#firealpaca bitmap brush

[fpacatuto]

New ink pen brushes in the FA store

Thin ink pooling pen

Cotton swab ink pooling pen

My tests with them: the think ink pooling pen has its own custom texture with it as well, "Bokoboko2"

Firealpaca (EN) on Twitter: https://x.com/firealpaca_en/status/1723146526573429171?s=20

[pespillo]

Rake Brushes for firealpaca !

i made these recently as a way to get more texturing into my art, you can see the PNGs in the middle of this post , you can use my firealpaca/medibang settings for em by adding em on the brush menu -> add bitmap brush (file) . But you can probably also add em to CSP or procreate and fiddle around with the settings, watercolor settings recommended ! have fun :)

[bloobydabloob]

do you mind sharing your knockoff firealpaca heavypaint brushes lol... id love to use them myself

Sure. There is only one but here are the settings & the brush, it’s a bitmap pen. Just mess around with color/hue jitter for desired effect.

I don’t know if tumblr save works like that though so here is a Google drive link to download the original png just in case.

[twentythousandvolts]

i need to fucking make a firealpaca brush to make drawing cables easier i swear to fucking god i swear to god man.help meeeeee. therez one in the like brush store thing thatz technically made for ropes but it Would Work ... EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT I DRAW REALLY SMALL AND ITZ LIKE 50PX DEFAULT WITH A BITMAP TEXTURE !!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! 💥💥💥💥

[velichorus-k]

Hey there! I love your stuff! I showed my friend your work and they are also an artist. They were curious what program you use and what pens?

Hi, thank you! I use good ol' firealpaca :) -my main brush for sketching is the default marker; it's a rectangular angled brush? V standard, p good pen pressure variation. -to render I use a soft roundbrush... I honestly don't know if it's a default brush or if I got it from somewhere?? But it's a bitmap watercolour brush at 80 colour mixing level and 30 complement level. I don't really know what that means cause I kinda just play around with settings until things look right, but basically any colour-mixing brush with a flat edge and faded ends.

[phonydoubleshock]

Adding custom textures for brushes in FireAlpaca without using a bitmap brush. (tested with SE) tutorial

So I discovered that adding your own textures is possible. Haven't seen a lot of people talk about this before, so I'll add a quick tutorial. Go to your FireAlpaca edition's AppData folder (I use Windows, sorry! I don't know other OS) and there should be a "brush_texture" folder. In there, you will find 5 files that are the textures included with FireAlpaca.

They are simply normal MDP files that you can open with the program itself. Open one in FireAlpaca and then you can see what's inside. (make sure to backup them first just in case)

From here, you can see that the bottom layer is a 8bit image. The layer's names are their translations for each language. You can replace the bottom layer with another 8bit image (color images don't work) and title it starting with the letters "ja:" and whatever (it doesn't seem to need to be actual Japanese). The "en:" layer is the English translation, so replace it's title with the appropriate name for your custom texture starting with "en:" (I think you have to keep it as an empty 1bit layer, so only change the name). Save it as a new MDP file with the name starting with "preset_" in that same folder you found the original mdp file, and your new texture should immediately be visible in the brush texture settings.

This is how it worked for me. The developers should really add an easy GUI for it. I think this will allow for more varied grain textures. Hope it works for you.

[rockintapper]

i found the bitmap brush option in firealpaca

[cherrysmokesaconha]

psst. hey. what kinda brush did you make. curious fella here. (i totally don't want it

oh oh!! it's a brush for firealpaca!!

it's like a lineart/sketch brush (i will mostly use for lineart) and it's awesome!! i was drawing with it!!

here is what i used tpo make it

to add it, first you save this image.

then you click in here

(it's in portuguese but it's basically "add brush (bitmap))

and then you put this configs

and then u have it

hope this helps!!

[strawberry-seal77]

what have I done

[yenpondering]

been working on these firealpaca brushes the past few days! 

1-5 as you can tell are different drawn styles of a braid, 6-8 are supposed to be black hair textures but I’m still fumbling around on them, 9 is a bead chain for jewellery, and 10 is a chainlink fence! 

They’re still work in progresses but feel free to let me know which brushes you like best!

