Master These 4 Art Brushes and you will Master Them All

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  • Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
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    The most common question I get (and a lot of artists get) is "what brush are you using?"
    It's a good question but a lot of time artists are frustrated by this question. And there are some good reasons why. Many brushes act the same way with some minor differences.

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  • @Coco-Loco
    @Coco-Loco 10 месяцев назад +111

    Yes!! I noticed this when I saw that some of the best artist's time-lapse only ever used simple brushes like a round brush and an air brush and I was confused as to why their work had so much more charm. I later figured out its:
    1. Having so much skill with those couple of brushes. Knowing how to make the most out of them, use them everywhere and make them look good.
    2. Knowing their software well. A lot of cool little things they did was simply because they had a good idea of how their software works! Like blending modes, layer masks, etc. All of these are little tips they've either naturally discovered over time or found out from someone else but no one really talks about them and hence it took me over 8 months of drawing to realize that layer masks can make my life so much easier.
    3. Tiny little bits of tricks they've learned over the year. They're skillful with their tools and have some things only they know that they've learned over the years of messing around with their tools. Those tiny little things can go a long way and also adds so much charm to your art. Maybe it's how you pick colors, maybe it's a neat little way you've learnt to add extra light (like how Neytirix just maker their art go 10× better by simply adding finishing golden lights), etc.
    Overall, I think it's just messing around and developing skills!

    • @yanohexonen8713
      @yanohexonen8713 8 месяцев назад +2

      omg I would actually be so grateful for info on how to use layer masks, I've seen so many people use them but I never get how they work and how to harness their potential ToT

  • @McKMagic
    @McKMagic 10 месяцев назад +192

    He's backkkk

  • @alias_juno
    @alias_juno 10 месяцев назад +18

    I literally just found this channel yesterday and was so sad to see you'd stopped posting here, I must have manifested your return

  • @asimian8500
    @asimian8500 10 месяцев назад +72

    For painting, you can simplify even further: Lasso Tool + Soft Brush/Airbrush
    With the Lasso Tool to create selections you can easily do hard edges or combination hard and soft edges or create gradients or simulate textures. Now, some people more used to trad tools may not like this combination because it breaks their painting process and spontaneity, but for everyone else more into illustration then this combo is killer. Other tools I use are the hard opacity brush, bucket tool for color flats, and magic wand to make quick selections using color flats. Completely agree with Brad that mastering the brushes mentioned are all you need and will allow you to use variants and special brushes. Sometimes nothing beats a specialty brush, but you can do 100% of your painting with just the aforementioned brushes. Next steps are understanding color theory and how light/color affect your subject and environment.

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 10 месяцев назад +3

      Agreed. Learning keyboard shortcuts is a total must with that method, but it's completely worth it.

  • @FourBlackRabbits
    @FourBlackRabbits 10 месяцев назад +72

    Every time you upload a video my drawings improve exponentially. You can explain things so perfectly succinct that I get that "how did I not realize this, it's so obvious!" feeling each time

  • @ronwevsleys
    @ronwevsleys 10 месяцев назад +5

    When the world needed him the most, HE RETURNED

  • @perfectlyrandomstuff
    @perfectlyrandomstuff 10 месяцев назад +7

    I'm so glad there's a new video on this channel! Thanks Brad.

  • @KikiAelita
    @KikiAelita 3 дня назад

    Holy moly thank you. This was what I was looking for today. It's so hard for me to figure out what different brushes achieve and this at least gives me a great foundation.

  • @2014akhan
    @2014akhan 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is one of the most valuable channels on RUclips! Thank you for your time!

  • @DebTingTing
    @DebTingTing 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks for another excellent and practical video! The efforts you put into explaining and creating these videos are insanely impressive.

  • @marinabarbosa227
    @marinabarbosa227 10 месяцев назад +1

    Just saw the beginning and this already deserves the thumbs up! This is pure gold!!!

