Sketching a Cat With an Oil Brush
Category: Photoshop Brush
Free GrutBrush of the Week #31 – Gritty Bits Pastel Brush
I painted this Giraffe with this week’s free Photoshop brush “Gritty Bits” a natural media pastel brush, available to download for free through Sunday in the brush shop or on the free brush page:
grutbrushes.com/freebrush
“Cave In” Photoshop Cross Hatching Brush
I didn’t get a chance to announce this week’s free GrutBrush on Monday due to my day job, but it’s been there and is still free until Sunday (24 hours left!) This one is a cross-hatching brush and I doodled this guy above using it. First I sketched the basic shape in black and then I ‘etched’ into it with the same brush, but using white to chip away at it (you could also use an eraser) and essentially carve into the black. Finally I made the layer a Multiply layer so that the white disappears and the paper background shows through.
As always you can get this on the free Photoshop brush of the week page
New Photoshop Oil Brush in the Shop – Molten Filo
Doodling with the latest brush “Molten Filo” it is an organic crusty edged Photoshop oil paint brush (old style, non-impasto) which starts with a thin faint sketching line and spreads to a medium width opaque line with variable textured coverage.
grutbrushes.com/shop/photoshop-brushes/molten-filo-photoshop-oil-brush/
Free GrutBrush of the Week #29 – ‘Slow Velcro’ Photoshop Ink Brush
Magical abstract trees painted with this week’s free GrutBrush, “Slow Velcro” a scraggly Photoshop ink brush. You can download it on the free brush page until next Monday when, as always there will be a new brush GrutBrushes.com/freebrush
Painting a Monster-Clown-Doodle
This is me trying to break my habit of drawing with black lines on a white background. Having grown up doodling on white photocopy paper with pencils and pens, my instinct is still to go for black lines on white. To try something different, here I started with a coloured background and a white paint brush (“Molten Filo”) and finished him off with a few orange flourishes with the “Creamsicle” watercolour brush. It’s very satisfying to break away from what’s comfortable and shaking things up is always a nice way to kickstart your creative impulses.
If you’re wondering about the texture, I am painting above a coloured background layer but underneath a copy of that layer, which is set to ‘overlay’ thus providing the linen-like texture.
Brushes used:
Molten Filo Photoshop oil brush
(coming soon: grutbrushes.com/shop/)
Creamsicle watercolor Photoshop brush
Also introducing: the GrutBrushes Digital Artist’s Tool Panel
Free GrutBrush of the Week #27 – Vole Tractor Photoshop Oil Brush
As always, you can download it on the free Photoshop brush page at GrutBrushes.com/freebrush
New Photoshop Charcoal Brush Set Out Now
And then there were ten! to celebrate the 10th charcoal brush toolset in the shop (16th really, if you include the other natural media charcoal-ish brushes) I’m offering them all as part of the collection Charcoals 01 for $4 (on sale for $2 through this weekend) All of these are free to anyone who purchased the All Brushes Sets in the last 30 days.
New Broad Coverage Charcoal Brush
I just added a new large, broad charcoal brush to the brush shop. This one is good for covering large areas with tone, and unlike some of the others which can get a bit smudgy at low pressure, ‘Dim Sky’ maintains a crispy grain even at the lighter values. Boost the pressure for dark, full coverage.
