BrushTalk

Continuing from part 1, I firstly want to introduce the third brush variant, again created in Painter IX. This variant also uses the luminosity of the current selected pattern to control the angle in the brush stroke, but this time the brush is a captured dab. While experimenting with the settings, I discovered an interesting […]

Many years ago, a student in an engraving class mentioned to the tutor that they were short on ideas for their next engraving piece. The tutor replied with a couple of suggestions; the first was to fill a sheet of paper with random scribbles and then look for interesting shapes created within the resulting […]

A major problem with sharing Painter brushes with other users is that the associated xml files are not backward compatible with earlier versions. Developments in the brush engine mean that in some cases, an equivalent variant cannot be recreated in an earlier Painter version (RealBristle brush variants for example). In many cases however, it is […]