom brushes. You can pretty much make anything a custom brush, if’n you want, and so I’ve been making me some handy foliage and texturing brushes. I started off by painting a greyscale painting on a white background…and painting it fairly largely. These brushes are all from approximately 350 pixels minimum size to 700 pixels. (So I can scale to whatever I want.)

I recommend not filling your brush all the way to the edges. Leave some ragged edges for better foliage. (With the brick brushes, I leave scatter and shape dynamics off, and sorta paint swathes of brickiness, and try to fill in the gaps later with other brick brushes I’ve made. If I wanted really uniform bricks, I wouldn’t use a brush at all but just make a straight up pattern.)

Select all, then head to Edit > Define Brush Preset. Voila! A brush. Open the brushes Palette to toy with scatter and angle jitter and dual brushes. So much fun. Also kinda relaxing to make the initial brushes.

Mostly, I’m just sharing the ones I’ve made recently. If you want a fun brush tutorial, I recommend Linda Bergkvist’s brush tutorial.