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Procreate Brushes

July 24, 2018

I've learned to love Procreate, and for the most part I use brushes straight out of the box. But there are a few that I've created or modified that I find useful, especially a couple of blenders that match the behavior of my Photoshop brushes. Here they are: (The titles are links)

The NEW Round brush: I really like Procreate's "Round Brush, but I like something a little more forgiving for smooth gradients but that still gets that nice hard edge. I occasionally adjust the spacing to get a rougher stroke and easier blending.

Rough Inking: Great for flat areas with rough edges.

Rough Ink Small: Has a smaller size range, great for outlining the edges in a similar style to the rough ink pen.

The Flattened Photoshop. Sometimes you want that digital feel with the control that a brush with flattened roundness gives you. This brush does a pretty good job!

Palette Knife. This brush doesn't have the "Height" texture controls that I like from Photoshop, but it gives me 80% of what I'm looking for out of a digital palette knife.

The Occlusion Brush. A gradient brush with the falloff of ambient occlusion, great for quickly tucking contact shadows up against edges.

The Smudge Nice. Very similar in behavior to my Photoshop smudge, but it follows the "Azimuth" of the stylus.

The Dry Blender. Like my dry blender from Photoshop, use as a smudge tool.

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Try to guess what actor I had in my mind as I drew this guy.
Try to guess what actor I had in my mind as I drew this guy.
The embarrassing return to play after the rage controller throw.
The embarrassing return to play after the rage controller throw.
My son helping me butter the toast this morning. #buttersculpture
Assignment 1 for my digital sculpting class is usually a posed bust sculpt done with a clay-like finish. I usually demo with a troll or a funny old man, but this time I wanted to do show how to do something with more refined shapes. #sculpting #zbrus
Assignment 1 for my digital sculpting class is usually a posed bust sculpt done with a clay-like finish. I usually demo with a troll or a funny old man, but this time I wanted to do show how to do something with more refined shapes. #sculpting #zbrush #digitalsculpt #bustsculpture #princess
From now on, this image will be my response when people ask me why I prefer doing my work on the iPad.
From now on, this image will be my response when people ask me why I prefer doing my work on the iPad.
My favorite person in the world. There are not words adequate to describe how great Marilyn is, or how much of a positive impact she has had on my life. The most exciting thing is that, if you follow the trend of history, the best parts of our marria
My favorite person in the world. There are not words adequate to describe how great Marilyn is, or how much of a positive impact she has had on my life. The most exciting thing is that, if you follow the trend of history, the best parts of our marriage are yet to come. Thank you for choosing me, Marilyn! #givethanks
Painting with the symmetry tool in procreate is an enormous amount of fun. Oh, and my schoolism classes are on sale right now!
Painting with the symmetry tool in procreate is an enormous amount of fun. Oh, and my schoolism classes are on sale right now!
I’m so grateful for my family. I never thought I was a big family kind of person, but now I would not have things any other way. Family life is awesome and I’m thankful for the funny, weird, and good things each of my kids bring into my l
I’m so grateful for my family. I never thought I was a big family kind of person, but now I would not have things any other way. Family life is awesome and I’m thankful for the funny, weird, and good things each of my kids bring into my life. #givethanks
Today I’m thankful for the amazing people that I get to work with and all the ways they inspire me to be better at what I do. Here’s a selection of color keys I made for the recent Darkmoone Faire trailer, with lots of help from the team
Today I’m thankful for the amazing people that I get to work with and all the ways they inspire me to be better at what I do. Here’s a selection of color keys I made for the recent Darkmoone Faire trailer, with lots of help from the team at Blizzard, and then MoonColony and the motion story team took the ideas and made it all look magical. I am humbled every day that I get to learn from the best. #givethanks
Today I’m thankful for this table. It represents a string of small miracles for my wife and I, and allows my large family the room to finally eat in comfort with *no fighting. There’s nothing greater than a hub of good food and good conve
Today I’m thankful for this table. It represents a string of small miracles for my wife and I, and allows my large family the room to finally eat in comfort with *no fighting. There’s nothing greater than a hub of good food and good conversation, the only place we still gather all together these days. *may still include some fighting. #givethanks