You Don't Need Textures. You Need Proper Settings.

[@KritaOrgPainting]

Two other features available in Krita that might be interesting for you: "Greater" blending mode (which allows you to make nicer strokes if you painted them with lower Opacity) and "Build Up" instead of usual Wash, which basically allows the color to build up even in Opacity-controlled strokes. The Greater blending mode is awesome for watercolor brushes. Build Up is not really used much, I think... Also have you seen all the RGBA additions now? Most are in Krita 4.4.3-beta; but right now there is even a proof-of-concept of the Color Smudge brush engine with RGBA, with a separate height map. // tiar, Krita's developer

[@yuli3873]

Hi there! Could you add a hotkey to erase while holding the key? Like in Affinity Photo (Pixel Tool)

[@BoroCG]

Very interesting, thanks for the info! Will check out the Greater mode

[@KritaOrgPainting]

​@@BoroCG Little clarification: "Greater" is a name of a blending mode (in "Mix" category), but "Build Up" and "Wash" are options in the Brush Editor -> Painting Mode (available in the most common Pixel Engine; Color Smudge is always Build Up so there is no option for that). The RGBA brushes are just using both transparency of the brush tip to map to alpha, and value to map to either value or gradient when painting (instead of, like usual, just have either transparency or value to map only to alpha). Gives nice effects. // tiar

[@KritaOrgPainting]

@@yuli3873 The whole shortcuts system is a bit complicated :/ You can make feature requests on krita-artists.org . There is a manual page with information how to make feature requests: docs.krita.org/en/untranslatable_pages/new_features.html Also lots of new tablets have this option in the hardware, usually it's a button on the pen.

[@drinkwoter]

Can you guys please fix the adjustment layer delays when importing and working a psd 🥺,and i tried but I don’t know how to import the abr brush file to krita

[@katiegoldberg4362]

I never knew the difference between flow and opacity, I've only been using opacity for all these years!! Thank you so much for this!

[@wistyfish9844]

I’m still in the opening ad he explains flow!!?? Yeees

[@julyol119]

Right? Same here! I honestly don't know halff of what the art programs can or should do.

[@bucccket]

Same here until I decided to put the flow to 69% and ended up loving it for some reason. Never thought that such a silly thing would be so damn useful

[@kobaltkween]

Well.... For a very long time, opacity didn't work like that. I forget when it changed so that it didn't build within one stroke any more, but I remember noting the new behavior. It's useful to have both, and I get why opacity became a constant within a stroke, while flow works like opacity used to.

[@SoftBoiledArt]

I like the useful and to the point format of this videos. Most creators will just try to raise engagement inflating the content however they can.

[@youshimimi]

idk, it would have been way more useful if he actually proved his hypothesis on a specific example A video that promises replacing textures with settings doesn't show a single texture replacement or any other practical use...

[@Doubleaa500]

@@youshimimi He could be comparing it to custom shaped brushes too where it seems texturized where this you can design those similar textures with this technique maybe

[@youshimimi]

@@Doubleaa500 "could be" yeah. that's the problem. If he showed literally any useful example, we wouldn't have to guess what he meant. This is half assed video at best.

[@Doubleaa500]

@@youshimimi he definitely has good videos, but this was a bit unfinished

[@qind7453]

Now is the time when artists starting to reveal their " *Epic* *custom* *brushes* "

[@1o7oMaRcIn1o7o]

I hate the opacity brushes with a burning passion. I haven't found a single brush pack for procreate with proper watercolors, they all look like your brush strokes dry out right away

[@manhuman328]

Have you tried maxulichney brush pack yet, I've heard good reviews about that brush pack

[@JPEGTOMUSIC]

boro is the only artist who talks about interesting and useful shit like this out here

[@goodguybuy7961]

Damn, you must not know a lot of artist's on youtube

[@jabir5768]

@Alfonso The Lie Weaver same

[@colinredwood]

@@goodguybuy7961 what are some good ones to watch?

[@Hello-hello-hello456]

@Alfonso The Lie Weaver agreed!

[@GhostCry100]

One thing about using flow is that it makes the strokes look blurry or smoky, specially in more rounded brushes. That's because at the edges and ends there's less overlaid steps while in the middle there's more. Opacity looks sharper because of not that. I still prefer flow for the mentioned reasons.

[@lostarsm9240]

So what I'm understanding is Opacity is good for flat rendering like the air perspective and light/shadow adjustments and Flow is best for defining the subject (the overall painting)....... cause I've been doing it wrong for years and... yeah.. fighting blending those opacity strokes ..

