This was sketched with ‘Kays Way’ the newest arrival in the brush shop today. It’s a fibrous natural media brush that is wiry and scratchy at the lowest pressure but gets soft and wooly at the highest stylus pressure. This highly textured pastel brush has low coverage making it a good impressionistic shader.
grutbrushes.com/shop/
Sometimes a soft brush with no context, nothing to compare it to, can just appear as smudged, faded or even just out of focus. What I like about this week’s brush is that while it has a softness to it, it also has lots of sharp grainy ‘bits’ in it, which depending on the background, appear to be either paper flaws or flaky deposits of pigment. It’s digital after all so what they really are, is up to you.
You can download this week’s free Photoshop brush until next Monday when, as always, there will be a new brush.
As always, you can download it on the free Photoshop brush page at GrutBrushes.com/freebrush
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.
I’ve given away a different brush every week now for 6 months straight! To celebrate…here’s a down to earth food old charcoal brush (hey, they can’t all be groundbreakers) As always, you can download this week’s brush at GrutBrushes.com/freebrush
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.
This week’s free Photoshop brush is a soft and fluffy charcoal brush. You can get it now on the free brush page https://www.grutbrushes.com/freebrush
This week’s free GrutBrush is a versatile charcoal brush with a wide tonal range. With a medium firm stroke this brush will give you a mid tone of about fifty percent coverage, press harder or double back on your stroke and you can fairly quickly get to an opaque full cover. Brush lightly to use it as a tonal sketching charcoal.
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 (July 20th) when there will be a new free brush.
grutbrushes.com/free-photoshop-brush-toolset-for-digital-artists/
*requires Photoshop CS 5.5 or higher and a pressure sensitive drawing tablet. free registration required to download.
