Brushes for Pastel Drawing

Due Mar 15, 2019 by 11:59pm
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Brushes

You don't need to be a fine artist to create beautiful artwork with brushes in Photoshop. As a matter of fact, Photoshop brushes can help the novice painter create stunning artwork. It also opens new possibilities for the more experienced.

Step through this tutorial (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. to learn more about working with brushes. Use the files located here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Brushes for Pastel Drawing

Photoshop ships with lots of great brushes, but it’s way more fun and interesting to create and customize your own. We’ll investigate custom brushes, brush presets and tool presets.

This is a really great Brushes 101 tutorial video at Adobe’s Web Site. Let’s take a look (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. If you wish, you can open a blank Photoshop document and try the techniques as we watch the video in class.

We’re going to take a look at the Captured, Bristle, Erodible and Airbrush tips in this unit.

Photoshop brushes seem to be painting continuous strokes of colour. The default behaviour is more of a stamping action. When you draw with a brush, it’s really smearing the ink into a line. You can exagerate this with the “Spacing” setting. To get a continuous line, you set the spacing to zero.