#brush making

[airenfolio]

This is like a flash sheet to me (I'm working on some pattern and ribbon brushes :3)

[craftdiscoveries]

(via Categories of risk | Heritage Crafts Association)

A list of endangered crafts. My goodness it’s long.

[shrineheart]

Shrine: I can literally show you how to make brushes Shrine: you could sell reference photos Shrine: you should make coloring pages and sell them A Sexy Fig: What brushes can I make that like... you haven’t already though? Like. Seriously. Shrine: Para A Sexy Fig: What. Shrine: I literally dowbnloaded 200+ brushes from the clip studio assets store Shrine: I have brushes like them but they're not the same Shrine: two cakes Shrine: there's a wide variety of consumers out there Shrine: just because you make something that I've made a brush for? Shrine: doesn't mean it will look the same as mine Shrine: it will have your unique spin on it Shrine: the same way the million grass brushes I have all give different kinds of grass Shrine: because as artists making brushes Shrine: we all do grass differently Shrine: same goes for anything we make

I wanted to illustrate this so here we go. I’m going to show some examples of different brushes from different artists that are made to do the EXACT SAME THING.

GRASS:

LEAVES:

HAIR:

ELECTRICITY:

SPARKLES: 

TL;DR: You are the only person who can make things the way you do them so do it because other people can learn and utilize the things you make, sometimes in surprising ways.

[todaysdocument]

“Farrell family. They had discontinued the brush making, but sent to a neighbor for materials and posed for me, just as they had been doing it. The little 5 year old on the right is very deft. Her eyes seemed to be troubling her. The father complained of the little money there was in the work. New York City.“, 2/5/1912

Series: National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine, ca. 1912 - ca. 1912. Record Group 102: Records of the Children's Bureau, 1908 - 2003

Taken by investigative photographer Lewis Hine 105 years ago, this photograph is from a series of black-and-white prints given to the Children’s Bureau by the National Child Labor Committee.

[bigsillyclownyapsandreblogs]

Some highlighter fun

If I didn’t have to go to the doctors tomorrow I’d stay up drawing

Anyway while I’m on @stuck-in-ponyville Hiatus /break /working on it despite it all. I’m taking time to make brushes for my kofi shop and I am indeed obsessed with these highlighters I made.

Idk how much I’d charge for these but probably $1

I think i deserve a dollar

ANYWAY!!!! Lmk what you think always looking for feedback

[francisprattphotography]

Hand made Brush Talisman. Art is ceremony. I have been experimenting with mark making instruments, this peice was made with foraged pine and horse hair.

[clockworkjackdaw]

I need to really sit down and try and figure out the brush customization system in CPS and see if I can get a better inking pen and sharper, cleaner pencil. I love the sketch pencil brush I have but its never not sketchy, so a cleaner one might be in order. Suggestions or tutorials you might know of are welcome!

[albinogrimby]

Manga Studio 5 Tutorial: Brush Making

This Mortal Coil is a graphic novel by Glenn Song. The story follows a modern goddess, Kamiko, and her adventures in the mortal and eternal realms.

I’m going to show you how to make some of the brushes I used for This Mortal Coil starting with the sakura blossomas and petals I used in “Sakura Storm.”

Before we begin: This is the first time I’ve done a tutorial or any kind of technical writing for a long time. If you are confused, please tell me in the comments and I can try and clarify the steps. It’ll help me improve for next time as well. Here we go…

The first step was to create the artwork for the sakura blossoms. I went to google images and studied a bunch of cherry blossom images and I began to sketch them. I wanted to get the blossoms from different angles, because the brush ultimately just sprays the blossoms and varies the size and angle. Sprayed artfully, they’ll appear as if the wind is blowing them along.

A few things to keep in mind: when making your brush’s artwork, make the drawings bigger than you’ll need. When you create your brush, you might use a scaled down version of your brush and if that’s the case you’re fine, but if you want to make larger patterns with your brush, you’ll be glad you started with bigger artwork. Also, when you make your artwork, make sure you do them on a separate layer with a transparent background. The green here is on a separate layer, but for the purposes of this article, I added it to make the blossoms more visible.

  Making Materials

Once you have the drawings, the next part is to make them into materials. Here are the steps:

1. Cut out one of the blossoms. You want to try and get as close as you can to the edges of the artwork. The best way to do this in Manga Studio is to use the magic wand and click in the negative space of the artwork (the background) — this is, of course, if your blossoms/petals are each on separate layers. With the negative space selected, invert the selection and you’ll have an outline of your artwork.