[@dannypavlov913]

There's no wrong way to these things as long as the end result looks good. He's just giving a tip about his approach. I've personally never changed the percent of either opacity or flow and I haven't had a problem defining/polishing my paintings. If you are having problems with these things, this tip could possibly help, but more often than not it goes back to lacking certain fundamentals.

[@Maurilustrador]

I've been fighting with that separate strokes for a year now, I discovered opacity actually works against you, but at the same time I was afraid of working full opacity and losing that control I already learnt. But, lately I just went with full opacity and playing with flow, nad its game changer, your drawings look better immediately, you have better control over the edges of your shapes, characters, objects, render, etc. Clean edges are so important. My drawings don't look mushy or messy anymore. Really really nice tip 😊

[@hadriscus]

It's crazy how much this changed my relation with digital painting. I can't get over how much time I spent struggling thinking I was going mad

[@Xtimus14]

In Clip Studio Paint, I think they refer to Flow as "Brush Density". Since I mostly make cell-shaded artworks, I just use flat colors on new layers and adjust the opacity on layer and set blending mode to Multiply. In terms of fully shaded artworks, I just mess with "Amount of Paint" with pressure sensitivity. I personally find Flow harder to use since the strokes look blurry or smokey, but I'll try giving them another shot.

[@jasonbowen3136]

i've been struggling with digital painting for like over a year cause i hated how my brush strokes looked compared to real paintstrokes and this 5 minute video immediately fixed it thank you so much

[@satunasoundteam]

Thanks for giving some love to the criminally overlooked basic brushes! When I first started with digital, I was all over the place, using a million different brushes and textures in the same painting. It wasn't until I learned to use these simple round brushes that I got comfortable with digital painting. I didn't touch the texture settings until years later! I still use the round untextured brushes constantly while sketching/exploration. Have you done anything on solid brushes? I found that very useful not only to find shapes, but also to build up precision in finding colors/values. It also forces you to simplify and emulates the limitations of pixel art (something that was also extremely formative for me as a painter).

[@jimpoulos01]

Incredibly basic info. Incredibly useful info. I need more videos like this bud. This is awesome.

[@hadriscus]

You changed my life. I thought, am I the only one who thinks it's weird that my strokes overlap in this very unnatural-looking manner ? turns out, I didn't RTFM nearly well enough. Sincere thanks mate

[@MartinBrunswick]

Never really thought of this directly but I have been transitioning more blendy brushes for a while and I think this is why

[@bo2_435]

One thing I think that should be noted is those 2 settings may have different names in different software - they can switch places or sometimes one of them is called 'trasparency' (for example in Painstorm flow is called opacity and opacit is called transparency if that makes sense). Anyway, great video as usual :) I use a 4 brush setup right now that generally works for everything - 2 hard brushes (one opacity and one flow control) and 2 airbrushes (same).

[@luxarembrin5717]

Was just starting to experiment with this lol, thank you for the timing

[@Iyentra]

Same lol

[@zondwhomlovesjesus8444]

Ikr, I agree! Also, Jesus loves you :)

[@Blaxpoon]

I was wondering about this exact thing, so good to have someone adressing these kinds of problems

[@Darentei]

I can't begin to explain how much I needed this exact video.

[@estherente]

Eye-opening. Something really clicked in my brain right now and said: Wow, that's why!

[@spectreivart]

also about using only flow - with a textured brush when using only the flow control its actually make the texture blend, a bit like a dry brush - depends on the texture if you like the dry brush effects :)

[@AishaKyes]

I really dig those 5--min videos with you sharing your personal thoughts and stuff you've learned and so on! It helps a lot and it made me fall in love with that scratchy technique lately too! Thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤

[@crisrodriguez5693]

Thanks Boro!! I have been wondering (and suffering) about this since I started digital art. It's the kind of thing that art tutorials don't mention, and I find it super usefull!

[@wistyfish9844]

This couldn’t have come at a better time. I was so upset because I couldn’t use opacity brushes anymore with my surface pro, because the battery or something is going and my strokes kept ending and restarting when my pressure was too light or when I moved too fast. It was making all my art choppy and weird. This will solve everything! I mean I should still replace the batteries but still!

[@melsidian]

Thank you so much for this! I've never really understood what 'flow' was, so kinda just left that functionality alone and struggled with using opacity. This is a game changer!

[@pixelatedwarrior8990]

I was just struggling with this. Thank you.

[@mashypotat1941]

I DIDNT REALIZE YOU COULD SEE FLOW FROM THAT DROP DOWN AND ITS BEEN TWO YEARS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@torirazor4097]

Omg I’ve been having this problem FOREVER never knowing how to describe it. Thank you!!!!!!