  • @MisaMinako
    @MisaMinako 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for uploading, I am a complete beginner and love how you set up your videos!

  • @Amariiiiie
    @Amariiiiie 10 месяцев назад +6

    That part about it taking his whole life to draw like a child but mastering more complex art forms in a short amount of time- I felt that. Lol I talk about that all the time as I endeavor to simplify my art style for illustrating children’s books. I can’t believe how complicated something so simple can be for me.

  • @ZebulonsPi
    @ZebulonsPi 10 месяцев назад +1

    Yay! New Brad Art School video!!

  • @maggiesmith8405
    @maggiesmith8405 10 месяцев назад +1

    OMG! New video! I’m so excited!!

  • @jbiliHacker
    @jbiliHacker 10 месяцев назад +2

    thanks! very helpful! i was always skeptical about the brushes as i use them randomly!

  • @hopeymac9197
    @hopeymac9197 10 месяцев назад +1

    So happy you are back!

  • @masontheartist
    @masontheartist 8 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic video. I feel like you really hit on what new painters need in this video!

  • @sailor_trinity241
    @sailor_trinity241 10 месяцев назад +2

    I'm so happy to see another video.

  • @brucebissell7626
    @brucebissell7626 9 месяцев назад +1

    AWESOME INFO BRAD. THANKS FOR THE TIPS. GOD BLESS.

  • @cartoonistgautam1965
    @cartoonistgautam1965 Месяц назад

    very useful explanation! Thank you

  • @dehiie
    @dehiie 8 месяцев назад +1

    This is incredibly useful. I thought I had to find the ultimate one brush that had all of these characteristics and somehow I would be able to do hard and soft lines with just one brush. Thank you, now I just have to find these 4 art brushes for each thing and I'll be good to go finally. Thank you so much

  • @u.k.1207
    @u.k.1207 10 месяцев назад +4

    I really enjoyed seeing you again... well... in a way 😅
    Thank you so much for the new video!
    Greetings from Germany🙋‍♀️

  • @Dumbkin
    @Dumbkin 9 месяцев назад +1

    Sir you're back! I've been practicing your tutorials. So far, I'm still not that good at perspective but I'm still working hard on it. I did learned how to shade well with pencils lately. Tysm

  • @photonrayleighm2666
    @photonrayleighm2666 2 месяца назад +1

    Very informative. Thank you!

  • @slastenushkaslast3402
    @slastenushkaslast3402 10 месяцев назад +17

    This is a brilliant video. Thank you SOOO SOOO MUCH for this. I am always so overwhelmed by all these brushes and choices and value packs... I have no idea what to use and how... And you explaining it so easy and accessible. Thank you

  • @lunasylphhh
    @lunasylphhh 7 месяцев назад +1

    Wow as a beginner this video taught me a lot. Thank you for this great video❤

  • @NomeDeArte
    @NomeDeArte 8 месяцев назад +1

    Great video and channel, thank you! Best regards from Argentina!

  • @sonofkavagh
    @sonofkavagh 10 месяцев назад +2

    I love your theory and training videos! (I mean, really, I love them all - but you get my point!)

  • @LadyBlack909
    @LadyBlack909 10 месяцев назад +18

    Oo as a self-taught artist since childhood, this just made digital art so much simpler to me. Thank you for explaining the basics - I'm fairly confident in my abilities, but get overwhelmed by photoshop HUGE possibilities! Your breakdown in this video is super useful 👌

  • @roguesodyssey
    @roguesodyssey 10 месяцев назад +1

    I think I'm going to sign up for your class. Thanks for making these videos.

  • @alexyona4144
    @alexyona4144 6 месяцев назад

    Incredibly helpful thanks 🎉

  • @-.-skye-.-
    @-.-skye-.- 8 месяцев назад

    Sooo cool, much needed ! Thanks

  • @sids_zz
    @sids_zz 10 месяцев назад

    Brad thanku so much for quality content

  • @kiara6237
    @kiara6237 9 месяцев назад +9

    I think it is better to stick to 4 or 6 brushes for everything over 50.
    I learned much faster after I squashed all those ''second versions'' and rare uses because I focused more on how to take the best of the few tools I had.

