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New Painting Brush!
🕑 Added 2021-03-22 15:43:15 +0000 UTCHoorah! A new brush for Procreate. This time, not for line-work, but for coloring and painting. Before I got into digital art, one of my favorite mediums to use was oil pastel. The main thing I enjoyed about it was how opaque it was, but nonetheless, it was easy to blend. My brush may be digital, but it acts very similar.
HOW TO USE
Leave the brush at 100% opacity. All the artworks you find in this post were made entirely using the Koteri Pastel at 100%. Procreate is an interesting tool. It really requires the artist to master a "sensitive touch". What I mean by that is, similar to a real pen, pencil, or in this case pastel, the amount of pressure you apply greatly affects the outcome. No need to adjust pressure curves or any of that. Practice is all you need.
HOW TO PRACTICE WITH THIS BRUSH
When I was enrolled in art class from the age of 6, I moved up very quickly because of one thing. My attention to details, negative space, lighting, form, and focal view. By 8, I was placed in a university art course practicing with university students and adults. I did many oil paintings and my teacher kept on pushing me. What did he make me do to get me to where I am now? Shit ton of studies off photographs. I'd spend 3 to sometimes 6 weeks staring at one photograph, analyzing every minute detail, and applying paint to canvas. That is how details get burned into your mind, making it impossible to forget. Till this day, I apply the same methods.
The image above is a photograph by Alex Webb. What drew me into it was the playful chaos of the children, the awkward framing of nearly all the children which gives it a very authentic "moment of time" look, and the incredible combination of brown, blue, and the pops of red. Below is the study I did of it on Procreate using this brush. With nearly 20 hours of work, what I learned from it was invaluable. I left my own "signature" in the artwork as to not make it a complete copy. I popped some cyan in to add an outline to the dark skin and as a highlight to the skin of the white kid and I upped the saturation of the red to intrigue the eyes. But the forms, the shadows, the negative space between children in relation to one another and the objects, all of those things, I'm doing my best to imitate.
One thing to remember. You do not need to be a great, or even a good artist to be able to copy art well. I've known normal guys who wouldn't even consider themselves artists, but sometimes they'd copy an image and produce something nearly identical to the reference image. What they had was patience and an eagerness to be correct.
Below are a couple more pieces done using the Koteri Pastel. To show the texture of the pastel on canvas, I enlarge the brush and avoid rendering too much as to not fade away any texture. Then sometimes I make the brush small enough to imitate a pencil crayon to add finer details.
Here's a special image. I was intending on doing KON Volume 1 using this brush. Problem was, each panel took nearly a day. I used to finish a page a week, and so I had to ditch this method after 2 months and only having 8 pages to show for it. Either way, I was happy with what I learned. Have fun, practice hard, and show me what you make!
Comments
Ps... it showed up in my imported brushes as soft pastel but it’s koteri pastel brush in my download folder FYI
Go to Patreon through ur browser rather then the app. Worked for me
William Dorion
Is there a reason why the brush isn’t downloading on my Ipad Pro?
MKFreigeist
Yeah Im using Photoshop to draw and it sadly cant use the .brush file :/
if possible, could you show a way to open the brush?(apps/software etc to use when downloading the brush). For some reason it’s not downloading to my pro. Or if it’s okay could you show a tutorial on how to edit certain brushes to get to your brush? If that’s okay..?
Hi Koteri I can’t access the brush. Can I get some hellp?
Queria mt ver um video acelerado, sem ser timelapse, de vc usando esse brush para pintar pra entender melhor na pratica
Awww sick!
makes me want to jump into colour right away :D
You're welcome!
Reggie
Oh man thank you this is gonna be so fun to use
Tô a quase 3 anos procurando um pincel como esse, que felicidade ❤️
Once again, you've read my mind. I was just thinking about learning how to do digital painting for a poster assignment. 🙏
Can't wait to see what you make with it.
Thanks! I hope you make some crazy pieces with it.
David Tenorio
Every brush you've released has been a game changer for me, I know this one's going to kick ass!
I’ll be taking that, I’m working on some posters and now I’m eager to see how this brush works out
