Chris Reilly's Custom Brush set with tutorials
This product includes Chris Reilly’s custom brush set for Photoshop, featuring over 260 hand painted brushes that he created and tested over ten years of digital art experience. It is primarily aimed at Landscape Art and Environment Design, however there are also drawing brushes, brushes aimed at giving a painterly and traditional feel, blending brushes, a variety of FX brushes for costume, treasure, fire, magic, chains, and some abstract brushes made using traditional paints and inks.
The pack also features an in depth two-part custom brush tutorial so you can see how to make and design your own brushes, as well as a PSD that has examples and notes about the custom brush set with a video going over all of the brushes. Includes the PSD for the custom brush from photo reference demo. Overall there is just under 3 hours of real time video that covers the following topics and covers the included PSD which itself has multiple demonstrations in.
Topics covered –
- Creating a custom brush in Photoshop
- Creating an action
- Designing a brush with an overview of the various settings
- Effective use of custom brushes – multiple illustration demonstrations
- Creating a custom brush from photographic reference
- Using a photo to make a custom brush
- A variety of illustration tips for example on composition, colour, texturing etc are also given throughout the video demonstrations, however this is not the focus of the product.
Please note the brushes were designed for normal brush mode use, whilst they can work in the mixer brush and other modes the results will vary. Also note some of the brushes have a lot of detail so if you have a slow computer you may have trouble using them. Furthermore whilst you can open ABR files in Procreate; as I designed and tested these in Photoshop CC, it is unlikely you will get the same results in Procreate without modifying the settings.
The videos are MP4s, I use a free program called VLC player to run them, but they should work on any video player.
Over 260 hand painted custom brushes for Photoshop with a focus on environment textures and effects, a 2 part custom brush tutorial in realtime, a psd full of examples with an included overview video.