Everything about those impressive paintings was achieved by the beautiful combination of colors, textures and brush strokes on the canvas. Yes, of course the real brushes and of course the canvas and not the smooth, (quite) textureless paper. So would his choice be the color markers or the real painting brushes.

Ask him to paint his next painting with color markers and on a normal paper instead of a canvas. Now imagine your favorite classic and traditional artist, let’s take in my case the Dutch master painter Rembrandt. Whenever I am asked this question about brushes, I am using this very short example and I think it is really on point: So let’s get it on! Photoshop Brushes for Digital Painting with Oil Texture or just the round Brush I think the ideas that came into my mind about this are quite interesting.

Let’s start to look at it in a deeper way. I was also one of them back in the days, but I have really changed my mind.įrom today’s point of view I would say this is really nonsense. So, in this blog I am writing of course my own opinion and I know that there are also people claiming that custom Photoshop Brushes don’t matter at all for digital painting. And to be honest even in Anime you will be happy for some parts or even the background to have some special brushes. if we want to do paintings like real painters (that includes also the Concept Art) we should be very thankful for every great digital painting brush, that has not only a special oil paint texture on it, but also has a very natural flow. If our goal is to draw Anime/Manga or any other very “ digitally” looking picture you are very fine with the standard given Photoshop Brushes. So, I for myself, have been going through many years of digital art experiences as a Concept Artist for the game industry and somehow I feel I can give a quite good answer to that question.įirst of all the answer is “yes” – they do matter and of course it depends on the style you want to achieve! This question has been ask many times and many artists have given different answers about this topic. Is there any difference in painting with the standard Photoshop brushes or custom-made brushes, like for example digital oil painting brushes? And are there any “best brushes for digital painting”?

Best photoshop brushes for digital art