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Creating a custom brush

Creating a custom brush

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Creating a custom brush

Today we're going to look at the creation of a custom brush. Now, I've done brushes in many of my other tutorials. In fact, my series on the making of Time Squared there's a whole series of different brushes in there including brushes for hair and decorative chains, and so on. But here what we're going to talk about is pepper. Now in this particular painting of mine, Lunch in Tiburon, I'm going to zoom in really close here to look at the pepper, there's a little pepper inside of the shaker. Now, it looks pretty complex, but, it isn't. All it is, is a single brush that has been applied to multiple layers. First, let's see how that brush was created. I'm going to create a new one. New File here. And that's a pretty good size, no problem. And I'm going to take my paintbrush. I'll pick a hard edge brush. Nice and hard, and somewhat small. Maybe even smaller than that. There you go, nice little small brush. I'm going to draw a little shape here, which will be a little flake of pepper, like…

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