#pharanbrush

I've just released this free "Symmetry Move Brush" tool on Clip Studio Assets.

Currently testing a blunted jumbo pencil.

Tentative name: EnpitsuP Jumbo

I'm trying to incorporate some of the useful aspects of a jumbo Staedler pencil I recently got.

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.

I had to make this diagram for someone. I figured I might as well use it for Krupuk tips.

But it's pretty basic and works with any semi-transparent brush.

Achieving both soft color blending and a markery paper texture isn't super straightforward in Clip Studio Paint so this is one of several options you have to achieve it.

(oc Nera belongs to @/erojiji3)

I've been studying limited-tone colors and shadows and figured Leif was a good tool to use. But it wasn't doing what I needed it to do, or even what I imagined I originally wanted it to do, so I decided to make a few new brushes, as the new Leif set. (retiring most of the original ones in the process)

Currently just calling the new set Leif 2.

The new brushes, named "Leif Paint" (with variations on its shape) have been coming along nicely.

Yesterday, I drew this thing and was enjoying how the brushes were working for it.

Its primary purpose, making dabs of paint look leafy and generically brushy and nice, is definitely already there.

As a paint-sketch and finalized painting tool, especially for shaping shadows, I think I still need to test some more but results have been promising so far.

Also as a Greek I feel represented with the tzatziki and tahini brushes 😎

I'm glad you liked Krupuk!

Turnip Detail Dense and the other turnip painting brushes are part of my old Radish Soup set. I've actually marked it as retired but some people still use it so I just keep it included.

It's part of the Tapioca digital painting pack. It's a separate file labeled Radish Soup (2019). (If you got Tapioca on gumroad, Radish Soup is in the "Retired Brushes" subfolder.)

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tzatziki and tahini are really good though

Currently in early access for Ko-fi supporters, as well as a bunch of other brushes.

Bichael BorupenP and Rice Idea