Make YOUR OWN Damn Brushes. Tutorial.

[@Hurricane047]

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day Teach a man how to make his own brushes and he'll paint fishes everyday

[@davidespinosa8242]

I’m not painting any fishes...lol.

[@barbi2503]

LMALAOAOA

[@manassikdar1]

Oof

[@manassikdar1]

Only dead fish swim along the stream

[@doooggy609]

Smart men paint butts and eat fish everyday

[@wakkaseta8351]

I make my own brushes. They just happen to resemble exact replicas of other people's brushes.

[@EnderElohim]

well there been people on different part of the word that invent same stuff too before :D

[@emil-9432]

Yeah, just download any brush and rename it “my own brush, that I made myself, without any external inspiration, after meditating on the concept for a year inside a dark cave”

[@danielawesome36]

@@emil-9432 Well, I named the one that I made "my own brush, that I happen to make after seeing a similar-looking brush on multiple people's videos, that I definitely didn't pause the video to copy the brush head."

[@IvikNier]

Yeah. Yeah. I hear ya. I hear ya... but uhhh... give some brushes will you?

[@soph663]

hahahhahahaha

[@ViktorsTech]

Yeah give us the brushes

[@Hiitsme717]

LMFAO love this

[@ilijacavic9049]

Xd

[@xmoreno3366]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tweed.k]

Someone should paint this character holding a pie and a baby and share it to the internet with no context

[@whatisthis9951]

gianfar why don't you do that?

[@tweed.k]

You are such a form of inspiration....

[@whatisthis9951]

gianfar its a serious question lol.

[@yurista_art]

Ooo i shall try a thing ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@Coffee_Caper]

I think this is the most important thing I've heard all week.

[@corbbing]

One thing I know about artistic style: Different strokes for different folks.

[@mememem]

But the bell pepper brush is all you really need

[@James-pb8xu]

@@rapidfire4202 nah i use the mouse with a brush in his mouth.

[@lostspirits5787]

I‘ll make a painting only using the bell pepper brush now.

[@BJSepuku]

GIMP = Green Is My Pepper

[@yes7855]

Wuh

[@josephpacinelli1378]

@BORODANTE - I wanted to pop in and say thank you. I just watched 4 or 5 of your videos and I've picked up tons of helpful information. I've been putting in crazy hours working on my 2D when the family goes to sleep and I've been sort of in a rut for the last month or so., which has been discouraging. Your channel just got me going and this video on creating brushes just opened my eyes to a new level and has pushed me forward. Again, Thank you!

[@SuperAlphaKirby]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was so tired of asking artists for brushes. I rlly wanted to make my own but no one ever taught the theory behindnit. But now i found this. Im finally achieving the effect i have wanted for years. U also use my dream art style! Subbed.

[@gwenhwyfarsdottir]

Thank you so much for explaining about the flow and opacity stuff, you have changed my life. I think there is a similar setting called "color jitter" on Medibang - changing that setting made the brush look a lot more organic.

[@LillenArt2]

More people need to hear this. I didn't create every single one of my brushes but I did spend months tweaking them and adapting them to fit my art.

[@benjaminaustnesnarum3900]

I remember Marc Brunet posting a video on youtube about how he made his square brush. I followed it, and I've used it for basically everything since. Great video, Borodante! Though, changing brushes can be a good way to keep the work fresh; Proko has a great video about it. If you think about traditional painting, you have various brushes for different uses. Think flat, round, squared, soft, angled, what type of hairs, and so on. The texture of the canvas remains the same, yet the brushes provide visually different strokes and edges. For me, it looks more organic.

[@TheWipal]

something i head was, never throw out a brush, even as it gets old and changes shape, that just means you have a new brush with it's own new unique features :D

[@SkyColossus]

Helped me understand how brushes work in digital painting. Also made me realise how digital painting is like looking through a lens. Image is blurry at start but as you progress the details begin to standout. Thanks for the great tutorial.

[@SketchyTigers]

Usually my process of creating brushes is if I like a certain brush set an artist uses and theyre up for download, i download them. But then I change around most of the textures used and the brush setting to fit me more. Quite often I edit the alpha too to make it for eg, symmetrical, or more angular depending on what I want to use the brushes for. Most of the time I Frankenstein my brushes with other peoples brushes

[@sagred]

12 seconds in and I'm already assured by refuted 19th century science that this man is going to provide me with the information I need, but he will also present to me a dillemma in which I must choose whether to follow the path of good or follow him down the path of wickedness. We'll see how this plays out, but an extremely promising intro.

