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[Garagarape]

Hi there,

I've just arranged my messy brushes presets in Photoshop

and added a few new picked on Alexande Diboine's Devaint Art page:

 

http://zedig.deviant...h-two-373428542

 

His brushes are really cool.

What do you use?

What do you do to save time when drawing?

 

I've found nothing else but setting the brushes I use the most on action shortcuts... Probably very low-tech solution...

 

 

[carlosa]

i use Krita for overall

MyPaint for fine painting

Gimp for final compo and layer blend retouch

 

krita  and mypaint can share brushes and all are out or this world

[digman]

I have the same basic style. I use 3 to 4 brushes that I created to build up the composition, then add more later to finish the work.  The method you described works really well, I found.

 

Here is a link to 161 pdf tutorials from ImagineFX... I am sure you can glean a lot of good information about optimizing your digital painting from them. They are all well done and excellent resourse. The artists use Photoshop in most of the tutorials but they can be adapted to other paint programs easily...

In fact, I downloaded all of them... 

 

http://www.imaginefx.../workshops.html

[Garagarape]

Carlosa, Digman,

 

Thanks for sharing your ideas.

I didn't know about "Krita" and "Mypaint" and I thought that Gimp

was a simple soft, mostly used by programmers to visualize textures...

Look like it's possible to make great things without Photoshop.

 

Wow, those pdf format tutorials are good! I'll download one

from time to time to try to arrange worflow.

Thanks!

[carlosa]

http://krita.org/

 

http://mypaint.intilinux.com/

 

amazing paint apps* and are free

 

*both have windows version

[digman]

My main 2D program is TwistedBrush (Windows) for the power to create your own brushes, A great brush engine...  I like it's Layer blending modes better than Photoshop as well.  TB at 99 bucks, an excellent buy...

 

Krita is my external paint editor for 3DCoat in Linux...

 

http://www.pixarra.com/