#found this really nice brush for csp

[velociheroviridi]

doodling some boiiis today

[lexicog]

fuck it. kuchipatchi grow a flower

[be-good-to-bugs]

i love firealpaca but the color picker is SUCH a pain. how hard is it to have value adjuster things??

[ambersky0319]

I may or may not

have discovered

some brushes that I'm very much looking forward to using in future art things

[otaku553]

What pens do you use? Assuming the program is csp

If you’re asking about what I use for these little doodles,,,,

It’s goodnotes actually lmao

I use the fountain pen at 0.35 mm thickness! It’s got a really nice sort of thinning effect for higher speeds and it’s a vector program so you don’t lose any resolution when resizing or moving things around :)

If you’re asking about my usual art brushes, then they’re on procreate! I need to reorganize them at some point but most of the ones I use can be found on gumroad or by searching for ‘brushes’ on my page!

[annoyed-galaxy]

You know I had to do it.

Barbie and Ken meme featuring Albion’s notorious sibling duo, Logan and Aelyn.

What did they do? Aelyn blew up Reaver’s mansion probably. Property damage, arson, the likes. Just because she’s queen doesn’t mean she can get away with arson.

Meme format and details under the cut.

If you haven’t seen it, here’s the meme.

When I saw people drawing their characters like this for the first time, I knew I had to do this. There are so many characters I could have chosen, but it’s been a while since I drew the Fable siblings so thought it was perfect.

I’ve been using procreate lately since I got an iPad solely for that and have been trying to find brushes similar to the old ones I had on CSP. I’ve had no luck, but have a lot of other cools brushes that may help me develop new art styles. Including the above style. I found these really nice ink and ink wash brushes and really wanted to use them. I think they work wonderfully for silly meme art like this. It has a very nice cartoon look to it. It’s also just been super amazing to be able to draw wherever. I have more motivation to draw since I can carry this tablet with me everywhere. Much less of a hassle to hook up a drawing tablet to my computer and then actually have to sit down at the computer and draw.

Some details about the drawings themselves: When trying to decide what to replace the LAPD with, I wondered what would the police force in Albion be considered. I went with ARG which is for Albion Royal Guard. Because who else can arrest the queen and prince? I also wanted to make the plates look wooden since Albion is y’know, ye olden days. And then there’s the height things. If you look closely, you can see what I headcanon Logan’s height to be and what Aelyn’s height to be. I could have left those background pieces out, but I thought it would be cool to add that little bit of detail. I also wanted it to look like the names and such were painted on so that one brush came in clutch to add to the aesthetic.

And finally, as always, here are the lovely speedpaints.

(I am just now realizing that I have not drawn Aelyn and Logan in a serious piece at all. They’ve always been shitposts. Might need to fix that…)

[yb-four]

BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

Shivers as a human! Design notes / process below the cut.

Electrochemistry / Visual Calculus / Composure

I did a lot of design work for this one! I wanted to incorporate ideas from the cloths that give shivers (sans heimdall shirt couldnt really make that one work) and the suzerainty flag, as well as the bow collector thought. i was also really fixated on the ideas of having the electric shock be shaped like the antler (from the resistance) as well as her having twin braids (came to me in a dream). I also wanted her to look a bit ragged, and have red hair similar to cuno & cunoesse because i like to think that the city is very in touch with them.

Ended up going with the (modified) fourth design with the fur from the coat, the short cape with colour from the flag but also shape from the rcm cloak, the scarf around the waist, and the bow collector as a charm hanging onto the strings holding the cape together. The last one didn't really show up very well in the final product, but it's a detail i really like.

(The designs are messy and on a lined bg bc I did them during class in a note taking app lmao)

Pose thumbnails! i set out thinking for sure i would be doing the top right one bc it just felt right to me, but i did more anyways and ended up with one that i liked more. goes to show that you should always try sketching out a few options!

lineart + colour test. i decided to change my usual lineart brush for a cleaner feel since i wanted to heavily render this one so that the city painting wouldnt look out of place, and boy was that a good idea. i also found a really nice brush set for painting and like. holy shit !! its so good. i went so hard on this piece partly bc the brush made painting feel really rewarding. I also learned about the models in csp and how to pose them while working on this piece! i learned a lot working on this and its probably the piece im most proud of.

