Photoshop for Artists - Using Brushes to Emulate Natural Media with Kyle T. Webster

In the fifth episode of this multi-part series on Photoshop basics for artists, follow along with Kyle as he shows you the best brushes to emulate natural media - such as watercolors, pencils, inks, pastels, and oils.
Kyle T. Webster is a Sr. Design Evangelist at Adobe based in North Carolina: www.behance.net/kyletwebster/
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00:00 Start
2:47 Starting work with Megapack Brushes
11:14 How tilt works with brushes
15:18 Tilty Pencil Variant
16:03 Drawing box pencils
18:47 Perfect Pencil
23:17 NuPastel brush
24:09 Wacom tablet settings
31:23 Inking brushes
46:33 Watercolor brushes
49:19 Using the smudge tool to blend
50:57 Live watercolor brushes in Adobe Fresco
53:03 Oil and creamy brushes from Kyle’s Paintbox
55:32 Wrap up

[@nigelblanchard5571]

Ah caught up with this tutorial where you give a snapshot on the Wacom and pen and thanks at least I had grasped it and it has overalll given me more confidence and better results trying to get the brushes to get what you are able to demonstrate.

[@nigelblanchard5571]

Love to see you give broad guidance on how you set up the pen pressure at least using the wacom settings for a wacom or stylus pen and do you use a standard wacom pen or the artist wacom pen which has added rotation albeit not seen you use that thus far. I spent an age using Wacom guide when I first got a Cintiq but realised that with some of these brushes I have to tinker with the pressure setting in the mac settings in the wacom settings panel and vary with soft /medium and firm and the latter seems better for shading with the erodable pencil such as the perfect pencil. I know it is very much personal choice but I thought that there has to be a general rule of a guide somewhere??? For example that tutorial no 4 on cloud painting that you did was difficult to replicate. Sort of pushed me as a coward to plump for a brush someone has produced for clouds. The difficulty was following your earlier video to the T and not being able really master the "opacity reduction" to get the lower sections of the cloud with the dual settings given.

[@lizprint2011]

Great tutorial. Love your brushes and Fresco. Can I ask what document size would you set up when sketching in PS? Especially if you want to print. Would you just set up an A4 at 300pix? Thanks

[@Jezz_Mcfly]

If your machine can handle it - A4 would be fine. You can play about with resolution and use up to A3 - Depends how much 'lag' you get. You could perhaps get away with 150px and up sample it if necessary. It depends on the final print size.