Sketching and Lining

Homebrew Zaku Pencil (自作ざく鉛筆)

My go-to for both sketching and doodling. Texture is somewhere between a marker and pencil, just generally nice to draw with. If you’re only gonna download one of the brushes here, go with this one.

Ballpoint pen with Crm_ lame (Crm_ラメ入りボールペン)

This is the brush I use for lineart most of the time. Just turn off the Dual Brush feature to get rid of the glitter effect. I also turn off the colour jitter since it isnt an effect I like, but thats up to your own preference.

Write BōrupenP - ボールペンP

Ballpoint pen like brush. I use it with multiply on + a blue colour. I also like pairing it with the math grid texture from the textures section at the bottom of this post. Mostly just used for doodling.

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Just an overall nice rough textured sketch/line brush.

- Honourable mention to a 3px large binary brush with pen pressure turned off. If my wrist hurts I use that to doodle.

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Colouring and Shading

No gaps close and fill + for erasing tool reference layer (隙間無く囲って塗る＋消すツール 参照レイヤー用)

Fill tool I use for solid base colour.

Crm_wc塗り-比較濃度平筆(ムラ)

Marker brush I use for base colouring, shading etc.. I change brush tip angle to 90 + directon of pen. I colour in a clipping folder set above a solid base colour, and like for some of the “base” colour to shine through(?)

■ T marker/brenda- (■Tマーカー/ブレンダ―)

Brush I use for blending/smoothing the above marker brush. Once again I change brush tip angle to 90 + directon of pen.

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I also use a regular hard round brush with pen pressure on and minimum size set to 0, with anti aliasing either off or set to lowest.

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Auto Actions

Automatic Shadow Color creation (影色自動作成)

I’m really bad at picking shading colours, but this auto action creates a layer folder for shading based on your base colours automatically for you! Literally my god-send. I usually change the folder from “multiply” to “linear burn” instead.

Emo Shadowing auto action (エモ影化オートアクション)

Made by same person as above. Once you’re done shading, use this to give your shadows a “glow” effect.

Could be retro auto action (レトロかもしれないオートアクション)

Gives a “retro” effect. I usually use it on low opacity. Also includes a bonus RGB shift auto action.

Sharpening and bringing details.

This auto action set includes a bunch of different auto actions, but I only use the RGB shift and sharpening/sharpening strong. Makes your drawing look more “crisp”.

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Textures

Noise RGB

the RGB noise I use. I use it on a “soft light” layer above my drawings. Nothing special to say, just happened to be the one I downloaded.

Dust is also a color. (塵もわカラー)

“Rainbow cloud” brush. Nice for getting in some colour variation. Used sparingly here and there on an overlay or soft light layer.

Fantasy Backgrounds, textures (幻想背景、テクスチャ)

Some of my favourite textures to use!

ph Math Grid 罫紙

Grid texture. I like using it with the ballpoint pen in the sketching/lining section. Default colour is green, but I usually set it to light blue.

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I also use A LOT of gradient maps from different sets. I don’t really have any specific ones I can recomend since I use different ones for each and every drawing most of the time.. whoops.

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And that’s that! I use more stuff here and there, but these are the brushes/assets I use most consistently. Messing around with brushes in CSP is one of my favourite things to do, and I probably spend more time just messing around with them than actually drawing HAHAHA...haha.....