2. With your blossom selected now, goto the Edit menu and select “Register Image as Material.” You will see a dialog that looks like this:

Give your new Material a name.

Check “Use for brush tip shape” which will let you use your artwork as, well, a brush shape.

Check “scale up/down” which should be the option to allow your artwork resize as you draw strokes with your brush

Save this new material under the brush subfolder.

You can optionally give your materials tags that you can use to search later. You can also search by the material name. Once you make a material, the images become apart of Manga Studio’s material database. Here’s the silly thing, I don’t know where those images live, I’ve never gone and investigated the file structure, but you don’t need to worry about that now.

Go through and isolate and crop down your other images and then make them into brush materials.

Making the Brush

In the toolbar there’s a button that says “Decoration” — please see the red box on the image below — it looks like a tuft of grass. Select that and you should see a ton of available brushes that Manga Studio has built in. There are, in fact, spray brushes for vegetation and there are other brushes that work as a ribbon such as a lace brush or a musical measure brush.

This “Decoration” subtool is where you will add your new brush. Here’s how:

Find a submenu (“Effect”, “Hatching”, etc) that’s appropriate for you

Make a new brush there by clicking on the new icon, or alternatively, right-clicking on an existing brush and duplicating it to build your new brush from.

Open that new brush’s properties panel. Depending on how you setup your manga studio workspace you may see the properties in a different location than me. If you don’t see it at all, try going to “Window” in the menu bar and selecting the option “Tool Property” and you’ll see a new subwindow appear with brush settings (hopefully)

Once you get the submenu to appear, there’s a handy wrench on the bottom right hand corner of that submenu — see the image below and where the blue outline is. IF you click on that you will get another large submenu that looks like the one in the blue square. These are the extensive properties used to customize your new brush, and it’s just as powerful, if not more powerful, than Photoshop’s brush engine.

Here’s the brush setup for the Sakura Blossom:

In the brush editor, go to Brush Shape and make sure you have “pen” picked as your brush type. I believe this defines the base functionality of the brush. For instance, the “pen” brush shape is solid, so if you don’t want any fading of your image as you paint, then “pen” will just output your solid image.

Goto Brush Tip next. Here you can add your brush materials. Under “tip shape” select material instead of circle. You’ll now have the ability to add your new brush materials. Click on the paper icon and add your brush materials. You can do more than one.

Afterwards goto “Spraying effect” and check the “Spraying effect” checkbox. All of the options below should highlight now. One of the things I set was “Particle density” there’s a little 3 dot button at the end of that option’s row. Select it and a new window appears. Daunting, huh? Well, this panel lets you select how the particles randomly distribute. I just select random and let everything be. You can also set Direction of Particle, and when you’re done you can test the brush out.

Make a new canvas and try the brush out. It may not be entirely what you want, so you can always go back and mess with the individual options or experiment. That’s how I learned — by trial and error until I got something I liked. It’s a cumbersome way to learn, but if you’re adventurous you can figure things out on your own.

Useful Notes on Brushes

Any brush you make to paint on a canvas, you can easily turn into an eraser of that brush shape. To do that look for the Combine Mode dropdown list. You’ll find that under the brush’s property panel. It allows you to do a lot of different combine modes just like you could in Photoshop with layers, but the last option is “erase.”  When I render high contrast images for my comic, I sometimes create eraser brushes, especially of foliage, and erase the black parts to give it a sense of shading and lighting. Of course, you can also do other combination modes as well with the brush, so the sky’s the limit.

Hide/Reveal Brush Properties. In the brush property panel, you’ll see on the left of each option is a check box. If you click it, you’ll get an eye. This means that the property is now visible on the tool’s submenu so that way you don’t have to keep going to the full property panel. You can have quick access to that attribute of your brush. I usually set combine mode and anti-aliasing so I can easy reach those options and turn a new brush into an eraser or to change the aliasing mode depending on what I’m doing.

You can do much more with brushes, so this is just scratching the surface. I’ve played with making ribbon type brushes which are useful for things such as lace (which Kamiko has a lot of). Hopefully this guide will get you started exploring brushes and applying that power to your artwork. I find them really useful for creating natural settings and I use brushes for tree tops, clumps of grass, and obviously, these Sakura Blossoms.

Come over to This Mortal Coil to read the graphic novels of Kamiko's adventures.

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