Puntilism Brush ??

[Kingwhistle]

Is it possible to create a brush which paints dots? size and frequency +/- depending on pen pressure??

[v_kyr]

Hmm, I believe @StuartRc can possibly best answer this. - Take a look after his immense brush sortiment here in the forum under the forums resources section. For dots you can try out this one ...

• Texture Brush Packs [Dots]

[StuartRc]

Hi,

I can
as @v_kyr has indicated there are a couple of brush sets you could try to get this effect. In addition to the dot texture brush already mentioned it may be better to download and try a couple of the Project Brush Sets. The texture brush set is quite old now! So have a play around with these 2 sets (I have updated these to version 2 and work much better with the later brush engine!)

A. Project Brush Set 03 Big-T
B. Project Brush 04 Ammonite 

Big-T set was build specifically to create the effect you are requesting.. There is a link to a test drawing here

Hope helps!

[StuartRc]

You can just use the size of the brush to vary the effect. Or adjust the X Y jitter to edit the scatter

[Kingwhistle]

Thank you all SO much. I will play around with these and see what I can do.

[Kingwhistle]

OMG I am in love with ProjectBrush 03-Big-T V2  Wow!  Finally!   This is a milestone moment for me of finding ways to humanize my results in AP 

Thanks again!

[StuartRc]

15 hours ago, Kingwhistle said:

OMG I am in love with ProjectBrush 03-Big-T V2  Wow!  Finally!   This is a milestone moment for me of finding ways to humanize my results in AP 

Thanks again!

No Problem!...I noticed that this set does not have any sketching | drawing brushes to supplement the stippling...Whoops!.... But the Pencil Sketch brushes would help a lot.
Most of them are small and textured so should not interfere with the stippling too much...

[Kingwhistle]

Thank you.

I very often am augmenting and refining my images in AP and AD, they either start as analog drawings or photographs. I haven't yet created any art "in the box". I would like to be able to do a better job of:
-smoothing out and repairing jagged digitization (sometimes I work with images which are already digitized). bad captures are the worst.
-recreating pencil-paper smudge and smears.
-layers of pencil strokes (5 or 6 strokes which add up to a line, or 10 -15 strokes with the side of the tip which add up to shading)
-stipple effect, and also stipple effect with G. Blur over top

I think these brushes will help! Thank you.

[Kingwhistle]

a little off topic;

Would you recommend any YouTube tutorial specifically on brush use in AP ?

Or better yet, what is your take on:

-should I create a category for my fave brushes? 
-shortcuts for switching between brushes?
-can fave brushes be preloaded with different color/size settings so I can switch between them quickly?

 

[StuartRc]

I have almost finished a new project (Project Brush Set 28) set for this!...I will put it into resources asap!
Added some new stipple brushes with a combination of Solids (inking) | Pencil brushes | and Texture brushes taken from Inking set and concept art set!

Should be a bit improvement (won't need to jump around sets!)

[StuartRc]

4 minutes ago, Kingwhistle said:

a little off topic;

Would you recommend any YouTube tutorial specifically on brush use in AP ?

Or better yet, what is your take on:

-should I create a category for my fave brushes? 
-shortcuts for switching between brushes?
-can fave brushes be preloaded with different color/size settings so I can switch between them quickly?

 

Argh! There are so many now!.. I have been watching a lot of concept art tutorials recently, which are equally as useful. If you have an artstation account all learning videos are now free. I came across this recently on all the brushes you will ever need!  but it is PSD

But also responded to a similar Question here at the bottom of the thread
Frankentoon TV has a lot of demonstration videos
envato Tuts has a general one here and
Olivio Sarikas + the rest of the channel

Should you create a favourite...I would say yes absolutely.. It's why I created the Project Brush Sets...It is difficult to trawl around huge brush sets. better to be more selective and have dedicated sets for projects even though sometimes they get duplicated (See affinity Spotlight article). It is easy just to create a category and copy brushes to the location. Use import and export with some renaming if they are compete sets you wish to duplicate.

I may be wrong but I don't think there are any shortcuts for switching brushes...
Preloaded..mmm well not really but you can duplicate brushes and edit the nozzles | Textures and Dynamics to create different brushes/effects or adjust spacing size etc to get a different result.
With colours it is sort of yes and no...Not for Intensity Brushes but Yes for image brushes

Hope this helps!
 

[Kingwhistle]

Yes, very helpful! 

Thanks for all the help.

Good Luck in 2022!

[StuartRc]

Thanks!

Just uploaded the new brush set...Project Brush 28 Ink Stipple to resources

[Kingwhistle]

Brilliant!  and btw, I love your art! the mix of nature, fantasy and grungy elements, all very cool.

 

[StuartRc]

28 minutes ago, Kingwhistle said:

Brilliant!  and btw, I love your art! the mix of nature, fantasy and grungy elements, all very cool.

 

Thanks! That is the fun bit!