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Looking for a particular type of brush - OurJud - 02-26-2017
I began using Krita some weeks ago, after seeing it mentioned on here, and for some time suspected I preferred it to GIMP, but then when I was unable to get a particular effect/look to my work I switched back to GIMP and now prefer it to Krita.
However, Krita does have a few brushes that GIMP doesn't and I'm trying to find out if I can get something similar.
Unfortunately I don't know what you would call them, or whether they're 'animated', but their icon is a pencil tip and they're used for creating what I think are fractals. As you draw with them, very fine fractals will branch off creating nice wispy patterns. The others just seem to be variations on this.
I browsed the GIMP brushes on deviant art and found a few Fractal Brushes packs, and the previews showed what seemed to be the exact same effect, but when I installed them and went to use them, they're simply pre-rendered stamps of a fractal pattern, rather than a free-hand brush.
This is the kind of thing, but I need the brush to be free-hand rather than pre-defined stamps as these are.
Fractal Brushes
If anyone can offer any advice or links to the sort of thing I'm looking for it would be great.
RE: Looking for a particular type of brush - Espermaschine - 02-26-2017
What do you want to do with these brushes ?
Paint ? Or use them as a "stamp" ?
RE: Looking for a particular type of brush - rich2005 - 02-26-2017
I think that the effect you want is not really possible in Gimp.
Something like the brush stroke at the top of this: http://i.imgur.com/AZda0qz.jpg that is an application 'FlamePainter'
What you can do is use brush dynamics something like this
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Experiment making some brushes.
Right side the brush. This is a strip of dots, four layers with dots offset each layer. Saved as a gih brush.
Left side, the brush used with some brush dynamics in effect.
RE: Looking for a particular type of brush - OurJud - 02-26-2017
(02-26-2017, 07:13 PM)Espermaschine Wrote: What do you want to do with these brushes ?
Paint ? Or use them as a "stamp" ?
Paint, but I thought I'd made that clear with this.
Me Wrote:[...] but I need the brush to be free-hand rather than pre-defined stamps as these are.
Rich, that's not quite the effect but I'll have a look at playing with the dynamics. It may be that I just have to go back to using Krita on the occasions when I need this particular brush.
Thanks all.