Sorry I meant to say there any Copic maker brush for CSP?
Fun Fact: It's been at least five years since I picked up a true Copic marker, so I'm not sure if I'm the best for this. I'll do my best! @ anyone reading this, feel free to suggest your favorites too. :o
This will be different since there will be GIFs for this to show you what they draw like. Marker feeling is just as important as marker look. I'll have the non-gif versions at the bottom to compensate for color loss. I'm going to recommend one paid set, then the rest are free, so you can scroll down if you don't have cash to spare.
Originally, one of the most popular CSP Copics was Wren's alcohol Makers - based on Copics themselves, texture & everything.
They're now 5$ on Gumroad. The original set was just 2 brushes & a texture IIRC, now it's several brushes & textures. If you like how they look, grab 'em here.
There's also Michael Guimont's set for 4$ which I haven't tried, but he did great with his pencil set so I'm guessing it's also quality. I also love this set by Frankentoon Studios for 15$, but the markers are a bit more messy than classic copics!
Ok, now the free stuff. There's 2 strategies for markers: make a brush with a texture, or make brushes and then a texture to put on top of it. You'll see what I mean below.
Gloomsugar's makers feel nice to me. They have a nice subtle texture & mix well, and are gentle to the touch. I changed the bottom to be on "normal" instead of "darken" blending mode.
Crm's marker set (sorry for forgetting the R in the name there) takes the second approach: a marker texture on top.
These are soft, normal mixing brushes that come with 2 textures to use on top. I think it's a great compromise if you want blending without compromising texture, but it's a bit hard to get used to.
This method can be done with any paper texture you own. Like so:
Mine (Real Textures Pack), Crm's textures in the Marker pack above, & this texture set to the blending mode overlay here. Again, this is the best way to make sure you get the nice melting feeling of alcohol markers digitally without worrying about losing texture. Or you could like alcohol markers without the texture period, so a general brush is the best compromise.
The Nu Markers used to be on the CSP Asset Store, but got taken down once someone finally noticed the thumbnail was Jet Set Radio fanart ;w;
They're archived here and hopefully he'll reupload them on CSP Assets again too. They're on the dry side, so it may or may not be what you're looking for. Great look, though.
The other two on CSP assets are this set that got popular recently & this marker for 10cp I like. The first one I haven't played with as much but do enjoy from a glance, the second is nice but I'm not sure if it is what you're looking for.
Off of CSP Assets, there's these markers from Halftone Hospital:
Originally for Photoshop, these actually import great to CSP. They do not have blending, but you can add it in of course. Nice, smooth, fun.
Lastly, I don't think this is what you're looking for, but the burnout ink set on Photoshop is a ton of fun:
I just really adore the texture and feel of these. Lots of fun. I am pretty sure I had to adjust the brush stroke gap from like 1.0 to the default "narrow" instead since that slows brushes down. :v
I'm not sure if these are what you're looking for, but I hope they help!
I adore your work, it’s always stunning! Would you mind sharing which brushes you tend to use most? I’m new to digital, having always worked with graphite and am struggling to find brushes that I like. I always love your line work, so would appreciate any suggestions. Hope you’re having a wonderful day!
Hi! Thanks 😊
I use Procreate’s default pencil brush and some brushes on Chromograph and Rusty Nib from here https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com
It’s better if you try each of them to be honest coz it varies for each person. Hope this helps.
the intoxicate pencil set got deleted recently, ya have it?
massive ginormous unfathomable thanks in advance
Salutations, friend! Not me personally, but this nice person has uploaded them with a few other sets too:
Link to tweet with DL below them.
Funny thing, I'm actually very particular with pencils and that's why I've made so many. Sketching is an important step, always be comfortable & modify your brushes to your liking. 👍
I don't know if you know this artist lemon_eyebrows. But I don't know what CSP brushes they use for making there art. I don't know if you can recognize the brushes they use?
Truth is, not even my superpowers are that good. I can try and approximate though.
Edit: Check the Reblogs & Replies, other people have chipped in with links & responses.
Be forewarned though: I'm doing this since it's an interesting challenge to dissect other people's artstyles and I'm assuming the artist is too inactive/didn't respond for whatever reason. There's no real copyright on style or art technique, but do be aware some artist are very protective of their style. Some see it as an extension of themselves and get upset when they see copycats. I think there's nothing wrong with studying and learning other artists (for example a common exercise is copying a famous painting to learn technique of it for yourself), but I'll delete or modify this if L_E asks for the sake of respect. Most who copy other artist's styles usually go "Man, I wanna be that cool!" and do it for non malicious reasons, so I don't mind helping out. Usually people learn then diverge from the style, just another stage of learning and enjoying art.