  • @lucianostegun
    @lucianostegun 6 месяцев назад

    Your videos are just amazing! They made me want to draw more and more :)

  • @Haizou
    @Haizou 10 месяцев назад

    Wow I didn’t realize brad made a brand new channel! Can’t wait for the next videos to come😊

  • @mattigue9014
    @mattigue9014 10 месяцев назад +2

    Ur vids are soo helpfull much better than those 3min Drawing tutorials where someone just draws a head and expects you to follow all the steps. Please upload more vids ur the best.👍👍👍👍

  • @ronyboylive6934
    @ronyboylive6934 5 месяцев назад

    awesome vid!!! thank you so much!!!!

  • @zhera3759
    @zhera3759 10 месяцев назад

    thanks fot the new video!! best art teacher ever

  • @EngineerRon
    @EngineerRon 10 месяцев назад +10

    Great to see this one! 😁🎨

  • @loveArtnotFood
    @loveArtnotFood 10 месяцев назад

    Facts! Great video!

  • @Sam_Game_Dev23
    @Sam_Game_Dev23 10 месяцев назад +3

    New vid. Good job. Make some more tutorials!

  • @ramadrian248
    @ramadrian248 10 месяцев назад

    MY BOY IS BACK! I miss your videos so much

  • @szczypcia
    @szczypcia 10 месяцев назад

    Brad, you're the greatest!

  • @MaazAyaz_
    @MaazAyaz_ 10 месяцев назад

    Moreee videosssss we want!!!!🎉🎉❤

  • @TerraEmperor1
    @TerraEmperor1 9 месяцев назад

    This is the video i needed!!!!

  • @Kittyboi.
    @Kittyboi. 9 месяцев назад +5

    Different brushes literally affect my art style! Even sketch brushes! I have two sketch brushes I like to use depending on what I want to draw. I still haven’t found a inking brush I feel comfortable using though but even with those I pick and choose depending on the vibe of the piece. Though I often don’t get past the sketching part of my process 💀

    • @wmoros4902
      @wmoros4902 5 месяцев назад +2

      I got to the point where i just raised the opacity of the round brush and added a pressure and slight angle tapering, and that worked out fine for me. Clean lines for line work with good dynamics for line weight.

    • @Kittyboi.
      @Kittyboi. 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@wmoros4902 oh that’s a good idea! I might try that!

  • @slateportraichu5416
    @slateportraichu5416 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for useful tips=3

  • @Sinsit-World
    @Sinsit-World 10 месяцев назад

    Yeah you back I love your videos they are so funny and I learn something too 😂

  • @elmedia8692
    @elmedia8692 8 месяцев назад

    Great video 👏thanks.

  • @lc3
    @lc3 10 месяцев назад

    Hey that's a great approach!!

  • @Scarfacefan1
    @Scarfacefan1 9 месяцев назад +1

    When the world needed him he came back he got me into drawing after I quit :)

  • @bebeshortz
    @bebeshortz 3 месяца назад

    thankss helped me a lot

  • @Xx_PedOphil3_GaminG_743_xX
    @Xx_PedOphil3_GaminG_743_xX 10 месяцев назад +5

    Yay finally another video ❤

  • @jaquelinelimademelo937
    @jaquelinelimademelo937 10 месяцев назад

    I loved it Thanks🎉

  • @HANAAEWAS2023
    @HANAAEWAS2023 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you I like this tricks so much 👏🎇👏

  • @shelbypost3234
    @shelbypost3234 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you soooooo much

  • @sunnyschramm9650
    @sunnyschramm9650 10 месяцев назад +4

    the bird 🤣

  • @LuluFrance
    @LuluFrance 3 месяца назад

    I love the intro... this me, in bird form, starting youtube tutorials as a new owner of a Wacom trying to figure out why my brush strokes don't look like those in tutorials I've watched! 😅

  • @hosseinrezapour251
    @hosseinrezapour251 10 месяцев назад +1

    thanks brad. it was usefull.

