Photoshop Brushes Masterpost

Photoshop brushes masterpost

Links to all the brushes I currently use (I often delete whole chunks of a brush pack but the ones I use come from these):

Hannes’ brushes

Shaddy’s brushes

Holepsi’s brushes

this one Pheberoni brush

Durian brushes**

this brush by SandroRybak

my brushes:

download link - the hair cheat brush*, the filthy pen for sketching lines (the lineart brush I’ve been using for the last few months), and the blobby marker for loose sketch shading

*This brush is derived from a much older brush I cannot track down. I also have a handful I think are from Linda Bergkvist and Kimushii that I cannot locate either the original abr set for (my backups from my old HD only seem to include a massive set of unlabeled, disorganized brushes I regularly used), or an active download link for. For obvious reasons I haven’t included them here, but I do still use a few of them in painting from time to time.

**This set is big. A little too big. Be ready to prune out all the ones in it you will never use. I personally prefer smaller, more focused sets, but I’ve been using a few of these very regularly so it seemed more proper to link it.

Hi! How do you feel about having line art in finished pieces? If it's bad, how do I manage to get away from that? When I ask for critiques people say "stop w the line art/you're too dependent on lines" but I never realized that was a problem??

Frankly, I think it’s amazing. If you can own something in art?  Do it. 

There are trends, esp among the GIT GUD crowd, that lend towards the sort of lineless vaguely-real painting style - if that’s what you want to do, I can lend some help on painting over your lines until they disappear. But it’s important, I think, to throw back at folks that those are industry/internet trends, and may not be a real thing in terms of quality. Do what you want, and if you want to do right now is lineart? Do that!

That said, what they might mean is that there is a tendency within younger/less-developed artists to rely on the lines to indicate where to shade (in a pillow-shading/coloring book fashion), which is an actual easily-corrected error. Basically, that error stems from “lines are the darkest shadow, I will use them as the darkest shadow for all shading.” The issue with this is that lines are stylistic - their placement draws really absurd levels of eye-attention to themselves. So any shadow you want to place identical to where the line is a shadow? Take a break on it. The line will do half the work on it’s own. Consider any and all shading as divorced from the line work.

It’s a weird leap of thought, but it helps to try the following exercise - draw a picture in lines, as you imagine it. Now that you have it, try to shade it with the lighting coming from a shittily-different direction from the lines. Not exactly opposite how they fall, but close to it. Obviously, the indirect effect of this is that half your lines now suck - they indicate shadows where light should hit - but they transfer their existence (when painted right) to indicating a shape rather than a shadow. It’s a weird exercise, but I find it helps to understand using linework as just one way to define edges on a finished work. There’s a lot of ways to do it - lines are the most straightforward, and honestly one of the hardest in their own way.

With time, you can start working on moving linework to mirror shading so that they act as a single unit, in league with and complimenting each other. But at first, it will honestly feel a lot like they fight each other for dominance. Whichever you feel is less in charge of the raw 3-d shapes you’re trying to depict - that’s the one you’ll need to work with to bring up to match the other.

the eternal struggle: I just came here to paint some faces and now I have to do the whole rest of shit to the same level of attention to detail when I am fresh out of fucks after the faces

Red Rising characters cont.

WIP (please don’t reblog?)

why am I starting something new when I have a bunch of wips I’m almost done enough with to post, why am I doing this late at night on a weeknight why am I starting painting when I told myself I’d just thumbnail it -- why is this all on one layer?

I watched Digimon Tri expecting grade-A nostalgia fuel and now I just have more questions and six more months of waiting hoping to find out what was up with this cat-stealing punk.