For the future, I'm open to doing more asks like this since theyre interesting, but the best way is always to ask the artist first. Please enjoy Lemon Eyebrows' Ko-Fi, while we're at it.
Now to the meat of the post: The problem is a lot of brushes are similar to each other. It can also be a brush the artist created on his own, either from scratch or by modifying another. Usually, people just download the most popular brushes and use those since they're easy to use and provide good results (a good thing), so I'm going off that. Here's the best approximate I got.
シミペン・改 / Symi Pen Kai is my guess on lineart. It is a lightly aliased rough pen with good character, responsive to both speed & pressure.
かすれ油彩■リメイク (1776520) / Hoarse oil ■ Remake (1), オイルパステル / Oil Pastel (1702961) (2), & やわふわ厚塗り(1807544) / TPU Light Thick Coating are all brushes that can make the approximate of the shiny effect (3), while Hoarse Oil has the best general coloring look.
For a hard shiny surface, use something like a regular smooth pen or a Lasso Fill like this 1978471, draw out the shine line, then erase with a soft eraser (I used one at 60% hardness). You can then blend it with another coloring brush or a blending brush like the right side in case you want to make it less harsh.
For a texture overlay,ノイズ白粗 / Noise White Coarse from ( 1721075 ) & the texture from the T-marker Wind Brush Set (Tマーカー風ブラシセット) ( 1692034 ) will give you a similar look.
A few people have released things on CS assets themselves, but not many people go full hog and make custom icons. I'll attach them at the end of this post, so you can jump to "keep reading" to see those. I even released a few.
The icon size is 20x20. You can use a bigger, square ratio canvas to draw on to make it easier if you're not doing a pixel icon. I usually go for 40x40 for more wiggle room if I'm not doing pixel art.
I apologize to the nice person who made a whole set of Pink & cyan icons, but you can recolor & make your own icons easily yourself too. It'll be more tedious than the premade set but you're paying for the convience & to support the artist with that one.
To recolor an icon, take a screenshot of an icon...
(my tools are a mess ;w;)
I'm choosing the default pens here.
Paste it to a 20 by 20 px canvas:
The background is the color of my tool sectioin so I know how it will look in it.
From here, I invert the layer using the CTRL + I (command on apple) shortcut. Then I adjust the brightness so the background is white & the icon is black.
Then I go [Edit] -> "Convert Brightness to Opacity" & bam, transparent icon. SAVE AS A TRANSPARENT PNG, then you're golden and can right click on a subtool/brush to replace the icon.
If you want each tool to show a different icon, right click on a tool and do this.
Or you can just put any square image in there like hank hill. Up to you. There's an archive of old windows 98 icons for things like scanning too.
Recommendations:
It's easiest to find them on the asset store under "image material" or "material catalog". Here's some cool ones:
A big Tool Icon
OSHARE's 200 types (super cute!)
OnyxChalchedony's pixel icons (always happy to see more pixels!)
Only OCD Friendly Icons 1 is free, but if you just post a color set on CSP for some clippy you can get enough for all within 2 days. Great for people who use a lot of decorations.
Icons for Special Rulers Set - I'm surprised these aren't default, they're very helpful for ruler users.
All of lee.norang's posts are nice and sleek icons to use.
These are for the command bar for grids & save types, which is one of the things I made for myself too. Love the colors on this one.
A bright set for bright cheery people
This one is in a layer template format, so you'll drag it onto the canvas and it will have layers come out. There's only a bit of JPN so if you can't read it, it isn't hard to modify or understand.
Two Packs of icons, big huge set.
BONUS:
You can print these out and use them, but you can also use them for regular icons. Very helpful!
There's more icons on CSP, but not all of them are useable across languages (i.e. I can't read Japanese so I can't use this Japanese character for an icon).
As I said earlier, I made some myself & will probably upload more of them I've made over the years for free since mine have no concrete theme. A variety pack of thift store leftovers type deal.
yo wsg its me the guy [floofyz] who uhh made kyubrushes/kyubi's set which i saw u archived yayyyy
i made this brushset out of complete boredom & i might rerelase the paw blender soon as its own seperate brush bc i drew the brush tip myself
Wonderful! Let me know if you want the other one taken down or if it's cool to keep up. I'll try and remember to post the CSP link if I catch it, if not, feel free to send another ask. ☺
Sorry for bothering you but Tsutsustaff's comment was half right on lemon-eyebrow brush. Like they use flat brush for making their art but the other two was wrong. Those two other brushs Dw Pixel Sponge and textured wet brush from aideneye99 use those. I just wanna correct them with this info.
