Basic Photoshop Brushes For Digital Painting

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  Step 1

  The first brush I used is Hard Round brush and I started with 9 Pixels in size. Make sure under the Window> Brushes> Shape Dynamics> Size Jitter's Control is under Pen Pressure. This brush is useful for inking and blocking basic colors.

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  Step 2

  The 2nd brush is the same with the 1st brush but I added more pressure under the "Other Dynamics." So make sure that the Opacity Jitter and the Flow Jitter are under Pen Pressure. I used this brush for sketching and occasional blending (ex: painting clouds)

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  Step 3

  The 3rd brush is the Chalk brush. This is the main brush that I used for most of my paintings, Just make sure to have the Other Dynamics > Opacity Jitter and the Flow Jitter under Pen Pressure to get that smooth blending.

• Step 4

  After creating each brush, I will save it by going to Window> Brush Presets> create new brush. I usually deleted all the default brushes that are on that brush preset and just kept all the ones I created. This is my current brush presets that I used on photoshop: Ethe's Photoshop Brushes http://thousandskies.com/s/ethe_slate_brush.abr feel free to download and load them to your brush preset window, there's a small menu on that window that lets you "Load Brushes..."

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  Step 5

  My rule of thumbs: I will always go for 3 shades of colors: light, mid tones, shadow. Here is the step by step basic painting that I always do. Not really a tutorial but you could see how I worked.

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Lumia 13th February 2013

Really helpfully for me. Thank you so much.

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One Morbid Little Thing · Belle Chasse, Louisiana, US 16th November 2012

Thank you for the tips...very helpful!!

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