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From The Brush Workshop

Fray Ray photoshop ink brush
 

Here are a few scribbles with the Fray Ray brush, a new ink brush I’m working on. It has a nice fine point taper but when you press hard it has jagged frayed edges. One of this brush’s features is that it has a varying translucency to it, as if the ink is not 100% opaque, or the brush may be loaded with a bit too much water. Drag the stylus a bit slower and you will get that dark full opacity but sketch quickly and you see those nice patches of translucency that suggest some excitement in your sketches, evidence of a frenzied wrist.

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Free GrutBrush #22 – ‘Dim Detritus’ Pastel Photoshop brush

painted with the 'Dim Detritus' Photoshop Pastel brush tool
Painting with the ‘Dim Detritus’ Pastel brush tool

This week’s free Photoshop brush, a grungey pastel brushAs always, you can download it for free until the end of this week (August 17th) when there will be yet another new free brush.

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

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Waters 02 – 10 more Photoshop Watercolor Brush Tools

Brush Strokes of all 10 Photoshop watercolour brushes in Waters 01 collection
Brush Strokes of all 10 Photoshop watercolour brushes in Waters 01 collection

Finally! The sequel to the popular Waters 1 collection is here and 10 more Photoshop watercolor brush tools are now available in one set for just $5. Sorry for the long wait but it takes a while to create a good watercolour brush. Get Waters 02 here or for an additional five you can buy all the sets (about 100 Photoshop brushes now!)  for just $10 That deal, (the “All Brushes collection” will be done very soon, probably by the end of August when the price and will be going up, and from then on, the premium single brushes will only be sold separately or as part of a membership There are now about 100 brushes in the set. Get it while it lasts. If you don’t have it yet, you can still get a free watercolor Photoshop brush tool from the Waters 01 set at the link below.

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Free GrutBrush # 20 – “Strewn Rue” Natural Media Brush

Drawn with the Strewn Rue Photoshop natural media brush
Drawn with the Strewn Rue natural media Photoshop brush

This week’s free Photoshop brush is what you would get if you could stuff charcoal into an aerosol can.

As always, you can download it for free until the end of this week (August 3rd) when there will be yet another new free brush.

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

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New Photoshop Watercolour Brush – “Sparrow Tone”

Painted with the 'Sparrow Tone' Photoshop watercolor brush
Painted with the ‘Sparrow Tone’ Photoshop watercolor brush

It’s been a little while, so I added a new watercolour Photoshop brush to the brush shop. This is the 20th watercolor brush so that means it’s time for a new set of 10 watercolor brush tools. Get ready for Waters 02 – coming soon!  If you can’t wait, this one’s available for $1 now

Sparrow Tone watercolour Brush:

grutbrushes.com/shop/photoshop-brushes/sparrow-tone-photoshop-watercolor-brush/

Waters 01 Collection:

grutbrushes.com/shop/photoshop-brush-collection/waters01-photoshop-watercolor-brushes/

 

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Free GrutBrush of the Week #19 – “Dusky Covet” Ink Brush

Drawn with the "Dusky Covet" Photoshop ink Brush
Drawn with the “Dusky Covet” Photoshop ink Brush

“why so many painting brushes? What about something for sketching?” Well, I’ve heard you Jann and others who’ve kindly sent me some lovely feedback. This week’s brush is for you who like nothing better than to draw sketch and doodle. Dusky Covet is a thin ink brush with a light start for sketching but deposits a lot of oily ink with some firmer pressure. The ink is viscous and wont ‘dry’ until you lift your stylus so you can shape it and mush it around a bit if you care to.

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 (July 27th) 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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New Charcoal brush “Ramp Braiser”

doodling with the Ramp Braiser Photoshop charcoal brush
doodling with the Ramp Braiser Photoshop charcoal brush

Following close on the heels of this week’s debut of the ‘Moss Potter’ charcoal brush, I’ve added a new charcoal brush to the brush shop. Ramp Braiser is a stark textured natural media brush with distinct spore pattern. Soft repeated strokes will render fuzzy shading while harder broad strokes leave a large-grained rough charcoal texture.

Video of drawing done using the 'Ramp Braiser' Photoshop Charcoal Brush downloadable toolset
Drawing with the ‘Ramp Braiser’ Photoshop Charcoal Brush toolset

 

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Free Photoshop Brush of the Week #18 – “Moss Potter” Charcoal Brush

Drawn with the 'Moss Potter' charcoal brush for Photoshop
Drawn in Photoshop with the ‘Moss Potter’ charcoal brush from GrutBrushes

This week’s free GrutBrush is a versatile charcoal brush with a wide tonal range. With a medium firm stroke this brush will give you a mid tone of about fifty percent coverage, press harder or double back on your stroke and you can fairly quickly get to an opaque full cover. Brush lightly to use it as a tonal sketching charcoal.

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 (July 20th) when there will be a new free brush.

grutbrushes.com/free-photoshop-brush-toolset-for-digital-artists/

*requires Photoshop CS 5.5 or higher and a pressure sensitive drawing tablet. free registration required to download.

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