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

And 3 more brushes made, using my family's hair as ref this time!

They're all free to use, just don't like take credit for em or sell em (cause that'd be rude). Hope y'all get some good use out of them!

And you wanna leave a tip here's my kofi :D

[fpacatuto]

hi how do you color the rose brush from firealpaca? I looked forever and i couldnt find or figure out how. I when i click apply background color it just turns transparent. I just want pretty roses :< Thank you v much for your help!

Hi, apologies for the week-long lateness! I was sick but was also trying to figure out which rose brush you meant.

Regardless of what brush you use, if it is a bitmap brush (uses a png or JPG image or a .MDP firelpaca file as a base), there should be this option for changing the color here in the brush settings:

"Apply Foreground color"

When you switch this on and OK the brush settings, then you should be able. Results vary based on the contents of the brush (whether it only uses lineart, has shading, how fark/saturated the original colors are etc). I used the carnation brush from brush store as an example, but you should be able to get similar results with your rose brush.

You can see that the "Apply FG color" version on the left in blue, has made the entire brush slightly more transparent, losing some of the detail of the original. If your rose brush is similarly more detailed, and you would like to keep this detail, what you can do, is open the brush from the brush folder (Help>open confiq folder and go to folder named "brush_bitmap") so you change the image colors via Filter>Hue, save as a new file and then make that a brush. But if you do not havethis sort of detail (as pictured above) or simply do not need it, you can try the first option of going into brush settings and finding "Apply FG color"

Hope yhis is helpful!

edit(16.05); this reply under the post is helpful too! you can always paint those roses and then use the filter menu options to change the hue.

[4nnih6]

You can get my Firealpaca ink brushes on Gumroad now!

I've posted most of them here and on dA before for free, but I thought it would be nice to put them up there as well!

Gumroad supports NFTs so I will try to post them up on itchio instead. You can follow my work here: https://4nnih6.itch.io/

[aghhtdraws]

Been doing quick brush tests with some of the newer brushes from Firealpaca - you can preview them on their website at "Materials" and you can download them fro free from the program directly from the Brush window - click "New Brush" button > Show Brush Store.

Some of these FX and traditional tool brushes are really surprising! I find it kind of fun to just loose myself in trying these out while my brains on rest from having ideas. Just trying out different colors and layer modes is somehow relaxing.

[rabbit-head-007]

Below the cut is a huge list of all the bitmap brushes I prefer to use in firealpaca, with their settings and original png’s. Hopefully you will find them quite useful. There are a total of 12 brushes to look through!

2H Pencil

6B Pencil

Stipple Brush (a personal favorite for subtle shading)

Half-Tone Lines

*Cherry Pattern

*(for those who are new to fire alpaca and do not know what the hue jitter or color jitter setting do, for now just set them to zero for this brush and all following brushes)

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The following are brushes I have not made myself. I will include links to the original creators where you can find and download the .png’s needed 

Block Charcoal

can be found here:          https://nerdgasrnz.tumblr.com/post/80357426317/hey-firealpaca-users-i-got-presents-for-u-so-if

Charcoal Stick (another personal favorite, I use it for lining)

can be found here: https://everythingfirealpaca.tumblr.com/post/75177262993/an-apology-and-brushes

Splot Brush

can be found here: https://twitter.com/tk_subboi/status/1017205902053658625?lang=en

Static Brush (great for textures, I like to use it as a shading brush, personally speaking)

can be found here:        https://gronhund.tumblr.com/post/156512048516/static-brush-i-created-for-firealpaca

Cloud Brush

can be found here:  https://leslielumarie.tumblr.com/post/146668929401/would-you-ever-consider-putting-your-brushes-from

Scatter Brush (unable to find the original link, so I will provide the png for now - if anyone has a link to the original creator, please send it to me)

Polygon Brush (also unable to find original creator)

[poobit]

Celestial confetti brush for firealpaca !

a spread brush inspired/based on the Collector from The Owl House (specifically some drawings Dana did)

you can download the zip. here -> Google Drive

itll include the settings and both the mdp. file n an mdb. file as well, install via Brush menu -> Add brush (bitmap) -> pick the mdp., for mdb. just drag and drop onto program´s brush list to install !