[@ericmonaghan1231]

Dude Boro thank you so much, man. This really helped me. Switching from opacity to flow was a game changer. You've done it again! don't feel weird that i love you, sir

[@SapphireRidge900]

Thank you Boro, very useful. I just separated my main surface brush into an Opacity, and a Flow variant. Swapping between them has made the process way better!

[@alx_carvalho]

The way you explain process and tools are really useful and clear. Very on point and easy to apply (not only this video, but all the other videos too)

[@iblobliboo8501]

One day you should do a tutorial on how to make good brushes on krita, idk what I'm doing most of the time.

[@baylego]

Krita brush engine is pretty much the same as Photoshop, even simpler. Terminology mau change, but a Photoshop/csp tutorial should work

[@peacewalker3344]

@@baylego simpler but better and more powerful😅

[@variableparagraph]

I never understood the flow setting to be honest and so I ignored it and used only opacity. So this video kinda blew my mind, because it seems like the answer to the thing I was struggling with, but didn't know how to fix and so I thought it was just my skills not being good enough. You explained it so well and clear, I will definitely try using your approach. Thank you for this video!

[@Stephen-T-Clark]

Your next-level art tips are exactly that. I personally love them. Thanks for taking the time to share.

[@_Encie]

I've been struggling with this exact problem lately and then coincidentally this pops up. thank you

[@happy__amoeba]

This is *exactly* the tutorial/explanation I needed. I was just this morning/last night trying to figure out why the brushes kept having this segregated effect after I switched painting programs. I must have had the flow just the way I like it before, and the defaults now are very dofferent. Thanks!

[@arryacc]

I always struggled with this problem in photoshop. Never thought about turning the opacity jitter completely off and only using flow! Damn.

[@androsmartinez81]

How can you do that?

[@XraynPR]

@@androsmartinez81 you can go into the brush settings under transfer iirc, turn off opacity and enable flow by pressure

[@dizzard5297]

@@XraynPR I tried that but I'm not getting the same effect. Maybe I'm just not used to it though because I find it's kinda hard to blend with it...

[@XraynPR]

@@dizzard5297 well this is krita I think, so if you use PS or other programs it might work differently. You can try to fiddle with the pressure settings as well (I'm using a much slower rising curve now, which works nice enough for blending). In the end you should use what feels best for you. Play around with different brushes and see if you like this setting

[@shishi_anne]

I am very thankful for you using the program Krita as well, since the developers will listen to you and will help make the program better. Back on topic, i knew opacity didn't turn out for me in years and i should just really figure out my brushes properly and what brush is capable with its settings, thanks so much

[@verycreativethomas18]

This was what put me off digital painting for so long, cheers for fixing that up!

[@bobxbaker]

ah, been there kinda aswell, trying to use multiple pen pressure options at once, for example brush size and opacity together, but for a while now i try to just use each thing for a specific purpose and it's been going a lot better. at first i thought it was kinda the default thing to do, put everything on pen pressure to make the brush feel "real" since i have no concept of how real brushes worked at that time. but after some time struggling to use that i thought i'd look it up and it changed how i use brushes and look at brushes and settings in photoshop. it's really a huge step to realize how much your brush influences your work flow and process and any issues you might have with it and lastly finding a proccess that you like yourself that will also appeal to your own tastes.

[@SaturdayXIII]

Dang. This should correct a problem I've been having since I started digital art. Thank you.

[@chongillespie]

Pete Mohrbacher of Angelarium talked about this in a mentorship video on the 1FW channel just yesteday. It's a long one but very informative

[@renatolins4670]

This was a really great tip, thank you!

[@hikariyamamoto8285]

Боро, thx a lot for this channel and the huge amount of useful information about drawing🖤😭 посмотрела весь плейлист с туториалами, начиная с видео из 2015 и теперь вдохновлена твоим прогрессом во всем! И думаю вернуться к урокам английского 😩 🙈

[@mix-up9003]

I started using Krita recently and I was happy that after a little adjustment time from Photoshop and I am happy that I can get almost everything that I used to have, and the brush settings aren't that bad, I just wished there was a cloud texture to and I wouldn't have any issues with it anymore.

[@djmidori]

That's probably why i don't have a wide variety of brushes. I just prefer to adjust the opacity with default brushes and go with the flow

[@RoxaneLapa]

Perfectly concise. Thank you for this

[@aquaregia9029]

4 words: Just When I Needed.

