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 [...]

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 [...]

Certainly from Painter 6 onwards (maybe in earlier versions too), there has been an option to randomly move the paper grain texture with each brush stroke made.
Randomizing the brush stroke grain can yield some interesting and useful textures in combination with a suitable variant and a paper with a medium to high level of [...]

I’ve just been dabbling with the Auto-Painting palette in Painter IX.5. After a little experimenting, I came up with some potentially useful auto-painted cross hatching and other textures in conjunction with the default Nervous Pen variant at 0% brush size (set in the Auto-Painting palette).

For the pencil-like hatching/cross-hatching, I unchecked the Randomness- Rotation check box, [...]

Here’s an interesting variant I’ve developed for Painter 7 upwards, which is effectively a dual purpose brush. At default settings, whatever texture you see in the Paper Preview window of the Papers palette is exactly how the stroke will look when painted. This assumes that both the Directional Grain and Invert Paper buttons have not [...]