custom brush exercise

Apologies, I meant to post this much earlier.
This custom brush was derived from:

Brushes Download

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4521931/awesomebrushes.abr

Sam Smith Portrait/brushes

oops, I forgot I failed to upload these when I was in class om Wednesday :/

Jacob Zimmer self portrait and brushes...and abraham lincoln...

Custom Brushes

Here are two custom brushes.

Jake Ross - self portrait

Allison M. FIelds Brushes

Lisa Adolph Brushes and Self Portrait

Here are the Brushes I created and my self portrait

Brushes

Trisha Cleveland portrait

Self portrait using three different custom brushes.



Brushes used:



1st: A general sketching brush I use often.

2nd: Dots, used for freckles and hair.

3rd: Grungy texture brush. (not used here)

4th: Soft texture brush, used to smooth skin.

brushes!

the top brush is a skin brush, made from circles of different size and opacity.
the bottom brush is an ink and water brush, made from scans of several ink washes overlapping.

My Brushes

For this assignment I created three different brushes and then played with the settings of each. I first created a leaf with a stem, and then adjusted the settings so that the opacity and size of the leaf varied as well as the spacing. I then created a leaf without a stem and applied the same settings. After using this brush I decided I would like them to go in varying directions so I changed the angle under the shape dynamics. The third brush I created contains a series of dots. I first created the pencil type setting specified in the tutorial by turning on dual brush. Going back to the original settings I noticed that by varying the opacity of the brush it came in handy when creating freckles. Lastly I added texture to the original brush and used it when creating hair.
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Custom_Brushes 3 & 4

brushes

These are the two brushes i made for the class

more brushes!

The first brush I created was the dot tutorial. The second is using the ink tutorial.

brushing up

For this tutorial, I overlaid two photos of my dog and my cat in difference blending mode, cut out an interesting part, duplicated and rotated it a couple times, and ended up with this nice bleedy-watercolorish brush.


For this tutorial, I made a quick painting with india ink, water, and salt. Then I scanned it, cut out a little part, messed with the levels and blending modes, and voila: a chalky little brush.

Brushes!

First, I made a brush that used multiple dots to create a stringy look. I've found it's great for hair!

I also created a texture brush using a photograph from a play I was in back in high school.

Using this...

I was able to create this texture.

Both brushes used on top of one another...

brush

Reference photo: I took this photo when I went to Hoover Dam, AZ during the winter break 2010. I cut out a portion of the mountain and made it into a brush.

Brushes

this brush was from one of the tutorials

Grunge and Animal Texture Brush

This brush was created using a combination of rabbit and cat fur. By layering the two textures and setting the blending option to "difference", and then duplicating and small patch of the resulting image and rotating it 3 times, I received the fur-ball-looking brush to the left.




This paintbrush is based on the picture of scrap metal to the left. I played around with the different filters Photoshop had available as well as using the render cloud feature to get the resulting paintbrush.









Both of my brushes are available at this link here.