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Nolita
11-08-2004, 01:00 PM
It's been awhile, but good news, I finally figured out how to make the brush I wanted, the one that paints like it's loaded with two colors at the same time. here's a sample pic:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/Nolita/0210893f.jpg

I used the brush with subtle colors to make the flower(my first attempt at making something with the brush, colors are too subtle in my opinion), and the background is just a fill, and a distracting one at that, but you can see what the brush is capable of. I want to tweak it some more, and make sure I have everything completely figured out before explaining how to make it, but just know, that the next time somebody wants to know if there's a brush that lets you paint like Donna Dewberry, or load the brush with two colors at once, there is, but you have to make it yourself.
Jinbrown
11-08-2004, 09:51 PM
Hi Nolita,

Congratulations!

When you get ready to share your custom brush variant, just Zip it, upload it to your website server, then post the URL to your Zip file.

We already knew we could load more than one color on a brush variant, but not how to make a custom brush variant like yours.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing how you set this one up.
Nolita
11-10-2004, 01:47 PM
Thankyou Jinny,

Anyway, I have only some free webspace. I'm not sure how I'll manage to get the brush to the masses as a pre-built brush. I may be able to beg some space/bandwidth off a friend of mine who has his own site, he also has some customized brushes there which he uses on a daily basis. I don't know if he would do it though. The webspace I have is very limited, we're talking free website here. Do you know if anyone has been able to upload these files for download to their free website for download? They really are rather small, as individual files. Oh, that reminds me, I have more than one friend with a website, surely if I can't get the files to upload/download properly from my free site, one of them will be nice enough to put it either on their site, or in one of their brush collections.

Messing around with the controls I have found that I can customize the brush in different ways, do you think it would be worth taking the time to do that? Because all Painter users being different some do like the brushes I call Impasto brushes, while others like the flat brushes.

So far I have adjusted the pressure on it, so that the wiggle used to blend colors and make "ridges" on a petal, can be simulated via the pressure of the brush. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get it to make bristle marks. As yet, the only way to get bristle marks to appear is through using either a 0 resat brush on top of the brush stroke made with my brush, or make a new layer and use clone brushes(btw, it's another example of how well Painter and ArtRage play together, because the tracing paper feature in Artrage, made for some interresting blending/brushwork effects). I was going to call this brush "petals and leaves" but I have since found out that it's also good for creating folds in fabric, smooth rocks, and vessels like pots and vases, I'm pretty sure the more I experiment, the more I will find that it can do. I may just name it for myself, since I don't seem to fit neatly into any particular category either, though that may sound really egomaniacal.

All in all, I do want to share it, as I see it as being a huge timesaver for people like myself, who spend tons of time placing varying tones of a single hue side by side and then blending them in order to achieve the illusion of 3 dimensionality. Basically it's like having found the missing link between the brush, and the gradient fill. I'm pretty much floating on air right now.

Oh, and so you know, I hope to have something to share(meaning actual brushes) by the end of the week, or at least the beginning of next week.
nafa
11-11-2004, 02:56 AM
Very interested in the brush, and waiting for more info on how you create it. Am sure there are many others like me.
Jinbrown
11-11-2004, 04:55 AM
Nolita,

I think a lot of people would be interested in your brush collection, whatever you decide to name it. You could accompany the brush library file (Zipped, please) with a text explanation of what each brush variant does and how you've used it.

Do organize your brushes in a custom brush category, then place that custom brush category in a custom brush library folder so it will be easy for people to load it into Painter without all the confusion about what folders go where and what files go where.
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