[@SomethingWet]

Thanks so much dude I was always confused about flow/opacity and never thought to look it up, I just thought I'm too bad at painting lol! I mostly draw and my coloring and shading is more cartoonish (idk, kinda simplified and done combining different techniques?) to fit my artstyle but it's not flat, it was basically me trying to find my ways around it with my specific brushes, and it was kinda a pain in the ass, very time consuming. And I've tackled painting many times, trying to do it similarly to you and other artists at your level, I got easily discouraged because I usually played with opacity only and let the flow at its default value, and was wondering how the hell do people sculpt with those overlay spaces between strokes, esp when you stop a stroke and continue it in a new stroke, and especially when using regular simple brushes. Now I know and I'm going to play with flow instead and maybe I'll finally get a hang of it a little bit!

[@marks2708]

Thank you Boro. This was much needed!

[@TheFrettchen555]

Damn thank you so much for explaining that. Your tutorials and thoughts are always so interesting and helpful im glad to watch a part of your artist journey!

[@RafanTasTiiiC]

That’s exactly what i was looking for, thank you 🙏🏼

[@3polygons]

I agree. And it is more likely as it happens with oils, real painting. Tho we're still too far to get oils' richness and flexibility. But flow control + no opacity control is closer to that.

[@IndefinableNebulaCrystals]

thank you for explaining this , i was really confused with these sort of two "opacity" controls. now i know even more! ::)

[@caneane]

thank you for all the information you bring us

[@mouthless177]

i understand why you like only flow over only opacity but I didn't get why you didn't like the combination of both, to me the smoother strokes and the easier way to blend is to have them both on, I would love a follow up to this video that touches on that if possible :)

[@ginamicarts2077]

This is the kind of thing I need. Thanks!

[@julyol119]

Oh, this is so good! Actually really really helpful! Now I can't wait to try that out :D

[@abrakadaver_]

This is such an interesting and technical stuff I never payed attention, I think I'm going to switch from opacity to flow and check the results, thanks for sharing this info. Btw I love your vids

[@PablodeFreitasFontana]

Thanks!! In Clip Studio Paint the equivalent of "flow" its "Brush Desnity".

[@ilaydaergin]

you are THE art chanel. bless you

[@nakamura-8421]

This is how it always worked by default in Painter, and it was a big reason why brushes felt better to control than in Photoshop, even if you can prob do the same in PS after altering settings.

[@N9ROBES]

Woah 😳 I learned something very valuable. Thank you!

[@strafeeto]

Thank you for this video Boro; It was very helpful!

[@gonzalodasilva1229]

This is very Helpful. Thank you

[@cande.765]

Just what I needed! Thanks 🙌

[@katiagagne3956]

Thank you for the tips!

[@DLCSpider]

Not sure I agree with this one. I guess it depends on your priorities. I'm struggling more with painting well defined edges or surfaces and the "flow brush" doesn't help here, it just muddies things up.

[@haissake]

Actually this helps alot when defining hard edges, opacity control can be a mess when designing sillouettes and strong shapes.

[@Cernunnnos]

I find hard edges work best with a brush like the dry brush from Corel. I made a ton of brushes based on it for procreate and infinite painter. The general dynamics I needed to mess with were charge, pull, dilute and blend. I don't think you can do it in Photoshop, but most other modern painting programs like clip or procreate will allow you to make them. They basically let you have a charged brush stroke that becomes a blending brush depending on either pressure or length of the stroke. You can transition between hard and soft edges really fluidly with it.

[@Hello-hello-hello456]

@@Cernunnnos I struggled with finding this kind of brush for too long! But I made my own in clip Studio, using the marker base, if anyone wants to do it too.

[@BenjaminRound]

@@Cernunnnos this is also in krita and it is my favourite kind of brush because I can create detail and push colours around so easily as well as blending them. It is one of the default wet brushes in krita.

[@sterduzt34]

@@Hello-hello-hello456 I should have tinker a bit with the marker brush, I'm having a problem with muddy color using the oil brush :'(

[@timber6059]

personally, i have always preferred the look of opacity brushes, everything looks much crisper.

[@horamigaun]

You know... It's true. But I want to tell my story. I was drawing in Krita and Sai. There wasn't any interesting texture brushes that i liked. I was looking at a screen, then at my tablet and I didn't want to draw. It was really uncomfortable for me. But then I started to learn Photoshop. And you know it was way more interesting. I don't really use many texture brushes. I just like the fact that I can use it. I started to draw more often. And it's better for me now. So I can say that texture brushes helped me with drawing (indirectly)

[@tymondabrowski12]

But you can use texture brushes in Krita. There are ready brush sets, too (and you can usually load .abr brush tips, too). I don't understand, what made it more interesting when you moved to PS?

