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Posted on January 16, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

New Charcoal Brush ‘Peel Braiser’

Photoshop charcoal drawing created using 'Pee Braiser' Photoshop brush — Photoshop charcoal drawing created using ‘Pee Braiser’ Photoshop brush

This charcoal or chalk brush is more flexible and fungible than some of the more recent brushes in that it is has a very soft fingerprint at low pressure. With a single stroke you get very light coverage which makes shading easy as you can easily control the amount of colour and by building it up with multiple stokes it’s possible to create areas of light colour blend into very dark sections without visible brush strokes. This maintains a sharp texture like you would have with chalk or charcoal on heavy textured paper without the smudginess that you would get using a stump or tortillion in traditional media.

Video of digital charcoal drawing done using the 'Peel Braiser' Photoshop Charcoal Brush toolset — Video of digital charcoal drawing done using the ‘Peel Braiser’ Photoshop Charcoal Brush toolset

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'Peel Braiser' Photoshop Charcoal Brush for digital artists — ‘Peel Braiser’ Photoshop Charcoal Brush for digital artists

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‘Peel Braiser’ Charcoal Brush.

A hard charcoal with a light coverage that makes it ideal for shading with a crisp texture. With repeated strokes this brush can give you full dark coverage with lots of opportunity for graduated blending.

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Watch the brush strokes in action

Video of drawing done with ‘Peel Braiser’ brush

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

New GrutBrushes Now on Pinterest

GrutBrushes digital artists brushes on pinterest

There’s a new way to keep up with the latest Photoshop brushes, the Photoshop brushes board on Pinterest. This is a nice way to keep up to date via your regular Pinterest feed where every new brush will appear shortly after being published in the Brush Shop (which will always be the fastest way to learn about new brushes) where the brushes appear in order of newness.

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

New Brush Sample template

sample Photoshop brush stroke previewer template

This is two previews in one; sample brush strokes of Tremble Stem, a Photoshop Ink brush I’m working on that should be in the shop soon but also a preview of a new brush stroke sampler template. I want to develop a standard set of sample strokes that will both show off the brush in action and at the same time enable you to compare them in a relatively standard fashion. I’ve borrowed a template style from the excellent reviews of brush pens that I really enjoyed on Parkablogs written by Teoh Yi Chie. By performing a similar set of strokes using each brush I hope to be able to give a good idea of how each GrutBrush performs so that you can pick the perfect brush for your digital painting or drawing. This is just the first draft, based on Chie’s samples and it will probably change before I implement it widely. Continue reading New Brush Sample template

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

“Tailors Mane” Photoshop Pastel Brush

Digital drawing done with the Tailors Mane Photoshop Pastel Brush. A realistic, responsive, Photoshop Pastel Brush for digital artists.

There’s a new natural media brush in the shop today, a digital pastel brush, though at full pressure it looks quite chalky due to it’s sharp texture.

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'Tailors Mane' Photoshop Pastel Brush — ‘Tailors Mane’ Photoshop Pastel Brush

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A thick sharp textured pastel brush with a ribbed staccato line that covers quickly and fully at maximum pressure. With a gentle touch this pastel brush is capable of a sparser almost chalk-like line sketch but it comes to life as a broad and brash sketching brush.

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Posted on December 16, 2014 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

A Peek into the workshop – New Brushes are on the way

"Desk Inspector" New Photoshop ink brush coming soon — “Desk Inspector” New Photoshop ink brush coming soon

I know it’s been a while but new brushes are on the way, there are quite a few in the pipeline they are just not quite ready for the store. Here’s a sneak peek at one of the new ink brushes in the workshop. It’s working title is currently “Desk Inspector”

Drawn with "Desk Inspector" ink brush — Drawn with “Desk Inspector” ink brush

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

Cross-Hatching Photoshop brushes collection

Drawn with Hatch Thrasher Photoshop cross-hatching brush — ‘Skulk’ drawn with Hatch Thrasher cross-hatching Photoshop brush

The collection of 7 cross hatching Photoshop brushes is now available for a steal of only $2 Hurry before it goes up in price to it’s usual outrageous $3.

cross-hatching animated Photoshop brush speed painting — cross-hatching Photoshop brush animated speed painting

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High speed digital drawing done with the "Hatch Thrasher" cross hatching Photoshop brush — Digital drawing done with the “Hatch Thrasher” cross hatching Photoshop brush

Drawn entirely with the "Hatch Tag" Artisanal cross hatching brush from grutbrushes.com — Drawn entirely with the “Hatch Tag” Artisanal cross hatching brush from grutbrushes.com

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Detail of digital drawing done with Carvink cross-hatching Photoshop brush — Detail from cross-hatching Photoshop brush digital drawing Carvink

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Posted on November 30, 2014 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

New Discount Pricing – 4 Brushes for $3

Buy 4 brushes for the price of 3 - Discount added automatically — Buy 4 brushes for the price of 3 – Discount added automatically

Now when you add 4 brushes to your cart from the shop you can get another 1 for free! That works out to $3 for 4 brushes. The deal is cummulative, so if you buy 6 you can get 8 brushes or put more simply, every fourth brush is free. Just keep adding and the cart will add the discount automatically.

The best deal is still the All Brushes package which will give give you every brush in the shop, plus any new brushes published in the next 30 days for only $10. Currently that works out to 42 44 brushes for $10, or 22 cents per brush!

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

New wet Ink Brush – Pond Meander

video of Digital ink drawing - digital drawing done using the 'Pond Meander' Photoshop Ink brush toolset — Digital brush strokes done using the ‘Pond Meander’ Photoshop Ink brush toolset

This latest Photoshop Ink brush “Pond Meander” has a scratchy broken line and appears to bleed into the paper. I like it quite a bit for sketching as it’s “predictably undpredictable” in that while no two lines are identical, it has quite a consistent look which makes it good for drawing as you know you can make identifiable outlines which still have a nice organic messiness to them. I will post an example drawing here and on the brush’s page soon.

I’m giving away 20 free Pond Meander brushes with the coupon code pondfree (Coupon valid unless button has ‘expired’ tag) click below to download the brush for free.

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Posted on November 11, 2014 by Nicolai — Leave a comment

New Account Feature – download all brushes in Zip File

If you have purchased a lot of brushes you know that your downloads list on your account page can get quite long and downloading all of them could be a bit time consuming if not tedious. Now you can download all your purchased brushes (new and archived) in one go! Just select all the brushes you want to download and click on the “download all files” button and you can download all your brushes at once in one zip file.

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download all your Photoshop brushes in one zip file

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New brush purchases can still be downloaded one file at a time

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Once you’ve downloaded your zip file, you will find it contains all the zip files that you would have previously downloaded one by one. You will still have to extract your .tpl (Photoshop toolset file) to install it but at least your downloads will all happen with just one click. Continue reading New Account Feature – download all brushes in Zip File