[scribz-ag24]

Do you have a set process for coloring and rendering / adding texture to your art? If so, would it be alright for me to ask what goes into that process? I'd love to learn how an artist I admire goes about their work!

Omg I'm so flattered, I'll try my best to explain it!! ^^

Tho, okayyy, I apologize beforehand for how incoherent this might be, since I don't really have a set process at all and mostly I fake it 'til i make it haha. I'm the first to admit that I don't have a ver consistent method and that shows in how irregular in quality my art can look, even inside the general sketchy look.

(Btw sorry if some of the fanart i use for example doesn't make you comfortable but I've tried to find the best examples for each type of coloring haha)

I'll start with the brushes I rely on the most, tho I admit i made the mistake of downloading too many brushes and textures so I might use others on rare occassions xddd

These are basically the brushes I use the most. The "mezclador redondo" is just CSP's default paintbrush and I only tweaked it to find sth I liked and felt comfortable with for both lining and painting

As you can see here I only used one layer for lines and other three for each of the guys' colors. I colored it all with the default brush (tho unfortunately I lost the settings I used for this drawing in particular and haven't found them again rip). In drawings like this I just do a sketch, clean the lines (no lineart) and then paint it. After the base color I start laying out different hues to make the coloring more interesting.

This one was the same. One layer for coloring, manually adding lighter hues (see the more light and yellowish color on grovyle's left leg compared to the shadow) or darker tones. I try to add color to the shadows as well to make them feel less flat, and an airbrush in overlay tends to help with that (tho here I just used a brush).

Here you can see that I often paint over the lines on another layer to correct mistakes in the "lineart" lol. I also applied an airbrush (layer mode overlay) over celebi to make her more bright. I wanted to put this one to show that coloring doesn't have to be detailed to look nice enough. Here Celebi basically has no shadows at all but the tone of the drawing makes her look cute anyways imo ^^

In these two you can see adjustements over the full image again (yellow layer), but I also wanted to show that I don't have a set number of layers either, it depends on how many I feel like using. Again, sorry for the lack of consistency but im too lazy to have a proper method lmao

I will also use harder brushes and tone changes sometimes, instead of blending them with less dense brushes. I am also fond of adding hard lighting in some drawings. You can experiments with it on a top layer and delete it if it doesn't fit, so it's always worth a try.

Another thing I recommend is studying and copying artists you admire or like. Add things from their styles into yours, see how they work with proportions and try to use that in your own art. It has helped me a lot and, without looking to fully copy anyone's style, it does give you some ideas of how you wish your drawing would look, which motivates me (when it doesn't depress me lol)

Finally, the texturing isn't consistent either. I use one of CSP's/Downloaded texture packs, put a grainy texture on the canvas, set it to overlay and adjust the opacity until I'm satisfied. In these two images you can see I am not consistent in coloring even in the same comic lmao. But we are doing this for fun, so I think experimentation is always sth worth exploring ^^

And I think that's all I have to say. I don't control color theory at all, so I can't really explain how I choose colors. I look up some tutorials on youtube and pretend I understand lol. Ig the one thing I tend to do a lot is changing hues in a base color to make it look less flat, the same as with shadows.

Anyways I hope this was helpful or that it at least waas what you asked for haha. Thank you for the interest!! :DD

[sajiri]

Havent found anything quite like the marker brush I had made recently in Sai 2, but I think this one looks nice too.

Finished lineart of my G’raha sketch from this morning. Gonna give a try to colouring this tomorrow, I’m really excited to play around with that in CSP now!

[zheida]

i LOVE your art and was just wondering if you wouldnt mind sharing what program and pen/pencil you use, i struggle to find a pen i enjoy drawing with and i like how loose and easy and soft your art is!

THANK TOU SO MUCH AAAA 😢💜💜 I appreciate that!! And, it really depends what art you're looking at I feel like I experiment with different things a lot. Some are drawn on a program called drawpile, some are in csp with a bunch of different things. The pencil looking ones are done with enpitsuP Brushes by @pharanbrush and some others might be the sai 2 brush found here (I think)

Mostly though, I really recommend pharan's brushes he's a friend of mine and he makes really nice ones that are pretty comfy imo. But I kinda jump around a bunch (at least lately)

[stephdragonness]

✨From Sketch to FullArt.

