mannyhenri Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Did any of you found the right recipe to simulate sketching pencils 2B and up? I'm 100% familiar with the brush options yet to get it right, and I like to sketch my scenes before going full blown vector. Any tips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Sure! It's pretty easy: 1) Create a new Intensity brush form Brushes Studio palette 2) Use a PNG picture as starting nozzle (use this one for example) 3) Form Brush editing palette use these settings 4) In Dynamics these... And you're done! I do prefer Pixel Tool because turns anti-alias off and delivers gritty results, but it is pretty usable even with brush tool. Flow variation helps to simulate pencil hardness. MEB, SrPx, Bibi McMurray and 9 others 12 Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Sure! It's pretty easy: 1) Create a new Intensity brush form Brushes Studio palette 2) Use a PNG picture as starting nozzle (use this one for example) 3) Form Brush editing palette use these settings 4) In Dynamics these... And you're done! I do prefer Pixel Tool because turns anti-alias off and delivers gritty results, but it is pretty usable even with brush tool. Flow variation helps to simulate pencil hardness. Something I'm not getting here...I can make the new brush using that png but I can't get palettes looking like yours to make the adjustments you make..if I go into pixel persona, my brush is nowhere to be found... Is there another step in there? Many thanks..the brush you made is the bee's knees and just what I'm needing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Something I'm not getting here...I can make the new brush using that png but I can't get palettes looking like yours to make the adjustments you make..if I go into pixel persona, my brush is nowhere to be found... Is there another step in there? Many thanks..the brush you made is the bee's knees and just what I'm needing! Correct me if I'm wrong..you have to BE in Pixel persona when doing this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniemcbride Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Correct me if I'm wrong..you have to BE in Pixel persona when doing this? You are correct. for this type of effect you need to be in pencil mode. importing a ping in the draw mode will have a different effect. Quote LEARN AFFINITY DESIGNER TODAY. Follow me on twitter:@mixmediasalad or WATCH my FREE Youtube Channel Content Also check out my Affinity Designer Essential course on Lynda.com or Affinity Designer UX tools course and get a 30-day FREE!! trial to Lynda.com entire LIbrary by clicking this link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 ok..thank you ronnie...hopefully there'll be some instructions forthcoming on this and other Affinity features and tools... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierrick Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Great tut! Thanks for sharing. Edit: Paolo, interesting posts on your website; as http://www.paololimoncelli.com/bristles-for-affinity-designer/ Keep posting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- S - Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 When creating your own brush nozzles, what's the optimal resolution to save them in? I noticed that the nozzle in post No.2 is 256 X 256. However, as document resolutions get larger and larger and therefore the size of brushes used get larger and larger, would making a nozzle 1000 X 1000 be more future proof? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 When creating your own brush nozzles, what's the optimal resolution to save them in? I noticed that the nozzle in post No.2 is 256 X 256. However, as document resolutions get larger and larger and therefore the size of brushes used get larger and larger, would making a nozzle 1000 X 1000 be more future proof? Sure... Even if I can say that bigger nozzle/tip is not always better. Talking about pure painting or sketching tools (I mean tools that want to reproduce natural media experience) even working on large canvases you never reach those sizes. A 1024x1024px nozzle for a pencil means that you can use a 1024px wide brush... But... Would you? Consider that with such a tool you can literally fill a 4k file with three strokes. And a 4k file (8Mpx of resolution more or less) is dense enough to produce a good quality A3 print. Different approach if you want to create a Texture brush, in that case the larger the better since you want to block large areas quickly. But also, in my opinion with massive large brushes the painterly effect "faints" somehow, so you have to tune up your upper limit. Don't forget that sometimes low res nozzles are useful to reach some effects as a very soft pigment tool. So a 128x128px tool upscaled to a 1200px width brush can deliver a really nice subtle texture. Bibi McMurray 1 Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- S - Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Thank you for the reply. When I posted that I had just installed Affinity Photo and was about to move my Photoshop brushes over. In the end I decided to recreate all my brush nozzles from scratch and made them all 4096 x 4096. Although I won't ever use a drawing brush that size, at least I'll never need to recreate then again, and I can always downsize them if required. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisticperspective Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 How do I save my brush in affinity designer? I already created it using Paolo's tutorial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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