  • @rayout23
    @rayout23 10 месяцев назад

    The first 20 secs already killed me 😂 love your work!

  • @fangchick93
    @fangchick93 6 месяцев назад

    I like to use an ink brush for base colouring, cell shading and hard detailing, pencil for sketching, and air brush for soft shading.

  • @Humberto240597
    @Humberto240597 10 месяцев назад

    You are the best!!!

  • @voreak289
    @voreak289 10 месяцев назад +1

    The return of the best art teacher

  • @ratnaraj2056
    @ratnaraj2056 10 месяцев назад

    I love the bird! and the entire video too, of course 🙂

  • @cadetamankushwaha7838
    @cadetamankushwaha7838 10 месяцев назад

    I wanted such video and you posted like you listened me

  • @mavincent
    @mavincent 10 месяцев назад +5

    I wish we could of known which specific brushes were used in procreate in this video (with all the properties if some were modified). Unless these are shared in the courses ?

  • @CreativeFIDI
    @CreativeFIDI 9 месяцев назад

    Thanks a lot for ThaitVideo bc i am trying to learn digital Art but The Main Thinge to overwhelm have always been the Trillion brushes!

  • @mauricioflores3732
    @mauricioflores3732 10 месяцев назад

    If y'all want to paint such oil or water color painting make sure you use a texture paper brush and use overlay blending mode to get the feeling of an actual painting 👌🏻

  • @labrabellart1380
    @labrabellart1380 8 месяцев назад +1

    It's really interesting to me that my own workflow consists of all these brush types, despite the fact that I've never actually taken the time to learn.

  • @Jar3xe
    @Jar3xe 10 месяцев назад +1

    HE CAME BACK YESSSSS

  • @jeffreypostma6832
    @jeffreypostma6832 10 месяцев назад +6

    This is a pretty good way to categorize you brushes. What artists do mean when they say the brush does npt matter, is that a special brush is not going to magically make the same quality art as the artist you are asking the question too. The only brushes where I can see this a valid question, is with special effect brushes, or very specific texture brushes.
    I do think the brush matters a lot when making digital drawing and painting, but you need to find your own preferences, the brushes that suit your interests and your way of working. I love to use textured flat brushes, especially when I can vary the orientation of the brush tip with my Wacom tablet and can control the pressure for the amount of texture I want. It is just a very fun way to work.

  • @rockymine9738
    @rockymine9738 10 месяцев назад

    Yesss. He's back

  • @isabelleviana8573
    @isabelleviana8573 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for the tips. I'll use them on Infinite Painter.

  • @NoNameGirly
    @NoNameGirly 10 месяцев назад

    That's very helpful! I am a beginner and I hoarded hundreds of brushes in Procreate and have no idea how to use them :)

  • @jrexplorers
    @jrexplorers 10 месяцев назад

    Yahooo! he's back!!

