Hi pookie🥹 as a newbie kind of getting used to digital art coming from a self taught traditional artist in colored pencil realism, I was wondering what brushes you use if you use procreate and what brushes your bestie uses too for the collabs if they don’t mind sharing and giving tips? Bc the Parry collab one you two did fed me and im curious how your bestie does Paul’s hair like that😭 blonde!Paul my beloved aka if you both use the same app as I do, if you don’t mind sharing some secrets/art tips🥹👉🏻👈🏻
Hey! We’re more than happy to share!
Sophie’s (@/horizons.art on insta) is super simple. She exclusively uses the Tinderbox brush which you can find below! All sketching, line art, and coloring is done with that!
My brushes are a bit more complicated. I switch between sketching pencil (a custom brush from another artist, I can find the link if you’re interested) and 6B Pencil (can be found in the sketching section of the classic library), the Syrup brush (can be found in the inking section of the classic library) is what I use for base colors and also the brush I use for my stickers (line art and coloring), Nikko Rull (can be found in the painting section of the classic library) is what I use for the backgrounds (sometimes) and also when I just do full paintings, and finally Thick Pencil is what I use for rendering and what I used to use for line art like in the Parry collab (also a custom brush but I cannot seem to remember the source but I’ll dig if you’re interested). My line art now is generally done in Clip Studio Paint when I’m on my computer cause I do not enjoy doing line art on my iPad outside of my stickers lol.
It’s honestly so crazy cause since we’ve started our collabs our art has improved SO much cause we’re learning from each other. She used to hate coloring and I used to hate line art but we’ve both found joy in those things recently. So my biggest piece of advice is study the artists you like. Find the things you like about their art and use that to develop yours. Inspiration is a beautiful thing. And remember brushes don’t make the artist but will influence the final look! Trust that you’ll find your process soon enough. If there’s anything specific you’d like to know or anything please feel free to ask! I’m more than happy to share whatever I can.
