Nicolai Grut

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

Free Photoshop Brush of the Week #13 “Flux Ebber” Ink Brush

digital ink drawing painted with the 'Flux Ebber' Photoshop ink brush — Painted with the ‘Flux Ebber‘ Photoshop ink brush

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'Flux Ebber' Photoshop Ink Brush for digital artists — ‘Flux Ebber’ Photoshop Ink Brush for digital artists

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Brush strokes of a digital ink drawing done using the Ink Brush toolset 'Flux Ebber' for digital artists — Brush strokes of a digital ink drawing done using the Ink Brush toolset ‘Flux Ebber’ for digital artists

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If you’ve ever used a palette knife to spread printer’s ink on a palette or a plate of glass this brush may feel familiar to you. Flux Ebber is a tremendously wet, heavily loaded ink brush that quickly covers with opaque ink but can be wiped off and ‘squeegied’ around as long as you don’t lift your stylus which effectively dries the stroke. The brush is lightly weighted to one edge to give it slight directional characteristics.

As always, you can download this brush for free until the end of this week (June 15th) when there will be yet another new free brush.

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

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!)

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

Free Photoshop Brush of the Week #11 “Lip Reader” Ink Brush

“Lip Reader” is a rough edged Photoshop ink brush with a wide ranging width. At the lowest pressure this brush gives an intermittent spotty line and at maximum pressure it has a wide line with a subtle but visible wet, bleeding edge that borders a ragged contour. This brush is a line brush but as you see here, you can also use it at a much larger size than it is designed for to block in larger areas of colour. By setting a lyer to ‘Multiply’ it can also behave more like a watercolour brush.

As always, you can download it for free until the end of this week (June 15th) when there will be yet another new free brush.

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Brush strokes of a digital drawing done using the Ink Brush toolset 'Lip Reader' for digital artists — Brush strokes of the Photoshop Ink Brush toolset ‘Lip Reader’ for digital artists

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Posted on May 22, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

Sketching With GrutBrushes – “Brief Reprieve”

Painting with the Brief Reprieve Photoshop digital paintbrush

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

Drawing with Multiple Photoshop Brushes

I do so many doodles and demos demonstrating one particular brush but the real fun comes when you use multiple brushes, each with it’s own strengths and personalities. This sketch uses 3 different brushes, Gulf Stream, a broad ranged responsive ink brush, Linoleum Roll, a wide grungy textured brush and Lazy Fair, a whispy ink brush with visible bristle marks.

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

Free Photoshop Brush of the Week #10 “Mid Yewer” Charcoal Brush

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"Mid Yewer" Charcoal Brush for Photoshop — “Mid Yewer” Charcoal Brush for Photoshop

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Brush strokes of a digital drawing done using the Oil Brush toolset 'Mid Yewer' for digital artists — Brush strokes done using the Charcoal Brush toolset ‘Mid Yewer’ for digital artists

A sharp fine grained charcoal brush with a fairly wide range of coverage fom light to dark. This round-tipped charcoal brush starts with a fine grain at low texture and though it’s width is fairly fixed it has a darker slightly thicker grain at full stylus pressure.[/twocol_one_last]

As always, you can download it from the brush shop or the member’s free Photoshop brush page for free until the end of this week (May 24) when there will be a new free brush.

Drawing done with the Mid Yewer Photoshop Charcoal Brush. A realistic, responsive, charcoal Brush for digital artists. — Drawn with the “Mid Yewer” Photoshop Charcoal Brush.

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

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

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

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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.

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.

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

Looking for Brush plugin Beta Testers

Want to test an exciting new plugin/extension for digital artists? I’m looking for digital artists to be beta testers for a GrutBrushes extension. If you have Photoshop CC 2014 or later (PC or MAC) and a graphics tablet (wacom, huion, monoprice, etc) and would like to try out this plugin just send me an email with the subject “GB Beta test” and I will be selecting about a dozen beta testers over the next few days at random. If you are selected I will send you the plugin and a bunch of brushes and all I ask in return is for you to let me know what you think of the plugin and give me some feedback on how you would improve it. I will let you know by email if you have been selected .

Nicolai
info@grutbrushes.com

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

A Peek into the Workshop

drawing with the Rooster Suit Photoshop paint brush — Getting the textures right can make make a digital brush ‘feel’ nice.

Here’s a sketch using a brush Im working on. I’m enjoying this one a lot, but I’m just trying to get the medium texture right before I release it to the shop. The brush behaves like an oil paint or pastel, but the low end range acts more like a watercolour. Although it’s all digital and real world rules can be ignored, if a brush has relatively close equivalents in real natural media it’s a bit jarring when it veers off into other media too quickly.

It can be a bit too dissonant, like awkward notes or unusual timing in music. When it’s off enough though, and the look you are going for bears little to no resemblance to anything in the real world there is a lot of room for digital brushes to be as quirky as you want them to be.