daubbrushes DAUB Pigmento - 132 Natural Media raster brushes

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Cheers guys!

 

Wow this is definitely my fav new brush. The "Jekyll and Hyde" brush. Gentle and refined by day, brash and bold by night...

 

Here's a few minutes tinkering. You know a sign that you're having fun, when you have to make yourself stop.  :)

 

This sort of feels like acrylic on canvas.

 

Nice work Paolo!

[paolo.limoncelli]

Another brush today

 

 

 

Pigmento Thick Textured is a really handy tool.

If used at small sizes and low pressure is able to trace precise and expressive lines (as the one shown int this sample).

Moreover being a Pixel Tool preset offers crisp colour and the alpha-eraser trick.

 

Then, used as a pure paint tool, it delivers a subtle impasto effect and a realistic stroke randomness.

 

If you want, you can change blending mode, by default it is set to Normal.

A final tip: use a bit of USM sharpening to make texture bump up when your piece is done.

[paolo.limoncelli]

How to enable the Impasto Effect for Pigmento Fat Bristles

 

Using a bit of USM is always suggested to make paintings crisper.

In this case I designed this tool ramps to work together well with Clarity and USM Live filters in a non destructive way.

This process is available for Affinity Photo only.

 

You add those filters and place them at above all layers, then paint freely.

 

The settings depend on the resolution of your canvas.

For a 4K file you can use:

 

Clarity > 8px

USM > 4px, 2, 0% for Radius, Factor and Threshold 

 

This specific tool has a subtle colour variation that pops out using sharpening.

Each stroke has its independent thickness, so the impasto is very credible.

 

Here a simple stupid sample to show the results of what you will achieve.

 

 

 

 

Hope you'll enjoy.

Happy painting!

[postmadesign]

Hi Paolo, I love these brushes, great work. The only thing that bugs me is that I find it hard to find these brushes in the brushes window in AD, as it does not show names (only on hover). Do you know if this can be changed?

[paolo.limoncelli]

Unfortunately no options there... It is the only way currently.

But more presentation options (and a search input) are nice ideas.

 

I'm sure Serif will improve this visualisation.

[LilleG]

Just bought mine with PayPal.  No problems.  Great brushes, Paulo.  And a great price.

 

Edit:      Oh man!  Just been playing with the brushes. These things are great!  I expected them to be good, based on the freebies you've shared with us, but these are fantastic.  

[paolo.limoncelli]

Thank you LilleG!

Happy to hear that!

[evtonic3]

Another brush today

 

 

 

Pigmento Thick Textured is a really handy tool.

If used at small sizes and low pressure is able to trace precise and expressive lines (as the one shown int this sample).

Moreover being a Pixel Tool preset offers crisp colour and the alpha-eraser trick.

 

Then, used as a pure paint tool, it delivers a subtle impasto effect and a realistic stroke randomness.

 

If you want, you can change blending mode, by default it is set to Normal.

A final tip: use a bit of USM sharpening to make texture bump up when your piece is done.

 

Where can I find this brush?

[paolo.limoncelli]

It is the #68 (or the #5 from the bottom if you prefer).

 

Since we have no search filed in brush presets I suggest you to do the following:

 

- Create an empty Category named "Preferred"

- Go back to Pigmento

- Check all the brushes trying them, since you find what you need

- Move the one you choose to the Preferred category (Right click on the preset stroke)

 

I'd find a nice improvement to Affinity's category management the following features:

 

1) Search field as we have in Swatches and Assets

2) Option for name list only, or possibility to have name/nozzle only

3) Rating/Flag system 

4) Detachable categories (so you can keep open both Blenders and Watercolours for example)

 

What do you think about?

[LilleG]

Excellent suggestions, paolo!  A Search field would be great to have.  And Detachable Categories sounds like a definite improvement.  I'd already created an extra category for Pigmento Brushes that work well with the textures created by the Lighting Filter but large categories, like the Pigmentos (love 'em, love 'em), would benefit from even more compartmentalization. 

[paolo.limoncelli]

I want to update this thread since the Pigmento2 is on the making and will be released as free update!

[SrPx]

WOW. My years with the oils are back.

[paolo.limoncelli]

Some of these new tools will deliver subtle impasto effect too, this time without using the USM trick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just paint... 

