Can I ask what brushes you use for your art?? They’re all so cool
Hello, and thank you so much!!! :D Honestly I’m just gonna infodump on ya, I’d rather give too much information than not enough. I use Procreate on an iPad for everything and have next to no patience for messing with brush settings, so most of my stuff is just preloaded 😂 I’ll show them all though!
Everything should be from procreate’s Classic Library instead of the Procreate Library, which sounds confusing if you haven’t used it before. You just gotta pinch out (like you’re zooming out) of the brush selection and it should show you both libraries.
For most of my flat 2D drawings, it’s me and the script, airbrush, and gloaming brushes against the world. I might do a sketch with the Round Brush (which I’ve adjusted to taper at the ends a little) or one of the pencil brushes, but I never spend a whole lot of time on those. I’ll do any line work with the Script brush, which I really like because it doesn’t auto stabilize or whatever and make my lines all weird. I like that the taper isn’t too sensitive too—it lets me make both thin and thick lines without adjusting my size all the time. That’s how I fill my base colors as well, I just outline with Script and bucket fill lol.
Any textured lines in my drawings are most likely done with the Gloaming brush, which looks kind of like using the long edge of a pencil to me…? Or maybe watercolor paper or something, it just tickles the brain nicely. Then I’ll occasionally use the Thylacine or Inka brushes for messy looking inky lines, but that’s not super often.
For more painterly things I kinda don’t have a set process…? Like I’ll just pick a brush and go to town, usually on one layer unless I’m using some adjustments or adding in several elements. Sometimes I like to use the Spectra brush (which I also have a tapered version of) because I enjoy the texture it has, but it’s a little tricky to use…lately I’ve just been using the Flat Brush all the way to encourage myself to be less detailed in the beginning, which is a BIG problem with me! Then I’ll go behind and blend some edges with the Hard Blend brush if I need to.
I enjoy adding a little bit of texture if my art is looking plain. One particular example I used a ton in my Inktober stuff is swiping the Tarraleah brush on a lower opacity multiply layer over the entire drawing, which imo made things feel slightly more organic. Using Smoke, Flicks, Driven Snow, or any of the other fun textured brushes is cool too, especially when I don’t feel like painstakingly adding pesky details in the background. I’m lazy and tired y’all, I’m not gonna sit there and render smoke if I have a brush that can do most of it for me 😭
The only brush that I’ve made on my own (at least I think???? I can’t remember tbh) is called Scatter, which is just a more evenly spaced version of Flicks. It’s tapered too and I use it to make…uh…trailing sparkles, I guess? It just saves me from having to stab my screen a bunch of times to make little dots everywhere!
I think that’s it…I try to dabble with other brushes sometimes too—the brushes in the new library look cool, and I keep meaning to try them out—but I’m honestly a creature of habit and keep going back to my favorites, lol. I tried to make a little sample sheet of some brushes (+ what category they’re stored under) and point out what I used in a few of my works, so I hope that helps at least a little bit. If you need any clarification or have any more questions, please let me know!!! 💖
