Inspired by watercolor artists such as Chien Chung Wei, Joseph Zbukvic and of course John Singer Sargent. This set contains a total of 30 custom brushes, mixer brush variants and erasers for getting an authentic watercolor effect. This pack is in tool preset (.tpl) format.
I've grouped these brushes into 3 main categories.
- Opaque. No opacity controlled by pen pressure. I often use these for shape creation for masking or adding back flecks of exposed paper.
- Pooler. These are the fun ones, they have the wet on dry effect of pigment pooling on the edge of brush strokes.
- Soaker. Gives the wet on wet effect of adding darker washes on top of existing areas of paint. I mainly use these on new layers with blending modes + the included wet edge layer styles.
- Choose between tool preset .tpl and standard .abr format.
As watercolor is a transparent medium i get the most authentic results from building up from light to darker tones using various blending modes on new layers, this has a nice effect with color and preserves texture. The blending modes I use the most are linear burn, linear light, multiply, color dodge, soft light and good old normal layers.
The included paper texture layer styles add a pattern overlay texture to a layer that remains even if smudged or painted over with opaque brushes. This allows you to work on a single layer apposed to adding a layer with a blending mode when you want to use another colour.
For reference the PC specs i use these brushes with are AMD FX 8350 cpu, 12GB DDR3 ram, GTX 960 graphics card.
If you have any problems just message me and i will do my best to get back to you.
Recources
Using tool presets
Using layer styles