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Sheriff Hudson Hart

Portrait of an awesome RP gamer’s character for their birthday. Find his stories here

They’ll float and float

by Filopay

What art program and brushes do you use? I absolutely LOVE the texture of your line art, but am having trouble finding brushes that have that effect. Thanks i'll advance!

Heya! Thank you a ton! I use Photoshop for 2D stuff, even though I'm trying to get away from it but so far I found no other program that fits to my work flow as well as it. For 3D I use Blender and Zbrush, but I guess no one really sees all my 3D mockups and references haha. They do exist tho! For backgrounds and objects like swords or guns.

Here's a little overview of my brushes, at least the ones I use the most. I actually don't consider myself someone who does lineart. It feels so crackly and rough, and I never really do lines with the intention of uh, using them. I mostly paint and render and then draw lines on top of that, which I then overpaint, then draw again, etc etc. Rinse and repeat. Until I end up liking what I see. I use brushes with colour jitter literally everywhere. Blue and yellow in the sheet above. The dark green one between them is some brush I picked up from Luke Mancinis deviantart page almost a decade ago and I never stopped using it. The teal one next to yellow is just a normal hard roundbrush. Red, purple, light green and orange are just additional brushes I use a lot, but 99% of my work is done with the ones in the top row. "Plants - Devin" are the foliage brushes from Devin Elle Kurtz which are really awesome to block in foliage really quick.

And here's a little close up in how I use some of them. A millenia ago in internet time recording I read on Alector Fencer's deviantart page that using less brushes and getting used to them is much better than overusing a hundred and never really getting the hang of them. Use what feels most natural to you and your work flow, don't be afraid to experiment and try out new stuff every once in a while. For example, the round brush with colour jitter was made by myself because I was so frustrated in not finding anything that gives me a nice and quick texture while also being clean to work with.

clown behavior tbh

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by filopay