  • @MelvinChen-jw3do
    @MelvinChen-jw3do 10 месяцев назад

    Welcome back

  • @Stratelier
    @Stratelier 5 месяцев назад

    As much as I use GIMP, I disable all of its built-in "brush dynamics" presets (by removing the config entry for the relevant folder), for two reasons: 1 - I'm not really at a point where all those presets even matter, 2 - because the presets are read-only, GIMP won't let you tweak their settings on the fly AT ALL, which all but forces you to use manual dynamics _anyway._
    To go into a bit of detail about how GIMP handles attributes:
    - Basic brush attributes (stamp, size, shape, edge hardness, opacity) can be adjusted on the fly for every painting tool as a standard part of that tool's options. (By "stamp" I mean the underlying intrinsic shape of the brush itself: circle, square, pattern, etc.)
    - "Dynamics" attach further customization to the above attributes, in particular the ability to map them to parameters from the input device -- for example, linking width or opacity to the input pressure of a drawing tablet (complete with adjustable response curves too, so for example I can make a "high contrast" curve that yields full opacity from less-than-full pen pressure and/or avoids false-positives from super light pen pressure)
    - Most GIMP resources have built-in presets (brush shapes, color palettes, patterns/gradients, etc), and _(as a rule)_ these presets are read-only so if you want to tweak one you must create a duplicate of it first. *This is really only a problem with "dynamics",* as it's something you might want to make on-the-fly adjustments to in certain occasions (and not all the time).

  • @dentanlim
    @dentanlim 4 месяца назад

    Recommend a built-in procreate brush for each of the four types?

  • @IstyManame
    @IstyManame 9 месяцев назад

    Wish i remember all your lessons when i actually start drawing

  • @BEN9116
    @BEN9116 10 месяцев назад

    ayy welcome back teach!

  • @amanuelshimelis2409
    @amanuelshimelis2409 10 месяцев назад +1

    Ohh finally you're back .

  • @keaton718
    @keaton718 3 месяца назад

    Do these brush tips apply to Adobe Illustrator, especially if you want to end up with vector art?

  • @AmberRathour366
    @AmberRathour366 10 месяцев назад

    Nice video

  • @katto4073
    @katto4073 9 месяцев назад

    i am scared of technology and learning new things so i only ever use the hard opacity brush! round one for my lining and a square one for my coloring. feels just like drawing with markers :)

  • @Dr_animation
    @Dr_animation 10 месяцев назад

    Welcome back sir
    I am from India 🇮🇳

  • @ramram3882
    @ramram3882 9 месяцев назад

    hey brad any scholarships available for your course ?

  • @calvinDy
    @calvinDy 10 месяцев назад

    this gives me passion

  • @thelookbackmachine
    @thelookbackmachine 2 месяца назад

    So what Pencil brush do you use in Procreate? Thanks!

  • @Aulgahzar
    @Aulgahzar 8 месяцев назад

    this is helpfull

  • @lego_minifig
    @lego_minifig 2 месяца назад

    I feel like finding a good inking brush is hardest, at least for me. The pressure sensitivity and the taper just tend to always feel slightly off to me. In Procreate I have only found a few that really feel good. Still haven’t found one with the pressure sensitivity I like on PS despite using if for much longer. In fact, Krita default brushes feel better to me than PS and I can’t quite pinpoint why.

  • @devorbacualex
    @devorbacualex 8 месяцев назад

    What software do you use for animations? 😁

  • @MCAP887
    @MCAP887 9 месяцев назад

    May i ask if you can do the "cell shading color trick," where you start with "grey colors and turning them to specific color you wish," your tutorials had always been a cure for my depression

  • @xunixunini
    @xunixunini 3 месяца назад

    What are your settings for the technichal brad pen please ?

  • @Haizou
    @Haizou 10 месяцев назад

    Hey is there like a free app for the round brush that differs in opacity?people say it’s the default for most apps but I most of the time for me just see the opaque one😕

  • @basileds8971
    @basileds8971 28 дней назад

    Hey is there a way to get those in illustrator cause i don t manage to make them by myself ?

  • @WedgyBlue
    @WedgyBlue 10 месяцев назад +1

    I regret using Opacity and pencil brush. Its not good for my artstyle heheh. I will stick to ink brush it fits well.

  • @rayyanfawaz3790
    @rayyanfawaz3790 10 месяцев назад +1

    Can we make short animations
    In realme tab 6 (256gb) variant

  • @jionscott2836
    @jionscott2836 2 месяца назад

    Your bird sounds made my cats go crazy