Hi! Thanks for your page, it's hard finding resources for Firealpaca online.
Do you know how to make roller brushes? I'm trying to make my own roller brushes to help speed up my drawing workflow, but I just can't understand how they work.
Hello! Roller brushes don't really have an official tutorial as far as I know, but I've only been looking through google search, and following the official accounts, so maybe there is something out there. So I'll do a little explainer on roller brushes, based on my own experience.
Basically, when you look at official roller brushes, you'll notice the image can be quite long. The image used can be distorted by the roller brush engine, even if the image itself is straight. The brushes also always go from left to right, horizontal, so the brush can "roll" properly:
If you want your stroke to be continuous and always connected, you should make sure that the left and right edges connect. These vine brushes for example, because they're connected at the edges, these stalks look like the can be never-ending.
However, when using roller brushes, if you do more loopy, shorter or quicker lines, instead of continuous and long ones, you can start to notice that the brush cuts off a bit in some sections (bottom right corner of this green example image)
When making something more natural looking, it can also often start to look a bit obvious where the canvas cut-off of the brush is, so my tip based on my own an official brushes, is to make the cutoff very exact, but also ideally, avoid realistic brushes (with a preference more to "template" style brushes like the vine stalk examples here), or to make the cutoff intentional (like I've done with these "ink roller" brushes here), so it doesn't look too strange when the brush is not used for smoother/straighter lines. Hope those tips help a bit!
also, so sorry for getting to your ask so late! tumblr has not been showing me notifications anymore (unless it's bots) and yours seems to have gotten lost in all that.