[@elshaddai-houseofbiblelearning]

You are an absolute expert. And I love the way you explain as well. I am completely new to this world, and have loads and loads to learn and understand. Great job brother. Josh

[@HTOlsen]

Dude, your guides are the best. I did pixelart on the Amiga back in the 90s and just started looking at painting in Photoshop. Got myself a Wacom tablet, been looking at tons of guides, and yup, you guessed it, harvesting all kinds of brushes. I'll just stay here on your channel and make my own damn brushes from now on. Thank you!

[@SergePupko]

I just tried this method of painting after years of sketch>line art>color, I decided to break free of the details early on and just make blobs, then add colors and rough details, the finer details, got a very nice finish much quicker and found it easier to make sense of the subject going in reverse order... Gonna go make me a custom brush tomorrow and start branding my art with my own signature brush. :)

[@at5203]

Shit, this solved my life. I can believe how good it looks after those settings. Thanks for this video dude, you are great.

[@starduck2]

Aside from the comment reading videos, this was the first one that I stood from start to finish, and even went back a few times. Your channel grows in my mind everyday :)

[@jamesrocks300mf]

yeah that's probably the best advice i could have gotten. switching from traditional painting to digital tomorrow and was looking for brushes. guess i only need one. thanks man. your artwork is pretty awesome too.

[@supernukum5159]

Boro's videos are like Marvel movies, there's always a treat of extra footage after the credits.

[@OTAKUxGAMER0001]

Love ur avatar :3

[@PedroGBSilva]

I couldn't stop myself from noticing your hands. I just like how long and sharp your fingers look

[@Cubannerd]

This is exactly what I was looking for. I've been getting into digital painting lately and I've been playing with the brush settings, I downloaded a bunch of brushes but its just not working so I decided to look for a video that sort of explains how they work. I just stumble upon your channel and I really dig your style. Thank you for the tips.

[@incyder]

Thanks, I like your textures and would like to see more how you did that.

[@porgeet]

The explanation of the brush size and pressure, beautiful! Thanks

[@ssspunch8057]

I love this video, it honestly gave me the courage to make my own brushes and I actually love the outcome! Drawing on my Ipad feels a lot more natural now. Thank you so much 🌱

[@FreeSpokenOne]

When I saw this title I had to look at what this was about. When I heard you say people ask for your brushes I was taken aback. That’s rude and moochie, you don’t owe them. Give me that image you made, I want it! That’s not how this works people. You pay people for their time and value their work. That said, thanks for speaking to this and broaching the complex nature of brush creation. It is intimidating to open the configuration panel and see all the settings and it takes time to figure out what they all do. The only way is by testing, fiddling around and seeing, but it helps when someone who already knows about this shares information! The point you make about making your own marks into a brush is well taken. Most brushes I’ve purchased need tweaking to get to a place that works. A brush designed by the artist is right from the start. I’ve been given several brushes generously from Painter masters and adjacent community over the years and do treasure them, purchased some which served a purpose, but what you say is all true. You are a benevolent teacher Boro, a wealth of talent, and I always enjoy hearing your thoughts on art and digital creation.

[@RaYu5150]

You... are.... AWESOME, the best tutorial maker i have ever found ! I saw your tutorial with the skin... oh you are so good ! Thank you a lot.

[@adrianpedraza8612]

I wanted you to make this tutorial because damn it is an underrated skill to create brushes.

[@sonseraedesigns]

I’ve been using Photoshop since 1993 and always made my own brushes. It really depended on what I was painting. If I was painting an elephant that needed wrinkle textures, I would make a number of brushes for that. Now I have thousands of brushes but the ones I use most are the grunge brushes I have created.

[@ElfInTheFlowers]

It is 2019 so I am not sure how much has or hasn’t changed with the iPad. However, ironically enough I was able to use all these principles to recreate one of my favorite custom brushes from Photoshop in Procreate and use this video as a tutorial for practicing on the iPad! Thank you for sharing so much knowledge, it does actually help a lot!

[@wiczus6102]

3:35 Recently I've seen a Tyler Edlin video, and he said the exact opposite. I think multiple brushes are ok if you actually use a lot of different styles, if everything stands out, nothing stands out.

[@nyx4698]

Agreed, look at Jaime Jones his work is incredible

[@stephcohen]

You get the like just for the title. I love it! This was very easy to follow and I took a lot away from this video. Thank you.

