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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.

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

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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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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:

 

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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.

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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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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.

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

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Gathers Chaff Photoshop Ink Brush.
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drawn with the Gathers Chaff Photoshop Ink Brush
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.

Photoshop digital artists ink 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.

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Free GrutBrush of the Week #08 “Soggy Tail” Natural Media Brush

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'Soggy Tail' Photoshop Natural Media Brush for digital artists
‘Soggy Tail’ Photoshop Natural Media Brush for digital artists
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Brush strokes of a digital painting done using the Natural Media Brush toolset 'Soggy Tail' for digital artists
Brush strokes of the Natural Media Brush toolset ‘Soggy Tail’ for digital artists
A cloudy-textured brush which starts out as a soft shader with light stylus pressure but ends up very opaque at the highest pressure. The Soggy Tail natural media brush has the look of a watercolour and even bleeds a bit into the paper at its edges if you hold it almost steady in a spot, but has the opacity of an oil pastel.[/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 11) 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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