#krita brushes

Portfolio day, brush pack edition. The first featured free brush set at the top of the list is for Procreate.

All my resources, free and paid, can be found here:

HELLO KRITA USER WHO LIKES OBJECTIFIED! Do you want to draw with the same brushes chestnut uses, but don't have a SAI license? Don't want to bother pirating it either?

WELL GOOD NEWS! I SPENT HOURS WORKING ON THIS JUST! FOR! YOU!

Below you can find ALL of the .bmp files Chester has given to us (AND a recreation of his linework brush) ported over as krita brushes!

HAVE FUN DRAWING!!!

Billford for ya'll MWA

Late night posting but nobody cared, here's some Krita brushes you might like, because i certainly do!

1 - Mojo Moo for Comics

2 - Stippled Beast Evolved

3 - Rakurri Brush Set V2.1

4 - Stylized Afro Hair Brushes

5 - Memileo Impasto Brushes

Part 1: Touch Interface Notes Part 2: Simplifying the Interface for a Tablet

BRUSH RECOMMENDATIONS:

The default brushes have some really nice sets, and are very easy to tune to your hand and feel via the Brush Editor settings. I was delighted to find that many of the basic brushes can be switched from a round to square head (Brush Editor-> Brush Tip -> Shape -> Square). Most other drawing programs, I have to make my own square head tip, and edit it in!

A particular shout-out to the watercolour brushes, which are some of the more natural feeling digital watercolours I’ve used not backed by a fluid dynamics system (and the sad trade-off with fluid dynamic systems is that they make my computers run like a potato). Krita’s default watercolour set run pretty well even with the larger brushes (I've been generally working on 300dpi files).

I also really like the Sketching Chrome Pen (under the default Ink set), which feels like pleasantly goopy ink/biro or a dry felt tip depending on how fast or what angle you draw with it, very fun to noodle around with.

However, if you want more brushes, here are some more commonly recommended ones and my impressions:

Concept Art and Illustration v2 by Pyteo

A good set for people coming from Photoshop, clean and focused for digital art. They run light and easy. Also a good pack if you find the default brush icons in Krita a bit distracting as interface elements – this set’s icons are plain grey and white, and blend in much better if you have the Brush Presets Docker always showing.

From Ramon Miranda, who created a lot (maybe all?) of the default brushes in Krita (and has many helpful Youtube videos for the official Krita channel):

CharcoalKA Sketch v2 Ink Brushes for Inktober RGBA-Wet (Brushes in video’s description)

His sets look very much like real media - I like the charcoal ones in particular. Fascinating to see images on the Krita forums of him using real media to make them too.

Memileo Impasto Brushes

I mainly use the first brush of this set to be honest, but it feels amazingly like blending real paint. The others can look a bit too much like what they're built on – a render from Blender – when applied at full strength, but provide ample scope for textural interest if you can blend them back a bit. Not a diss to this creator’s work – it seems inherently very difficult to avoid that computer rendered look when in the end, it is a computer rendering it. I don’t think even Rebelle or Adobe Fresco always avoid it, and the focus of those programs is a lot more on getting that analogue media look. I'd say I enjoy painting with this set as a digital acrylics/oils in Krita about just as much.

Rakurri Brush Set v2

I saw this one get recommended a lot as a beginner set on reddit, but I think of it more as a fun set to play with when you maybe need some inspiration, and are tired of your usual workhorse brushes. There are a lot of unique quirky brushes in it, that I think won’t necessarily enter everyday use for me, but have some cool effects – I really like the rainbow and liquid smeary brushes. I mainly don’t recommend it as a starter set because some of the brushes do run a little heavier; the orange tipped bristle ones in particular made my tablet lag.

Hii! Thank you for showing me your work, you've got some pretty nice stuff!

I'll give you a summary on the program/brushes and a timelapse of my latest drawing.

The program I use is Krita, which is a completely free and professional program. It looks scary and tricky when you first open it, that's why most people give up before actually understanding the basic tools. But I promise it's not difficult, and you can do everything other payed programs offer.

About the brushes: this may be surprising (or not) but I use pretty basic and simple brushes. I'm a believer that no good brush can fix lack of technique, and this is self criticism haha so if I want a certain effect, I tend to replicate it manually with basic brushes. I'm not saying I don't ever use different brushes tho, I just focus on three main ones, and I'm gonna show you:

This first one I mostly use for sketching, because it's not as sharp and it helps me create stains and shapes.

This second one is basically a hard version of the first, and I use it to both add the base colors and render them.

And the third one is the game changer. It's a blender, and it helps giving a textured oil painting effect. I use two versions of it, the first simulates brush strokes and the one beside it is perfect for soft rendering, it makes everything looks ethereal and smooth. They're both from Rad_pack, and it's probably the best brush pack I've ever got.

Also, you may notice that I love giving my drawings a traditional painting look, and most of the times I use some brushes from the packs: Memileo Impasto Brushes and ML Oil Paint Brush v1.1

And these are all the packs I have downloaded. Some of them are the standard from Krita. I don't use all of them, but they're all awesome.

And lastly, a timelapse/speedpaint! I have more timelapses on my instagram, but if you guys want me to start posting timelapses here too, just let me know

Anyway, hope this was helpful! 😁

Patterns/Texture Overlays: Aurelia's Lineart JP Illustration Toolkit Expressive Inks ^ all above are mentioned in brushes Natural Materials Volume 1 and Volume 2 (these are just images)

Gradients: Gold & Pearl by Lilly Mist Rakurri gradient map set

I don't use patterns or gradients often but those are what I have. I made some patterns a while back that I never finished the pack of so I'll upload those somewhere at some point but I'm not sure where I'll host them yet. there may be a lot of similar brushes in these, due to so many of them being inking ones. I still need to add more brushes but bweh

Okay! I've been collecting brushes and testing them for a while now; it's time to make this list. I'm going to organize it by category as best I can.

Also, all these brushes are available for free but please tip these artists if you can!

Digital illustration:

Rakurri Brush Set V2 on gumroad (SO MANY BRUSHES. Some especially fun ones with hue jitter!)

SpaghetMeNot's Hard Brushes on gumroad

Baphiste's Krita Brushset on gumroad

Nylnook Krita Brushes on gumroad

Krita Custom Brush Pack on gumroad

Jackpack Legacy Brushes on krita-artists

Realistic sketching and inking:

Sketch V2 on krita-artists (The MOST realistic pencils I've found.)

Inktober 2023 Brushes on youtube (Third link in desc)

Wavenwater Concept Brushes on krita-artists

Neko's Free Liners on krita-artists

CSP G-Pen Copycats

Ink Pen (CSP like) on krita-artists (G-Pen Copycat!)

Small Changes to the G Pen on krita-artists

Painting:

Watercolor Brushes for Krita on gumroad

Crunchy Brushes on gumroad

Oil Brushes for Krita 5 on gumroad

Memileo Impasta Brushes on pling

Impressionism with Krita on krita-artists

Experimental RGBA on gumroad

Textures, stamps, and cheats:

FizzyFlower's Essential Brushes on gumroad (400+ brushes, but you can download one category at a time!)

InkkSUNA's Prismatic Brushes on gumroad

InkSUNA's Flora Brushes on gumroad

Afro Hair Brushes on gumroad

Baphiste's Body Hair Brushes on gumroad

Cityscape Brushes for Krita on gumroad

Not Brushes: