This week’s free Photoshop brush, a grungey pastel brush. As 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.
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/
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
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:
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!)
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.
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.
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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 (April 26) 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.
