Digital Painting Brushes Free Download
The GIMP Paint Studio, also referred to as GPS, was developed in order to emulate high-quality painting features within GIMP. Compared to a lot of paid digital painting applications, GIMP does lack a bit when it comes to digital painting, mostly due to the lack of good default brushes.
If traditional painting have brushes with different shapes, bristles and sizes, digital painting even has more. And in Photoshop, you will need just one single tool: the Brush tool.
This single tool can take a wide variety of form – ranging from pens and pencils all the way to watercolor and rubber stamps. For digital painting purposes the brush tool will be the only thing you need to add and paint pigment to your canvas. From within Photoshop Brush tool, you can either add custom brushes or make your own. Photoshop includes several built-in brush presets, that are ready to use and enough to get you started. And if you really know how, the brush tool can give you plenty of room to experiment. But if you want something to use for your digital printing right away, we would like to present to you 12 sets of high quality and free Photoshop brushes for digital painting.
Photoshop Brushes Set 1 (CS5, 56 Brushes)Photoshop Brushes Set 2 (Danar Worya Brushpack)Photoshop Brushes Set 3 (CC, Deharme Brushes)Photoshop Brushes Set 4 (Matt Heath)Photoshop Brushes Set 5 (Painting Brushes by Walid Feghali)Photoshop Brushes Set 6 (3D Digital Painting Tutorial with Free Brushes)Photoshop Brushes Set 7Photoshop Brushes Set 8 (Environment Brushes)Photoshop Brushes Set 9 (Aaron Griffin Art)Photoshop Brushes Set 10 (for Painting Rocks & Water)Photoshop Brushes Set 11 (Clouds, Trees and Leaves)Photoshop Brushes Set 12 (Houston Sharp).
Spackled brushes mimic poresA spackled brush is the best thing to choose when you want to blend facial skin tones. Thanks to its shape and pressure-related opacity, it can blend really well and hint at skin pore texture. Smooth the transitions with this brush, while picking the colours with an Eye Dropper tool. Painter-users can use the Blender brush; while it doesn't render a natural skin texture, it creates satisfying effects.Photoshop:. Opacity: 20-100%. Flow: 100%.
Spacing: 6. Other Dynamics: Opacity and Flow, 0%. Scattering: Both Axes, 109%Painter:. Tinting: Blender. Opacity: 15%.
Grain: 0%. Resat: 0%. Bleed: 100%. Jitter: 0%.
Digital Painting Brushes For Photoshop
Blenders: Just Add Water. Opacity: 15%. Grain: 0%. Bleed: 50%. Jitter: 003. AirbrushThe Airbrush is an extremely flexible tool. It's perfect for adding anything from strands of hair to little details such as blushes and moles.
An Airbrush is also a good way to soften the edges of painted objects and those rougher transitions between certain shades, creating an illusion of fleshy softness.Photoshop:. Opacity: 80-100%. Flow: 100%. Other Dynamics: Opacity and Flow, 0%. Shape dynamics: just switched on. The Airbrush tool is extremely flexiblePainter:. Airbrush: Soft Airbrush.
Opacity: 5-15%. Resat: 100%. Bleed: 100%.
Jitter: 0%04. Rotating brushThis brush is perfect for enriching the colour palette of an already painted body part. Thanks to its distinctive shape and angle variations, applying new shades in a natural way is extremely easy: just choose a colour and run with it over the painted skin. If you apply the colours carefully on a low opacity, you won't really require any extra smoothing. This brush also works great as a skin tone blender.Photoshop:. Opacity: 50%. Flow: 100%.
Other Dynamics:. Opacity and Flow, 0%. Scattering: 100%.
Shape dynamics: just switched on. Blend your skin tones with this brushPainter:. Airbrush: Detail Airbrush. Opacity: 2-20%. Resat: 20-70%. Bleed: 100%.
Jitter: 2-305. Spattery brushThe small spackled brush is great to render skin pores with.
Use it on a low opacity setting on a separate layer, so you can play with layer modes later (Soft Light usually gives the most natural effects). To enrich the 'automatic' pore effect, create another layer on top of the existing one and, with an Airbrush, randomly place some small lighter dots on top of the previous ones.Photoshop:. Opacity: 100%.
Flow: 100%. Spacing: 75%. Other Dynamics: Opacity and Flow, 0%. Smoothing: checkedPainter:. Airbrush: Tiny Spattery Airbrush. Spread: 50%.
Flow: 1. Feature: 20. Opacity: 70%06.
Triple dot brushAfter marking the hair basis with an Airbrush, it's good to start adding some texture. This simple Spackled brush is perfect for this job. Start applying the hair strands, gradually moving from bigger and darker to smaller and lighter.In Painter, I highly recommend the Acrylic brushes – aside from a 'strandy' feel, they will automatically create a very interesting texture.Photoshop:. Opacity: 100%. Flow: 100%.
Other Dynamics: Opacity and Flow, 0%. Smoothing: checked.
The Triple Dot brush is useful for adding moles or frecklesPainter:. Acrylics: Wet Soft Acrylic. Opacity: 100%. Resat: 30%. Bleed:100%. Jitter: 007. Slimmed brushThis simple brush, thanks to its pressure adjusted size and opacity, is a natural choice for painting eyelashes.
Use it on a low opacity to mark the shades under the eyelashes (1 in the image below). Then, size it down a bit and increase the opacity to mark the actual eyelashes (2). This brush is also a wonderful tool for hair detailing.Photoshop:. Opacity: 100%. Flow: 100%. Other Dynamics: Opacity and Flow, 0%. Shape dynamics: just switched on.
Smoothing: checked. Use different weights of the Slimmed brush to paint eyesPainter:. PENS: Fine Point.
Opacity: 10-30%. Resat: 100%. Bleed: 0%08. Fairy Dust brushThis spackled brush is a great special effects tool. When painting characters, you can use it to texture mouths: choose a light colour and run with the brush over the highlighted part of the lips. To achieve natural effects, switch the sizes and opacity regularly.
You can also use this brush to enhance a magic spell rendition, by creating a fairy dust effect. And it's perfect for painting stars!Photoshop:. Opacity: 100%. Flow: 100%. Other Dynamics: Opacity and Flow, 0%. Smoothing: checked.
Scattering: Both Axes, 85%. The Fairy Dust brush is also useful for painting realistic lipsPainter:. Airbrush: Variable Splatter. Spread: 90°. Flow: 5. Feature: 9.
Opacity: 60-80%09. Scratch MakerThis custom brush was made from a leaf photograph I took. It's perfect for creating scratched surfaces, but most of all for scars. Choose a neutral brown colour and use the brush over the skin (by clicking, not dragging). Then experiment with the layer modes (I recommend Overlay).
Later, you might want to shrink the brush and add some lighter textures to some parts of the scar to make it look more natural.Photoshop:. Opacity: 30-40%. Flow: 100%. This custom brush was created using a leaf photoPainter: Unavailable 10. Dirt brushThis ragged brush is fabulous for adding dirt effects to the skin and clothing.
Simply pick a darker colour and click around the surface, remembering to switch the sizes and opacity regularly. Afterwards, change the Layer mode to Multiply and add some Gaussian Blur to make your brushstrokes look natural.Photoshop:. Opacity: 10-50%. Flow: 100%.
Other Dynamics: Opacity and Flow, 0%. Smoothing: checked. Scattering: 33%.