[@horamigaun]

@@tymondabrowski12 Maybe also the fact that all the tutorials in PS. And when i started drawing in PS I understood what makes art easier. And I didn't like texture brushes in Krita

[@Boxbox352]

best detail tip♥♥ Thank you!

[@perelope3217]

You know you’re good when a company listens to you

[@acrabdevis]

When I started a lot of artist talked about brushes with opacity control (Boro included) I could never get it, for me it just looked and felt wrong. I've been sticking with flow brushes.

[@alexanimate5906]

Great timing 👌

[@sociallyawkwardguy7106]

🤔🧐 I'm learning every time you uploaded a video

[@TrashArtist89]

Damn I had no idea this was a thing.. thanks Boro!!

[@linflas1081]

Oh god, thanks a million for that!

[@jiyanaltas5168]

I am glad you started using krita! And thanks for this video it is really helpful :))

[@daliblue_]

This is super useful, thank you!!

[@chitaetpavel]

The next big revelation would be the spacing In relation to flow...you can really achieve a sensitive stroke control by lowering spacing

[@soirema]

I love that you use Krita

[@squidaroo2830]

Thanks a lot for this Boro!

[@3d_hunta]

i recommend Yoshida Seiji, he is insane. 100 flow, manual opacity, manual size and round brush mostly

[@Tom-ef1mz]

This was amazing! thanks!

[@frankdrawsnear9995]

I have recently started using the DEFAULT SQUARE BRUSH and its fells goods

[@RobotJeeg]

This is gold

[@raskerwar2508]

I want to see how you would paint with your different ideas. I guess it is okay to let us use it as we please only giving slight tips

[@brendanbush2174]

Are you kidding me. I've asked MANY times what the diff between opacity and flow was, and was told "Eh doesn't really matter" and when I asked "How do I prevent each stroke separate stroke from harshly layering like this?" and people told me theres no way to do this. Im mad that its this simple and I probably would have figured it out if I sat down for a few hours

[@dregour6326]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

[@kyo614]

very nice tips sometime i always annoyed that if i start a new stroke, it would just 'add' to the previous stroke. with that in mind i have to mind where i brush. sometime i like this approach cause i can just colorpick it, sometime.. not so much :/

[@ProdByGhost]

hoyl shit thank you it was getting to me but not knowing exatly what he problem was or if i just didint know how to shade or color..... now it all makes sense this is game changer THANK YOU cause no one explains this shit

[@nabilamisilushafirila4130]

dang... all this time... thank you for the video

[@rafa666imjp]

Hi Boro!! can you do an analysis of how Anthony Jones (Robot Pencil) makes his paintings?

[@sotiriskotsonis5014]

Great video, as always! Which software do you use here? Cheers. :)

[@blinkence]

So just to summarize - turn opacity control off in the brush settings, turn flow control on, and then what? At what % should the flow and opacity then be?

[@cloggedaorta]

On software with no opacity toggles (is Boro using Krita?) I think you leave opacity at 100% and don't change it. At least it's what I do. You control the flow however you want. Flow is like the amount of pigment coming out of the brush, so if you're looking for a glaze, lower the flow, if you want a more matte look, increase it.

[@tofutofii3097]

@@cloggedaorta it is krita and I mean its best to experiment, considering flow and opacity the only other person I've heard talking about this is robotpencil who did a video ages ago about setting up his workspace and creating his brushes from scratch

[@cloggedaorta]

@@tofutofii3097 Definitely. Matt Kohr from Ctrl+Paint has a nice and quick demo too about it, although he doesn't explicitly advocate for either flow or opacity. I haven't used opacity controls in years but it's because I don't like my brushes to look like markers that get darker every time a stroke overlaps, but there sure are many uses for that look and for that mechanism of darkening! Edit: Matt's video kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWicg4qAm9KWkNk

[@louisklein9207]

It's really something you need yo experiment with. Opacity is the transparancy of a stroke. It's good when working with multiple values and colors then colorpicking to smooth them out or blend colors. Flow is the amount of paint released by the brush. Think of it as using a can of spray paint thats full and one that's almost empty

[@Baked_Potatoe_420]

thank you so much

[@xterminatorau]

What would the properties discussed in the video be in Procreate?

[@Maria-vg6bx]

THANK YOU!!!!!

[@tohsakathighs6678]

Me with ibispaint on a potato phone : understood 👁👄👁

[@CryptoFeeders]

Can u make video on making good color cimbinations.