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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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Free GrutBrush of the Week #07 “Gallic Whey” Oil Brush

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'Gallic Whey' Photoshop Oil Brush for digital artists
‘Gallic Whey’ Photoshop Oil Brush for digital artists
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Brush strokes of a digital oil painting done using the Oil Brush toolset 'Gallic Whey' for digital artists
digital oil painting brush strokes created with the ‘Gallic Whey’ Oil Brush toolset 
A soft oil brush with a fairly wide opacity range and a medium amount of range in width from minimum to maximum stylus pressure. At low pressure, this brush has a more dilute fill than some of the other more pasty opaque oil brushes which makes it a more subtle tone brush but still with the signature oily blotchiness and at the highest pressure it has a sharp crisp edge.[/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 3) 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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Free Brush of the Week #05 “Slither Dew”

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Slither Dew Photoshop Watercolor Brush. A realistic, responsive, watercolour brush for digital artists.
Slither Dew Photoshop Watercolor Brush. A realistic, responsive, watercolour brush for digital artists.
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Painting  with the Slither Dew Photoshop Watercolor Brush
Painting with the Slither Dew Photoshop Watercolor Brush
This week’s free Photoshop brush is a soft grainy watercolour brush with a cloudy form and a texture that accentuates a grainy and fibrous weathered medium. This brush has a farily strong presence but with a light touch of the stylus can also be used for more subtle shading.[/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 (April 19) when there will be a new free brush.

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This week’s free Brush – Brash Mass

Brash Mass Natural Media Brush. A bold, robust brush with broad cover and a strong unambiguous graphic presence. In a manner unique to digital brushes this ink-like brush has ultra-sharp crisp aliased edges while displaying a base texture more reminiscent of softer media like pastel. Although you can get a fairly sparse grainy cover at low pressure this brush quickly goes to full opacity with minimal pressure making it best for broad, confident graphic strokes.

Log in and download it now Free until April 5 2015

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Announcing ‘Free Brush of the Week (or so)’ Page

 

'Crumb Runner' Photoshop Watercolor Brush for digital artists
First Free Photoshop Brush of the Week – ‘Crumb Runner’

As a member (signup/login for free) you can now download a new free brush every week on the free brush of the week page as well as on the home page. I will confess now that I don’t know if I can always meet that schedule, sometimes a good brush takes a little longer, that’s why I’m referring to it as the free brush of the week ‘(or so)

If you miss it for free each brush will move to the store where you can always purchase it and a new free brush will take it’s place.

Without further ado, here is the first free brush! Continue reading Announcing ‘Free Brush of the Week (or so)’ Page

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So Konwet – A soggy, wet, Ink Brush

So Konwet, the latest ink brush in the store is a runny ink brush with an edge that bleeds as if you are drawing on a wet paper towel. A variable sized allows you to do fairly detailed work at low pressure but the brush really excels at broad gestural drawing.

Brush strokes of a digital ink drawing done using the Photoshop Ink Brush toolset 'So Knowet' for digital artists
Digital ink drawing done using the Photoshop Ink Brush toolset ‘So Knowet’ for digital artists

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Drawing with the ‘So Konwet’ responsive Photoshop ink brush for digital artists

This brush is included in the Art Brushes Complete set

 

 

 

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“Dodo Stroke” – New Watercolor Brush

Brush stroke samples painted with the Dodo Stroke Photoshop watercolour brush.

I’ve put a new Photoshop watercolour brush in the shop today and I’m giving it away for free until this weekend! (expired) Continue reading “Dodo Stroke” – New Watercolor Brush

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Comparing Pressure Responsive Photoshop brushes to Stamp-style brushes


When I tell people about Grutbrushes they often say “Oh yes, I see tons of watercolor brushes on the web” Chances are they’ve seen the stencil type brushes that are made from a scan of one brush stroke that you can then stamp onto your image. You can achieve some fantastic results with those brushes if used sparingly but the big difference, and it really is big, is that Grutbrushes are dynamic and respond to the speed, pressure and motion of your stylus on your tablet allowing you to actually paint with them and achieve organic lines that resemble traditional media. This video shows a side by side comparison between the free stencil type brushes found all over the net and Grutbrushes pressure responsive watercolour brushes made for digital artists. If you haven’t already, you can download a free watercolor brush here to try it out for yourself.

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