[@scrumpitboy9125]

Usually when I “asks for a brush” I ask for the shape of it looks cool or textured if looks cool, and then make my own brush with it because I like to customize my stuff … now give me your life force

[@stefanomanini2270]

So good to see one of Boro’s serious informative videos again instead of hardware testing or overpaint! Keep up man, I learned a lot from you! :)

[@shellynachandra]

This is seriously the most helpful video i've ever watched and i've been watching a lot of tutorial and how to videos..... Thanks a bunch!! and I'm also new at digital drawing so having to watch it from you at an early stage, really helped a lot.

[@AlbertFisk]

I just wanted to say thank you for this video. I've just started with digital art and this helped me out a lot. Got a brush that feels pretty close to Acrylic paints with this tutorial. Instead of trying to use 20+ brushes, I now use 1 brush for painting and experimenting a lot to make my own brushes! Thanks again!

[@Le_Rosa]

That is just AWESOME mate!!! Thanks for your time and effort.

[@tranglomango]

The title is gold. People still believe it's the brushes that'll make the piece good

[@emil-9432]

Maybe not good, but certainly more gooder...

[@darrellpidgeon6440]

It seems logical to create custom brushes. We should all know our own style, so a brush design seems a natural result for the requirements.

[@hedcas]

love that drawing, very full metal

[@brb8407]

Holy shit this is the only brush tutorial I've ever learned anything from. I insta-subbed, thank you so much for the tough love lol. _Also I love your accent and facial structure_

[@candlebriar1955]

Early this morning I read the title as “Make your own damn business”. I thought it was a very aggressive way to talk about being a freelance artist.

[@nicolemartinez6440]

That’s one way of doing it. XD

[@lisamaier9984]

We think YOUR BRUSH'S will make use as good as you lmbo. Your cool dude! What is so helpful is knowing and understanding the different settings! Thank you.

[@TofuRabbit]

I agree with you when you say that learning how to make brushes that complement your art style is extremely important and a vital asset to have in your skillset, but also disagree with using only one brush/one size to some extent. Even when painting traditionally on a real canvas with oil paints, acrylics, etc for example, artists utilize differently sized brushes for different purposes, or grip their brush in different ways and apply different amounts of pressure to achieve different looking strokes, and that alone is an integral part of their style. Every artist paints differently, and what works for you might be totally disregarded by someone else because - especially in art - there aren't universal rules everyone _always_ follows 100% of the time; it's what makes every artist unique and interesting.

[@luckydice5778]

Just noticed your brushes have names from Akira and Ghost in the Shell. That's just delightful. Great tutorial , thnx it really helped

[@angelfernandezmesa95]

So... I knew how to create brushes... now I know how to create good brushes. Thank you, you showed me more with this video than anyone

[@alexmehler6765]

says you only need one brush, has 1 million brushes saved

[@tymondabrowski9922]

You need only one brush for one painting... for 1 million paintings you need 1 milion brushes then. Borodante just planned his future needs correctly.

[@user-lu4fn9pe4y]

that is so true >< i work with one or tow but downloaded the Kyle brushes from ps and still got no use of them

[@alexmehler6765]

i think brushes shine best in background paintings .. using different "stamps" for different things in nature ... real painters (oil ) have used shortcuts for this for centuries .. they didnt paint in all the leafs individually .. also a completely square brush is good for scribbling in architecture or otehr mehanical/edged stuff

[@user-lu4fn9pe4y]

that is so true >< i work with one or tow but downloaded the Kyle brushes from ps and still got no use of them

[@Therealmrmeow]

Been waiting all day to finish work so I could watch this. Boro is Makin Monday Magic!

[@amber9040]

I... Expected misinformation...

[@bamensanders8407]

Exactly what I thought. Especially since he already made a video on how to makes ps brushes. Not that I'm disappointed.

[@lupotiamo4887]

Borodante your English is improving a lot :D I was watching your older videos then and now. Also, I adore your art and channel.

[@iropagis770]

Can't describe how much this video helped me.

[@PlanetKhaos]

This is cool, I can't wait to try it out! Might attempt to make one that's good for a painterly style. (I just discovered this channel yesterday, really happy that I did.)

[@NiklasFreidwall]

Thank you. Now I only needed to find all the windows and photoshop problems making my pressure not working... houres later I made it work.... thanks again.

