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Free Photoshop Brush of the Week #17 – “Yodel On” Gouache Brush

Free Photoshop Brush of the Week #17 'Yodel On' Photoshop Gouache brush

This week’s free GrutBrush is Yodel On, an opaque gouache brush with a very wide range in width and generous tapering. This brush has a relatively steady line with middling pressure but shows increasingly dispersed bristle texture at the lower and higher pressures until it bursts free into expressive grainy splotchiness at full stylus pressure.

As always, you can download it from the shop or the free Photoshop brush page for free until the end of this week (July 13th) when there will be a new free brush.

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

Download the free Photoshop Brush of the Week from GrutBrushes:
grutbrushes.com/free-photoshop-brush-toolset-for-digital-artists/

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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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Free GrutBrush of the Week #16 – Owl Flower ink Brush

Painted with the Owl Flower brush

This week’s free Photoshop brush is “Owl Flower” A feathered edge ink brush with a slightly variable width and opacity. The thin tapered crystal offshoots from the base stroke extend out to double the width of this stroke and give it a bulk while maintaining a light downy appearance

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 5th) when there will be a new free brush.

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

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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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Painting with mixed media brushes in Photoshop

Painted in Photoshop with 4 GrutBrushes
Painted in Photoshop with 4 GrutBrushes

Mixing media in Photoshop. This was painted with four GrutBrushes;  the PasteUp watercolour brush, Splatter Reed ink brush and two natural media brushes, Wren’s Tendril and Poster Parched. All these brushes can be found in the brush shop

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Free GrutBrush of the Week #15 “Lint Filter” Watercolor Brush

Brush strokes of a watercolor painting done using the Watercolor Brush toolset 'Lint Filter' for digital artists
Watercolor painting with the Watercolor Brush toolset ‘Lint Filter’ for digital artists

This week’s free brush is a grainy watercolor brush that has a lot of splattery texture when applied with repeated short strokes. Lift your stylus between each stroke to maintain maximum speckling or maintain contact to clean up the stray ink spots a little.

As always, you can download it from the free Photoshop brush page until the end of this week (June 28) when there will be a new free brush.

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Free GrutBrush of the week #14 – “Razor Strap” Photoshop oil Paint Brush

Free grutbrush of the week #14 - Free Photoshop oil paint brush
Free grutbrush of the week #14 – Free Photoshop oil paint brush
Painting done with the Razor Strap Photoshop Oil Brush. A realistic, responsive, Oil Paint Brush for digital artists.
Painting with the Razor Strap Photoshop Oil Brush.

This week’s free brush is a contoured oil brush with thick if broken up coverage at full pressure it has a lighter wetter coverage at low pressure with traces of pigment deposits amongst the medium toned turpentine like wash.

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 (June 22) when there will be a new free brush.

Update (June 21) Anyone who downloaded after Thursday and got a corrupted zip file (so sorry!) please try re-downloading it here. I will keep this brush free here through Tuesday the 23rd:

Download BrushFREE!...for now

 

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