Sub-subtitle: And other stuff…

I’m back with part two of my assorted brushes guide for Photoshoppers. Why? Because picking the right brush is essential when learning how to draw with a tablet or a mouse. If you’re short on time, go ahead and skip to the calligraphy and Paint.net sections because the rest of the assorted brushes aren’t that good. Just make sure to check out brushes 14, 15, 18 and 20.

Assorted Brush 14 – Star

Pretty stars strung together creates a line that looks like a bug or centipede. This brush will be useful for anything that needs little spikes coming out of the sides. If you run the lines over each other, you will create a fuzzy-looking smudge. Individually, this brush forms stars. But these stars get really blurry as their size is increased.

Assorted Brush 15 – Starburst

The ultimate brush for creating pretty stars. Strung together, this brush looks like a weird necklace or some prickly thing. They are also great for creating sparkles, such as when a character’s teeth are really clean. When drawn over each other, these starbursts can create fuzzy caterpillars.

Assorted Brush 16

This brush is mostly useless, though it can sorta create good textures. When drawn in a line, this brush can create lines that make me think of jewelry, but the lines look kinda blurry.

Assorted Brush 17

This is another blurry brush that might be useful for creating some textures. Drawn in a line, this brush looks like a table cloth that had black ink dabbed all over it.

Assorted Brush 18

This brush might be useful for drawing dirt or a bushy material.

Assorted Brush 19 – Confetti

The confetti brush doesn’t seem too useful, though this brush looks like a spine or something metallic when drawn in a line.

Assorted Brush 20

This is a really cool brush that can create really awesome font that looks very 3D. When the brush is drawn over itself, the brush can create a 3D plateau. The line also makes me think of a bug that is viewed from the side. A very 3D bug.

Assorted Brush 21

This is a VERY blurry brush that hurts the eyes. I dunno if you even want to use this brush at all. If you ever find a use for this brush, please email me.

Assorted Brush 22 — Triangle

This brush will mostly make normal lines and splotches that have little spikes all over them. Whatever is drawn will have very triangular tops, bottom lefts, and bottom rights. There are probably some good uses for this brush.

Assorted Brush 23 – Triangle Dots

Use this brush whenever you want to have 3 lines in the form of one line. I can’t think of any practical applications for this, but there probably are some.

Calligraphy

I will eventually be checking out the other Photoshop brushes, but for now I have three sets of brushes that I’m not going to check out. One group is the calligraphic brushes. A lot of these brushes are way too similar to evaluate individually. They’re great for writing calligraphy of course and also great for creating really rippling effects. They also look really cool.

Wet Brushes

Another good set of brushes are the water color style brushes. Use these if you want to get the watercolor feel when using your tablet. I picked blue because I was getting sick of black. These brushes are so beautiful, they made me cry.

Paint.net

Finally, there’s the Paint.net brushes. Paint.net, along with GIMP, is one of the best free graphics programs. But while Paint.net is useful in a lot of ways, they aren’t very innovative with their brushes. However, while a lot of them might suck for drawing, they’re brilliant if you need texture or free screentones. Need a brick wall and don’t want to spend the time drawing it? Find a brick-like brush and size it until you find a size that makes you happy.

Ooh, also check out the special effects brushes. Great brushes for really lazy people.

Why do I say lazy? It took me under 30 seconds to create this.

What’s left? The thick section, natural section, goofy faux section and dry section (by Gillette :p ).

Goodbye!

Alex

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