[@mcbaltz]

Well... Marco Bucci uses a lot of brushes in the same painting. LOL Nice video, Boro. Thank you!

[@DreamingBlindly]

"not every single part of a painting needs pixel sized details" My brain: OK I'm just gonna ignore that and make pixels go burr

[@smokeriie]

Thanks for all the videoes. They really improved my skills, and my way at looking at painting. I'll be looking forwards to the upcomming ones.

[@jonygarconi8878]

9:56 Ending Brush form, starting the brush settings!

[@potis]

April Fools !!! Oh wait, its actually a good video.. thank you :D

[@colefuqua9383]

Super helpful video! I was always downloading and trying out other brushed but could never find any that worked, but was able to make a good one pretty quickly. Thanks!

[@lycan0000]

Nice one, I start to have a little level in digital painting mainly thanks to you and I was at a point I wanted to have this identity presonnal brushes create even if until there I used yours (and still does in some case) and this video gets out at the exact rght moment. Thanks pal ! Keep it up, your content is great and no one is as bald as you !

[@faunoram]

Wow ! This is an amazing tutorial ! Thank you, im subscribing right now !!!

[@harrysanders818]

If you are a Substance Painter or Substance Designer user you could also create those grunge or dirt seamless textures yourself procedurally within one of those softwares. This way you can create an infinite amount of custom textures for your brushes without having to download pictures from the net, which will make it even more customized and part of your own creative process :) Thanks for this video, which brought me to that idea. Did not think of using custom textures for brushes before. A great advice.

[@Pilps]

the poop thing about this is the brush i want exactly is the one in this video. and i cant for the life of me figure to how to replicate it

[@AleksNeve]

Same ;__;

[@tylerstronk]

This made everything feel so natural in digital painting thank you :DD

[@Sichel22]

awesome video boro ! kinda helped me to make my brush feel not as digital as before :) ! keep it up !

[@junaliceart]

thank you so much for all this information! also love the akira/gits references on your brushes hehe

[@YuriLifeLove]

It's interesting how the brush settings are basically the opposite of drawings (at least for how I would like my settings personally)... When drawings I really don't want the opacity and flow changes, but do really want the size changes, especially for the lineworks...

[@camglenn5267]

You are freaking awesome! Thanks for sharing some knowledge!

[@succubuspublishing620]

If anyone was getting frustrated like me about why my Transfer settings wouldn't stick, make sure the icon next to opacity with the pen and the circle is not clicked.

[@Yaroslava-i4g]

I think it's still might be useful, to share a brush-sets. For example, for looking up some of brush preferences. Like "hmmm... I wonder how much of a flow used here?" or something like that. )

[@skos-xn7pd]

Ok now you're even a better guy, then you're before. Thanks

[@AaronAfshar]

BORO IS THE KING

[@ooXChrissieXoo]

I have been trying to make my own brush, and I don't think anyone else explained flow. It's always and you adjust your opacity and flow here. lol But ouuuuuu that is exactly what I need, thanks! Yeah and also, I have always thought that I must be stupid because most of the brush customization options are off, but phew.

[@lobisrata]

Talking about brushes and stuff, Krita 4.0 came out! I think you'll like the new version, it got a lot of brushes and optimizations. I loved your previous Krita and Artrage videos and I'd love to see a new one about this version :0

[@Samoasoa]

Wow, very clear and concise explanations. I love it. Do you mind showing us how to create a Chinese ink brush for traditional painting effects? Thanks

[@eg-draw]

I have dozens of brushes and yet using only 3px, 7px and huge px versions of custom rectangular one made by myself long time ago

[@spoonietimelordy]

I don't agree about the 1 brush thing. The importance s not to only use 1 brush but to be consistent in the painting, you can 3 difference brushes but together not "one for this, one this other thing etc...) I don't know if it make sense. But yeah you can use a lot of brushes, it add a lot of texture to do that btw, just they have to work together in the wole painting.

