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Crazy Mixer Brush

Taken from Aaron Blaise, who has a nice demo of this on YouTube that does some neat foliage work.

This works with any image you want, just make sure the background is transparent.

Settings:

1. Make a ball with a solid circle, locked transparent pixels, airbrush on transparent layer
2. Choose Mixer Brush with Hard Round
3. Set size of brush to size of ball
4. Set Control Panel > Current Brush Load to Load Brush
5. Set Control Panel > Useful Mixer Brush Combinations to Dry, Heavy Load
6. Set Control Panel > Load Brush After Each Stroke to On
7. Set Control Panel > Clean Brush After Each Stroke to Off
8. In Brush Settings panel, set Brush Tip Shape > Spacing to 25%
9. Set Shape Dynamics > Control to Pen Pressure
10. Set Shape Dynamics > Minimum Diameter to ~50%

Useful Brush Settings

In general: Don't use extreme values for settigs. Keep the values low, especially for Jitter

• Brush Presets to create your own brush shape
• Uses values of grayscale for opacity. Black is opaque, white is clear, gray is transparent
• Menu > Edit > Define Brush Preset...
• Play with Brush Settings: Spacing
• Shape Dynamics
• Jitter adds realism and naturalness
• Color Dynamics
• Great for natrualitic brush/paint behavior
• Works better for naturalism with Apply Per Tip checked on
• Works well for dabbing with Apply Per Tip checked off
• Mixer Brush to pick up colors
• Brush: Kyle's Concept Brushes: Clouds + Fog + Weather

Useful Photoshop Brush Videos

My YouTube Photoshop Brushes playlist

Marco Bucci's 10 Minutes to Better Painting Series

(Above) Sinix Design - The Best Brush for Digital Painting ( on YouTube) Worth watching together. I don't entirely agree with him, but he does have a good approach. I like working with small brushes and don't mind the 'color pencil' effect he complains about.

Organizing Your Brushes

If you have a few brushes you use a lot, it's a good idea to organize them into a separate folder in the Brushes panel. But if you drag a brush from one brush folder to another, there is no 'Duplicate' or 'Copy' brush option, so you have to select the brush you want, click on the + button, name it appropriately, then move the new brush into your brush folder. Silly, it should just be option-drag. What you don't want to have happen is to move a brush from a collection to a personal folder without copying the original first.

Procreate Brushes

Videos

Demos

• Importing Brushes
• From the Web (a decent top 30 list)
• From iCloud
• Organizing Brushes
• Make a new brush category
• Editing or Creating Brushes
• It's a good idea to create a reset point before editing brush
• Getting Brush Shapes and Textures