#enpitsup

[pharanbrush]

Hey, I was wondering if you have a brush recommendation for CSP brushes for Lineart with good line weight? I'm trying to improve the weight of my lines, but I'm having a hard time finding brushes with the flexibility I'm looking for

That's a good question. There are all sorts of ways line weight is used and the right brush is different for each genre and style of drawing, I'd say.

To start: A lot of my lineart brushes are adjusted with slightly LESS brush size dynamics because I always felt like the original default CSP brushes (like the Mapping Pen and G-Pen) gave an unrealistic and uncontrollable amount just based on the their pressure settings.

Some people do use them well for specific styles, so they're not inherently bad. But I definitely think they're not friendly to beginners or people who just wanna pick up a pen and go draw rather than obsess over the precise way they're pushing down on their pen.

More recent versions of Clip Studio Paint actually came with some new default brushes, including "Real G-Pen", which had pressure settings that felt more right to me. But it's a little noisy so its uses are a bit more specific.

I have a brush set included with EnpitsuP called Superclean Linework. Those are the ones I designed as cleanup brushes for anime-ish looking art. They come in several flavors: Densy, Softie, Smoothy, Sang. I varied them based on how I saw different artists preferred their lines: a bit on the sharp side? Slightly blurry? With a little bit of opacity fade? A little more line variation? Among these, Sang has the largest amount of size response.

Ultimately, it may be a little bit of both a subjective experience and depend on what your hand/tablet/driver settings/style preferences are like. If you're having trouble finding a brush for this purpose, I think you should hone in on if you're not finding the right brush because every brush seemed too difficult to control, or you can't seem to get results you like, or you can't find one with a feel that matches the physical tool you're used to.

I think it's also worth noting that some artist's styles also rely a lot on them just changing their brush size setting depending on what part they're drawing. So you may end up needing a brush that has less pressure-size variation than you expect. My recommendation is always to look very closely when learning from someone else's linework example. Try to achieve it yourself side-by-side and see where it doesn't quite match up and ask yourself why. Or ask others why.

Of course, there are a bunch of other "lineweighty" brushes too outside of this genre of mostly-thin lineart.

[pharanbrush-log]

EnpitsuP Jumbo WIP

Currently testing a blunted jumbo pencil.

Tentative name: EnpitsuP Jumbo

I'm trying to incorporate some of the useful aspects of a jumbo Staedler pencil I recently got.

Surprisingly, the bigger pencils have a super noticeable taper to them but I'm not sure how/if I want to add it in digital form. (ie, what combination of pressure and tilt I want it to respond against and what the curves are)

[pharan-art]

[akuma-homura]

the only downside to making videos for my covers is. that i have to draw all the assets myself. if i could just pick and grab i'd be going about things so much quicker jhgfdfghj

[zheida]

im just curious (u dont need to answer / publish if u dont want to !) but do you sketch with a brush called analog pencil on csp.... the texture looks so similar to the brush i use and im trying to add more looseness to my lines so i was just wondering if it was the Same...

oh nope! i pretty much exclusively use my friend @pharanbrush brushes for csp these days, the one i use is enpitsu-p, its a replicated mechanical pencil! mine is kinda customized with how i like the pressure but its not far off from the default settings

u can buy em here >> https://pharan.gumroad.com/l/EnpitsuP?layout=profile

i rly reccommend them, pharan works rly hard on these brushes

[wyrvel]

DROP YOUR COMIC BRUSHES SENPAI‼️

HIMOG STRIDE POWER (HIMOG ZARA STRENGTH) - If my lineart looks really bold without much weight I'm using this. I prefer to use it for colour pieces. Hmm...'s pens are all super fucking good you could get the full inking suite from just them

Zaka/Sara pen - Another Hmm... icon. Use on larger canvases. Grainy as Hell

Gpen-Poi - Standard inkwork. I forgot how good this pen was when I started drawing B&W inks and I'm regretting it. Staple pen, good for smaller canvas space

Artist 21 - The hatching effects I use on the blacks in a lot of my comics come from this pack! I don't use the pencils themselves much though LOL. Has great tools but im scared to use them.

EnpitsuP - The pencils I use come from this pack. Extremely hyper-realistic.

Krupuk pack and Tapioca pack - But speaking of Pharan, GET THESE BRUSHES. Literally every type of medium you can fucking think of for dirt cheap. Greatest deal in the history of CSP brushes

Drawn Lines & Drawn Lines 2 - !! MUST HAVE !! for natural BG inks. There's a fuckton of these and they add so much natural jitter to your lines. I haven't been using them because i forgor 💀 Pack 1 is for lineart, Pack 2 is for shading

Dirty and Shadow Lines - Similar to Drawn Lines, a large pack of high-quality inks for adding character to your backgrounds. They go together very well.

[spaceagecats]

hi i don't go here but your art ended up on my dash and it's just lovely, may i ask what brushes you used for your last piece? i love the watercolor effect and the lines are real nice too

Aw thank you so much!! So glad you liked it!! I used these watercolor brushes and the line brush was "RoughPaper EnpitsuP" from this pack!

For the watercolor brushes I definitely recommend kind of layering the colors, cause they're pretty transparent. I'll often do a layer that's the "actual" color of whatever the object is and then have another layer that acts as kind of an underpainting to make it pop more, e.g. for this guy his pink outfit has 1 layer for the light pink and another layer below that with some light blues and yellows ;O

hope this helps!!

[rttnpnkpmpkn]

What is your fav digital brush to draw?