[@Edanihis]

For the texture I prefer to use a different method, please tell me what you think. This work on Clip Studio Paint, because you can choose an indefinite number of brush tip. I create with a selection a basic shape (usually a rectangle because I found it works better with the brush engine of CSP). With this selection everything I will do will have this basic shape as a reference. After this I create some little shapes spreading them a LOT, like there is a LOT of empty space. Imagine 6-7 little points of 5px in a rectangle of 200x200px. Now I create a new layer and I do the same. I repeat the proces until I found the right density of little shapes, like the whole selection is black. After this I register all the layers I've created and I put them as brush tips. After this I go to stroke, first of all I put repeat method "random" (so those little point will be putted at random in the stroke). Now is the part of fine tuning and is really personal on what you want to do. You go to stroke and click gap>fixed. After this you can use the pressure/tilt/velocity settings to change the gaps between the brush tips. If the gap is small those little points will create a solid color, if the gap is a lot you will have some random little noise that you can use to create a texture. For an example I use the pressure settings to make a brush in which the more pressure I put the more solid color I have, the lesser the pressure more texture I will have.

[@bellaa.hansen4755]

This was great - thank you! I just made my first, very own brush!

[@kivuntuntija]

Mean while, Marco Bucci said its more expressive to use a variaty brushes in a painting

[@mecrac]

your videos are life changing

[@cameronechols1810]

Wooah... this guy is a genius.

[@linnealager6146]

I’m a newbie and I used so many different brushes in my latest painting. Should try sticking to one next time. Turned out pretty nice anyways.

[@Huetete]

I'd like to actual see you draw a baby and a pie to both sides of the knight

[@tori54595]

the title spoke to me

[@GoodSoupM]

i already know how to make my own but I like the title so i click

[@RahfeN]

This is an AWESOME video and I have to share with my friends!

[@coleorloff]

Hey dude! Just getting into digital drawing/painting. And I'm wondering if it's possible to set-up a custom shortcut to jump to the brush preset you want. For example, "SHFT + 1" would jump to my pencil-style brush and "SHFT + 2" would jump to a oil pastel-style brush, etc. Otherwise it seems I have to select the brush tool and then manually find the right brush and click it each time I want to switch brushes. Thanks!

[@midwinterhunt]

me, desperately trying to figure out how to make a specific brush i need, finding nothing and on the verge of giving up: why is the only helpful person using a different program than me?? :')

[@TheMetalVagabond]

Dude you area a life saver, thanks!

[@oz_the_archivist]

Any advice for making brushes for organic and complex things, like the branches of pine trees or mountains?

[@josuefox]

Do you think it's possible to mimic the oil painting brushes ( filbert, flat, round, large brush, fan, knife ...) ? Because I wanted to learn real oil paintings and I followed some lessons, but for some reasons I cannot do it in real so I bought graphic tablet. But I am kinda disappointed because I thought the softwares like Rebelle4 or Artrage were doing that well. Yes they do a great job about the oil painting effect but their brushes are not like I thought. I expected for example, if I choose "filbert" I could use the tip (or toe) of the brislet with the tip of the pen, and the belly bristle with the tilt pen.. but no

[@fluent_styles6720]

By the way you're a great artist. Amazing tutorial

[@Viii_Glasseye]

Heeeey I don't know why but this reminded me of a fast and furious reference from "make your own got damn popcorn". LOL Thanks for the information as well very helpful.

[@amosandrade6828]

You, Sir, have earned one insignificant subscribe! Thanks for the good content!!

[@Tajiri1986]

Hey Dante, How can i paint details without making my brush smaller? When i decrease the size of the brush it becomes obvious that something else was implemented in the picture other that one brush.

[@Tajiri1986]

Alrighty, will be waiting!

[@funnydewd]

Affinity photo for the iPad uses both flow and opacity. Maybe irs worth a look.

[@SugarTouch]

It seems like you're asking about brush texture used as brush mask (procreate engine is the best example). Your texture of brush should stay the same scale while diameter of brush (so to say) becomes smaller. It makes your general strokes look made by the same tool but with its thin tail. It works in Procreate and it works as well in Painter 'cause in Painter texture is a property of canvas and is shared across all your brushes and strokes. I guess there are corresponding settings in most of professional drawing apps.

[@leonardopasquetto6538]

tfw after an almost full day of April Fools videos you're expecting another one, but you find a pretty interesting and useful one instead. Thanks Boro! :D

[@bampidraws]

great video thx, I also like the look of your tablet stand, what make/model is it please.

[@UNEMPLOYEDSENSEI]

Hi Boro, Thank you very much for training amateurs like me. My question is, there's an artist called Shal.E, with very Asian inspired artwork made in photoshop, and I'm wondering if the free app krita is incapable of creating paintings that look similar? Do you think that krita basic brushes are awful? I just am not getting the awesome rendering that I see photoshop users are getting with one paint brush.