✨As any artist, always good to start practice pose's and ounce get good one.. thats where magic starts.

Started using Vector layer help fix lines, as well ones need thickening or narrowing, really nice how makes lines look clean and easy fix mistakes.

Good tip i found make soft lighting on edges colors use burn / glow over brushes effect (Blending mode on CSP), plus use blur/smudge tool make between soft and cell shade.

wanted show process of this piece,💕 wish i did time-lapse of this but was to into drawing him in the process.

🎨

Hope inspire more artist out there keep Drawing, practice and always enjoy what you create even if you think not perfect as long drawing it gives some joy.✨ specially if is your fav character or F/O makes your day all better.❤

[pivsketch]

today's 45 minute work warmup was this pleasant architecture photo from gord.cook on instagram. it was nice working off something besides a fisheye landscape from mapcrunch. missed a few spots that needed that darker floor colors on it, but im ok w/ where we stopped here. with more time i think i would just start painting over everything, polishing out the lines, and gettin all the texture in. all the fun time-intensive stuff

i actually enjoyed working on this one a lot more than the previous ones, maybe its because i incorporated more "tools and techniques"? discussion about that and a timelapse video under the cut:

i started using a thirds grid "out of laziness" recently but honestly? i think i dig it a lot. the grids i used on many of the previous environment studies were really dense (csp has a max grid size of 1000 pixels... wtf) and i think that mightve actually made it harder to place things in the space. i definitely get much less distracted with the comparatively looser rule-of-thirds grid, and i dont get too stressed out/obsessed about placing everything EXACTLY correct (this was a huge problem and i couldnt figure out how to stop). things actually end up matching pretty close to the source photo in the end, anyway, so its a win-win kind of result

oh yeah, unfortunately CSP doesn't have a percentage setting for the grid like photoshop does (it really really bothers me because i used that a lot, idk, maybe i should send in a feature request or something). i looked into this a while back and found the best you can do to get a 33.33% division grid is to set up an auto-action that'll generate a 3x3 comic page panel layout with no gutters on your canvas. its not dynamic so youd have to reapply it if you crop your canvas differently, and its a layer so you have to deal with that, but hey! better than nothing. and it works pretty dang well despite that.

to get all those straight lines i maxed out post correction on my brush, which reduces every brush stroke to a flat line that goes from the start of the stroke to the end. i think it feels cozier than using a line tool or the shift line-snap thing, because you get a liiiiittle bit of pen pressure out of it. plus, removes the temptation to hold shift and snap it 90 degrees. those funky little off-kilter angles add character, or whatever. this was one of those things that i knew you could do but i never actually used it-- now that i have, i understand its utility. i'll definitely be using it anytime i need to draw a lot of hard surfaces now

[elstreem]

Aroace colors Inkling I made in Procreate for practice!

I've been trying to figure it out so I'm not making any good art to upload yet. This is the first thing I made that looks ok, and it's still pretty rough compared to what I usually do.

My experience working with an ipad below because wow that got long.

My dad got me an Ipad to replace my 2014 Samsung Galaxy because it's getting some battery issues but uh...I haven't used an Apple product in forever. It's been two weeks and using an ipad still feels like someone sawed off my hand and stapled it back on :') I think it's a combination of having to learn to use new hardware and software, but it's been so tough trying to make digital art on this thing.

I wish I could use Medibang since it's what I'm most used to, but for some reason the pen I'm using won't register pressure with Medibang, so I have to use Procreate. I changed the pressure settings to work with Procreate, but it's still weird and hardly works the way I want it to, so I'm not sure if it's something with the 3rd party pen I'm using, or something else. We did order a paperlike screen so hopefully that fixes some issues for me. I never had to use one for my Galaxy even though it had a glossy screen cover, but its stylus and the pen for Ipads have different tips and it's not easy using the pen to draw.

I had an easier time working with my wacom and CSP, but then again CSP and Medibang have similar layouts so it's not too difficult to adjust. Procreate is nice, but it's so different from what I'm used to that it feels like I'm arguing with someone just using its basic functions lol. I found the default brushes so difficult to use, too. My dumb monkey brain isn't flexible enough for this thing.