[SrPx]

Gonna buy. TODAY. No more delays. 

Geez.... the memories... Looking at that I almost smell the linseed oil over the wooden pallete....

(....aaaaand...am out of likes again (10:12 AM in the morning, that's a record... ! ) .... I guess am too compulsive hitting the like button, lol..... )

[SrPx]

Purchased !

My first Gumroad purchase, lol, there's always a first time for all...

And...THANK YOU, Paolo, as, at this price, I consider it a gift.... (or...er.... a steal....84 brushes, for a total of 7  euros, once included VAT... It'd be even for just one of the above seen quality (that pic totally broke my resistance/laziness to purchase stuff or do the paypal thing...)... Tho I know is the rules of market. Yet so, one has to recon where there's an item of extreme value... (Affinity, these brushes....er...Blender....   (edit: thought I'd clarify, as has happened before that ppl would believe with this joke that Blender 3D costs sth.... is FREE ))

BTW, the whole purchase thingy went very smooth here, no probs, used PAYPAL.

Will try the brushes later, have some ppl at the flat now, can't focus well, lol....

[paolo.limoncelli]

Thank you!

After the update to version 2 price will be increased so I guess you did the right choice... 

[Betazilla]

Hi Paolo, are there any limitations in terms of how the Pigmento brushes work in Affinity Designer compared to in Affinity Photo? (I've I've only got Affinity Designer)

[Betazilla]

Paolo replied to my question via email - here's the full quote. 

Hi!

Pigmento is a set designed to work in both AP and AD.

The differences in using these in AD or AP are the following:

 

1) Automatic Tool Selection

 

In Affinity Photo the brush preset will automatically pick up the needed tool to obtain the wanted behaviour.

This tool is shown at the end of the sample stroke, by its icons.

 

In Affinity Designer this does not happen, because this feature is not yet supported, so you're free to select the tool yourself (any painting tool available) using that icon as a "hint".

 

2) DAUB® Pigmento - Spatula

 

In Affinity Photo tools from this set rely on the Paint Mixer Brush, and allow you to mix colours

 

In Affinity Designer this does not happen, because the feature is not yet supported, but you can always use them without the mixing feature.

 

The look you're seeing in my speed painting is perfectly achievable in both AP and AD.

Let me know if you need more info!

 

Cheers!

Paolo

[Betazilla]

That's great, Paolo - thanks a lot for the explanation! 

[paolo.limoncelli]

I missed your question here!

Thank you!

 

[Betazilla]

No problem.

[RRCreations]

Hey Paolo, I would love to buy the Pigmento brush pack for Affinity, but unfortunately I don't have/use a creditcard. Would it be possible for you to put back the PayPal option at the checkout on Gumroad? Thanks in advance! Cheers, Ruben from the Netherlands.

[PaulEC]

I don't know for sure, but I would think that available payment options would be down to Gumroad, rather than individual sellers like Paolo. (I do find it a bit odd that Gumroad doesn't accept PayPal!)

[paolo.limoncelli]

Ok folks...

This set is NOT abandonware... 😜

A massive update is in the making and very close to the release.

Pigmento Mk4 is a deep redesign of almost ALL brushes in this set

The work has been mainly on Colour Jitters for a more controllable and refined experience for 2.x users.

Also I focused on a "materic" feeling for strokes.

Old nozzles have been tweaked a bit, and finally these are able to do what they were designed for back in 2016. 

I'm very happy with the result, I tried to push the engine here whilst keeping all as responsive as possible.

Each preset can be used as Blender and Paintbrush, in particular Blockers.

I decided to rename Subsets and normalise all names, also some redundant brushes will be removed.

These two examples are made with four brushes in total, picked from Expressive and Acryls subsets.

Last but not least the old Pigmento will be always available as a legacy for Affinity 1.x users, so if you're happy with old stuff you can still download them.

Stay tuned!

😎

 

 

[SrPx]

On 10/23/2024 at 7:25 PM, paolo.limoncelli said:

A massive update is in the making and very close to the release.

HUGE KUDOS !!

Traditional oils & acrylics lover here, always loving pigmento brushes' updates.

As someone who got your Super Bundle (still to try the new pencils in CSP, been busy...) and so many excellent brushes that you have made for so long time.