Without going in to details on saving brush presets, here’s a clue.

Saving a new brush is done via the New Brush Preset dialogįwiw, I blocked in most of the top illustration using this exact brush until I got to the detailed work and textural effects.

Open the Brush Settings either from Window-Brush Settings or similar:.

Ensure the opacity and flow are at 100% in the top options bar.

Hit D to make the foreground color black and select Photoshop’s default Hard Round brush.

Create a new document of any size but make it’s aspect ratio square e.g.

If you’ve done any real world painting, you’ll appreciate the usefulness of a good flat brush.

Let’s make a Flat BrushĪll we’re doing today is to build a simple but useful flat brush, which is awesome for blocking in, doing value studies, thumbnails, etc. I should start by mentioning that a lot of this material assumes you have a tablet and Photoshop CC (your mileage may vary otherwise). Do you envy the little rough edges your favorite illustrators achieve and have you wasted tons of time looking at tuts to figure out how to achieve that, just to feel like you’re not quite duplicating the edge texture you love?.

Do you paint? Have you ever thought “Gee, I’d really like a simple but flexible flat brush so I can just block in big areas quickly, and there are about a thousand brushes I have to look through to find this particular one-hrm, and it’s close but not quite exactly what I wanted :(“.

If you’re still doubting the ROI consider:

Are you saying to yourself, “why should I deal with the complexity of Photoshop brushes when Kyle T Webster has already made Gouache, Oils, Manga, etc., and they’re now shipped as defaults?” I felt that way too, but, I’ve seen the light thanks to previewing Chris Legaspi’s NMA course on Photoshop.

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