Kind of a rant, but it's just me complaining and it's a matter of my getting used to it. I did manage to make this, so hopefully I can consider Procreate as my next tool, But in the meantime, I still have my Galaxy and Medibang on it, so that's still where I'm mainly working. I reserve CSP for really big digital works or more complicated paintings since...it's a hassle setting up my pc and wacom tablet lol.

[invasive]

I apologize if my ask isn't related a lot to your blog, truly I am sorry.

What program & brushes do you use? And are there MediBang or Ibis Paint brushes like those brushes? How do you do coloring? How did you find out of Rise of TMNT? Your redraws & designs of them are amazing!

Thank you! I'll number my answers so they're easier to read. (also my blog isn't strictly fandom or w/e so don't worry)

I use CSP, and almost always use the thick sketch brush from this pack ^^ https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1738915 Similar brushes would be a rough G-pen or pencil brush probably? For colors, I just use whatever is lying around but I use this brush often. https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1853846

For coloring, I don't have a process most of the time. For simple drawings, I just do flats and slap on a few filters so it looks nice. I'll also use a desaturated purple on a Multiply layer for shadows + yellow on an Add layer for light if I want some easy shading. For my painted art, I don't use Multiply/Add layers and pick out colors myself, but it's kind of hard to explain that process lol. Usually shadows tend toward blue/light tends toward yellow BUT I like using different colors to keep things slightly interesting

I found out about Rise via my amazing friend @submech ^^ we binge-watched it in the span of a week and it was really nice getting to watch it with him

[the-everlasting-ash]

I'm literally in love with your artstyle ahhhhh, if you're comfortable answering, what brushes you use?

Hi!! For one, thank you so much ❤️ and two- I apologize for the more than belated reply- I don’t mind answering! The problem is that I tend to dabble in a lot of different brushes and I’m constantly exploring them. At the moment my main painting software is procreate so I’ll mainly focus on that. I’ve bought and downloaded many over the years and while it’s hard for me to share them all I can share a snapshot of some of my main brushes in procreate specifically-

Max brushes are sold in sets (you need to purchase these) a couple of these are in the program- and the ultra soft brush is a favorite I believe still free but you’ll need to do some digging on the internet to find it (found it through earlier procreate forums(?) also I will say this- if you happen to have some photoshop brushes (even tool brushes- they just need to be converted into the right file) you can import them into procreate as .abr file

If you use CSP there’s an entire asset library where a lot of it is free (you can spend hours exploring free brushes through this) if you have Photoshop- Kyle brushes are great (don’t have cc though so I’m out of the loop of what’s current in PS)

Also! For my traditional watercolors- those water tube brushes are nice (the kind that holds water in the barrel/handle of the brush) and I’ve also been dabbling into more higher end brushes like the black velvet and Princeton Neptune series- they are both synthetic I believe but take a bit getting used to!

I hope this helps! I’m sorry that I can’t really get into all of it- my advice is to explore as much as you can- don’t worry too much about forcing things to work- practice with the ones that don’t click right away and just have fun!

Also- behold my abdominal labeling and organization;;

[artofzaaga]

The brushes I am using (currently)

Hello! Today I'm sharing my current go-to brushes. I tend to change between brushes quite often, but I've found a set that works for me and my current painting style. All of these except for one is free to download btw! (most are for CSP but some are available for Photoshop/Procreate as well)

Sketching

For sketching I like it when the brush has a bit of texture, but it's still clean enough that it can work as lineart. This set has two brushes, a 2B and 6B pen, both are really nice!

Painting

This set has been my go-to for painting for a while now and I really love it, has a nice variety of brushes but not too many of them so you won't get overwhelmed. Also has a pretty nice Inker brush for lineart! I remember getting it for free but seems like it costs something now, nevertheless still very cheap for the quality of the brushes.

Special brushes

For grass, flowers, foliage etc I've recently started using Devin Elle Kurtz's brushsets and I can't recommend them enough!! I love experimenting with these so much, there's plenty of variety and different kinds of plants, grass, trees, etc. I also highly recommend her Rake Brush Pack!

I've also fallen in love with tone brushes and this set has worked for me well!

And that's it! I have a lot of other brushes downloaded but these are the ones I find myself coming back to. If you're using CSP, I highly recommend browsing through the asset store - there are a lot of good brush sets available :>