Beauty In The World

(These are .tpl files fyi; photoshop only. You’ll also find they’re rather large brushes, simply because I work in large 300+ dpi files)

THIS WAS WRITTEN BY ME, MAKAYLA ELIZABETH ALLGIRE, AND IF YOU COPYWRITE THIS ..I WILL FIND YOU..AND I WILL KILL YOU.

She is my new family, named “Ricola”!! Ricola is made by Japanese artist “Ozawa-dango”!

I’ve been trying to learn how to make my own photoshop brushes. Here are a few I made for practice yesterday.

In the drop-down menu, select “Reset All Locked Settings” and reselect any brush in your set. You’ll see that they all now have their own custom texture settings again. Adobe at some point thought it was a grand old idea to have options to make all textures on your brush set identical in image, scale, and depth. Maybe they had something good going for a certain group of people, but for me it was ruining all of my brushes. Hope that helps.

I actually didn’t think the star would work when I started it, but it ended up looking like watercolor. Is that not the coolest thing?

I know some people who are pretty new to making Photoshop brushes so I thought I’d share this easy textured one I made for one of my current paintings. I used the default hard round brush for my base but you could attach these settings to any kind of brush to give it a kind of pencilly look.

OH MY GOD

I use brushes from Dommifox, Sakimi Chan and Houston Sharp.

I made this handy video - I get asked a lot about how to remove unwanted overlapping edges in digital watercolor. Here you go! Please reblog this if your followers are digital artists. Thanks.

By the way, he numbers don’t need to be precise. Never mind the 41%, it can totally be 40% (mine was at 41% because that’s where is ended up when I played with the slider). I rounded the other numbers, but this one stayed like that, for some reason.

People ask me what brushes I use, and really it’s a hard question because I use many (this is a small sampling of some favorites) and because I also tweak brush settings constantly and encourage you to do the same. In Photoshop, you can turn stock brushes into amazing tools by simply experimenting with the transfer, direction, texture, and dual brush settings. I say experimenting because that’s seriously the best part of it. In the digital medium, it’s easy to make things look synthetic, but often your most random and loose of efforts will yield the most exciting results. This is just what I use, but figured I would put them down for those curious enough to draw inspiration from and start fiddling with making your own.

New postcard for Hitrecord in 2017

I have some new Photoshop oil brushes in the works, friends. They are fun.