Pharan Brush

Right now, CSP doesn't really have a lot of customization for lasso shape and lasso fill type stuff to begin with.

For lasso buckets, it's mostly just a matter of the settings for how much to extend the border beyond the lines it sees, which isn't complicated. You just move the slider until it's right.

For lasso paints, there's hardly anything to customize except the stabilization. It's just a matter of how and where you use it.

So yeah I had a few of them in there but only because their settings matched the brushes in the pack, not because they were particularly unique. They would have been named similarly to the brushes they were adjusted to.

I also have Quick Lasso Eraser on the assets page. It's just a utility lasso eraser for devices where it makes more sense to have a dedicated tool (like if you're using CSP on a mobile tablet or something) : https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1875033

i thought it was just a me issue at first but then when i used another pen it actually worked

Hey there!

Each individual freehand brush has a setting called "Enable snapping".

If the [Enable snapping] checkbox isn't checked, the brush will ignore all guides and rulers, including symmetry rulers.

If this item isn't visible in your tool property palette, you can find it in the subtool detail window (and make it visible from there if you want).

Hey!

I have overviews of each pack in the documentation page: https://pharanbrush.github.io/

It doesn't itemize every single brush file, but I put as many samples and lists and I could, with every set included. If I missed something though, definitely let me know.

Thank you!

Oh, I don't actively use a lot of Materials myself. I don't think I'm much help in that regard. I don't organize the material folders as much as I organize my brushes and brush groups.

I just chuck all my personal materials in my Pharan folder that has folders inside like, utility layers, paper layers, and roughly some folders according to which brush pack uses them.

And my downloaded ones (most of which are brushes anyway so it doesn't matter too much) usually stay in the default downloaded folder and I just use search or look for the thumbnail and specific name in the assets.clip-studio site.

I uploaded this action set to Clip Studio Assets. Asset ID: 2083426

I was thinking to myself: I wish I could switch the sketch layer on and off without having to look for it and interrupt my drawing.

Because there's a reason why "turn off the sketch layer, drawing looks weird" meme exists. Having the sketch layer visible obscures the a lot of the mistakes on the drawing layer.

Being able to effortlessly turn it on and off would mean you can do it more often and check your drawing layer more often without hesitation.

So here it is, after a few days of experimenting with auto-actions and some help from my friend teteotolis, and the community!

These actions look for a layer named "sketch" and switches its visibility on and off. No need to manually find the layer. No need to tap on the little square to toggle it.

If you bind it to some keyboard, or controller, or macro keypad shortcuts, it would be as seamless as how animators flip between pages when they animate.

Alternatively, you can add the auto-actions to the Command Bar or Quick Access palette.

It has some limitations: It will only target the lowest layer if you have multiple layers named "sketch", and you need two separate shortcuts: One for show, and another for hide.

Download it from the Clip Studio Assets page! 👇

Asset ID: 2083426

It was nice that this was possible at all. But ideally, we shouldn't need this auto-action.

Someone was asking if I had colored pencils.

IroEnpitsuP 2022 leans a little towards a stiff, waxy pencil on smooth paper. QuackwellP and IroEnpitsuP Side goes the other direction.

(QuackwellP is set to Multiply by default, but you can change it to Normal so it acts more like a colored pencil)

SmudgepitsuP is a good complement smudger for them.

That's a good question. There are all sorts of ways line weight is used and the right brush is different for each genre and style of drawing, I'd say.

To start: A lot of my lineart brushes are adjusted with slightly LESS brush size dynamics because I always felt like the original default CSP brushes (like the Mapping Pen and G-Pen) gave an unrealistic and uncontrollable amount just based on the their pressure settings.

Some people do use them well for specific styles, so they're not inherently bad. But I definitely think they're not friendly to beginners or people who just wanna pick up a pen and go draw rather than obsess over the precise way they're pushing down on their pen.

More recent versions of Clip Studio Paint actually came with some new default brushes, including "Real G-Pen", which had pressure settings that felt more right to me. But it's a little noisy so its uses are a bit more specific.

I have a brush set included with EnpitsuP called Superclean Linework. Those are the ones I designed as cleanup brushes for anime-ish looking art. They come in several flavors: Densy, Softie, Smoothy, Sang. I varied them based on how I saw different artists preferred their lines: a bit on the sharp side? Slightly blurry? With a little bit of opacity fade? A little more line variation? Among these, Sang has the largest amount of size response.

Ultimately, it may be a little bit of both a subjective experience and depend on what your hand/tablet/driver settings/style preferences are like. If you're having trouble finding a brush for this purpose, I think you should hone in on if you're not finding the right brush because every brush seemed too difficult to control, or you can't seem to get results you like, or you can't find one with a feel that matches the physical tool you're used to.

I think it's also worth noting that some artist's styles also rely a lot on them just changing their brush size setting depending on what part they're drawing. So you may end up needing a brush that has less pressure-size variation than you expect. My recommendation is always to look very closely when learning from someone else's linework example. Try to achieve it yourself side-by-side and see where it doesn't quite match up and ask yourself why. Or ask others why.

Of course, there are a bunch of other "lineweighty" brushes too outside of this genre of mostly-thin lineart.

thank you for sharing your work!! have a good day!

I'm not sure I follow.

I just posted on Jan 1st?