I got more than one and thanks to the peeps who commissioned me in the past, I managed to have more of a footing to experiment with paid brushes! 🙏❤️

I'm very fickle and prone to changes, so it might not be the same next time but here are what I'm obsessed with so far!

On Procreate, my favorite brushes would be the sample set from TrueGrit Texture Supply for their halftone and texture brushes (which I did pay a $15 license later on so I can use for commercial works), and these free-to-download sets in Gumroad.

I used the latter religiously throughout the years for sketching and inking, as it was what got me dedicated to continue using procreate!

On Clip Studio, I really like this [Free] set because for something that looks like a basic brush, it is as smooth as butter! 🧈

The second brush is my favorite to do typography and sound fx in comics. I love the expressiveness and gritty texture.

Both, you've mainly seen in my use for my YBF arts.

This one below is worth 10 Clippy, and I love how clean and gritty it is! You've seen me using this in more recent Broken Colors arts.

I also have some favorites from here [PAID]:

For the price, you get a lot more for your money! These two are a favorite from there, and I'm a big fan of the pencils!

Hope that answers your question and have a good one! 🌞

[pharanbrush]

EnpitsuP Update! (2023 Feb)

Bichael BorupenP, CharwellP Side, other side pencils and tools and more!

You can read more about the changes in the official release notes here: https://pharanbrush.github.io/enpitsup-changelog/

You can also read more about BorupenP in my brush log: https://pharanbrush-log.tumblr.com/post/708760186194624512/

If you already got the EnpitsuP set, you can find the updated file in your Gumroad or Kofi, or from the original download link in your email.

This is also a reminder that I will be raising the price of EnpitsuP soon. It will stay discounted through Feb 16 on Ko-fi.

On gumroad, if you need to get it there, use offer code BICHAEL to get the original price.

Vanilla extract!

[pharanbrush]

Currently in early access for Ko-fi supporters, as well as a bunch of other brushes.

Bichael BorupenP and Rice Idea

EnpitsuP Morning 2022-Q4

[pharanbrush-log]

(oc Nera belongs to @/erojiji3)

I've been studying limited-tone colors and shadows and figured Leif was a good tool to use. But it wasn't doing what I needed it to do, or even what I imagined I originally wanted it to do, so I decided to make a few new brushes, as the new Leif set. (retiring most of the original ones in the process)

Currently just calling the new set Leif 2.

The new brushes, named "Leif Paint" (with variations on its shape) have been coming along nicely.

Yesterday, I drew this thing and was enjoying how the brushes were working for it.

Its primary purpose, making dabs of paint look leafy and generically brushy and nice, is definitely already there.

As a paint-sketch and finalized painting tool, especially for shaping shadows, I think I still need to test some more but results have been promising so far.

I also made a separate drawing version of Leif Paint that may just end up in the EnpitsuP set. I guess it should just be included in the main Leif set too.

[pharanbrush-log]

EnpitsuP Sidesketch 01

I saw this pencil brush that I wanted to replicate and I went at it for a good few days til I reached 3 variants of it.

CharwellP Sidesketch most closely resembles what I was trying to imitate, which is sort of an opacity/density-responsive rough sketching brush. Using it for a few things, it feels like the kind of brush I'd put as the default pencil brush for a tablet app. If you had nothing else, this is at least sort of a least-common-denominator brush. Not too focused on a natural look. Not too digital.

IroEnpitsuP Sidesketch is a less dense version of it, which is a bit annoying if you want an opaque pencil, but it ended up looking like a nice colored pencil brush so I decided to keep it as a separate version.

QuackwellP Sidesketch uses the same brush tip but acts more like what Quackwell was supposed to be: a rough drawing pencil.

I'm somehow vacillating between being really happy with this brush and second-guessing its usability. I'll have to make a few more things with it so, at the very least, I have stuff to point to to say "it works for these things".

It's nothing like a mechanical pencil which I tend to prefer, and I know some people do too.

^^ OC Kayden belongs to @wonder-kya

(Log above was from July 2022)

These new pencils have been added to EnpitsuP as

AshwellP Side, CharwellP Side and BeakwellP Side.

QuackwellP Side is under reconsideration.

[pharanbrush]

EnpitsuP - Aug 2023 Update

I updated EnpitsuP, on gumroad and ko-fi, to include some of the brushes that were previously supporter early access.

This is also the update that reorganizes the files into a simpler/flatter folder structure that's hopefully less overwhelming to get your head around especially for new users.

But I'm still feeling a bit too frazzled to think of like... marketing for it, like sample images. So it was a bit unceremonious.

I think I'll eventually get to it though.

[pharanbrush-log]

just messing around with Bichael BorupenP

I haven't used it in weeks and I forgot how fun it is to use.

[pharanbrush]

Tail Tzu Smooth Pen is the smooth version of the scruffy Tail Tzu Pen featured on the EnpitsuP sample brushes image.

It's currently part of my EnpitsuP drawing brush pack for Clip Studio Paint.

Ko-fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/s/38b435014c

gumroad: https://pharan.gumroad.com/l/EnpitsuP

[pharanbrush-log]

I need to release these and a few other brushes this month (graduating them from supporter early access), but I've been kinda feeling all over the place the past couple of months .

More neutral/tonal versions of some side-pencils I released earlier this year. Those original ones were kinda too streaky for covering large areas so I took the edge off of the brush stamp.

I guess the eventual sample should compare the side ones from the unlabeled ones.