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Preview of New Pastel Brush – coming soon

Drawn with the Wax Factor Photoshop Pastel Brush
Drawn with the Wax Factor Photoshop Pastel Brush

Here’s a sneak peek at the latest Photoshop Brush I’m working it’s a pastel brush (or crayon if we’re being honest) it’s called Wax Factor, and I’m already in love with it. It’s very fast, has a nice full texture when you draw with light strokes but with a bit more pressure easily fills in and gives rich full colour coverage. I will probably give away a hundred of these for free the day I publish it so stay tuned.

Update: It’s now available and FREE for this weekend (Until November 11th 2014) Download this brush here.

One interesting feature of this brush is that when you press hard it has a rough texture, but with very light pressure it becomes a blending brush and you can use it to smudge and soften your strokes or blend them together without switching tools.

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Beta Test email submission form

Beta Testing is OPEN – Photoshop CC only

Hi and thanks for coming!

Please use this contact form to send me an email letting me know what version of Photoshop CC you are using and what version your OS is. I will use the email you enter here to get in touch to send you a link to download the plugin via email.

Thanks!

– Nicolai

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Using Multiple Watercolour Brushes

Painted using 3 different digital watercolor brushes
Painted using 3 different digital watercolor brushes

Sometimes one brush will do for the whole painting but other pieces call for multiple brushes. The colour in this painting was done using the bolder Paste Up and Grape Remains for the hair and for the subtler more even tone of the background I used the Moth Wing brush. For shading I used the Ocean Liner brush with a reduced opacity so that I could go over and build up darker areas slowly and also for the clothing I used Lofty Tinge which has more texture. To get some more texture and drama into the background I added some of the more saturated orangey bits using the Paste Up brush again, this time with a much larger brush size, about double what I used on the hair.

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Win 30 Realistic, Responsive Photoshop Brushes for Digital Artists

Win every single Photoshop brush in the store, currently 30 brushes and counting.

 

Win 30 realistic natural media Photoshop brushes for digital painters and illustrators Win 30 realistic natural media Photoshop brushes for digital painters and illustrators

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Enter your email address (sign up for the mailing list) and get a chance to win the whole set of digital artists brushes, currently 30 with more added almost every week.

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Loosest Digital Oil Paint Brush Yet

Painted with the Mount Relief digital oil Paintbrush for Photoshop
Painted with the Mount Relief digital oil Paintbrush for Photoshop

My latest Photoshop oil paintbrush ‘Mount relief‘ is probably the loosest of the oil brushes (although you could say that it’s more of an acrylic)  I love painting with it as it is very expressive and has a very controllable flow from rough and scratchy to a rich fill depending on how hard you press.
As often on brush release day, today’s free Photoshop brush (today only – 09/06) Get it here: https://www.grutbrushes.com/shop/photoshop-brushes/mount-relief-photoshop-oil-brush/

After that it will be available as a single paid download and also as part of the all Photoshop brushes package.

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