pencilling realistically in photoshop

[lanternkid]

Heyu, have you tried fiddling with the dual brush settngs to get texture? Ehh sorry I dun really know PSCS, if that's your version of Photoshop...Good luck with it :hmm:

[Ilikesoup]

Well, I use Photoshop Elements 2.0 since it came with my Wacom Graphire. Not sure if you're looking for a solid line like you'd get with a hard, round brush or a grainy line like you can get from the chalk or pastel brush but either should work well. BTW I've heard some people put a sheet of sketch paper over the surface of their tablet so the Wacom stylus drags more like a pencil on paper.

[rogfa]

Which version are you using? If you have the brush features of P7 or CS you can try a semi-hard brush, around 70%, enable smoothing and set your brush to multiply. I think this will mimic the 2B pencil found in Painter, which I use quite a lot. Setting the brush to multiply should build up darker color with every stroke. But you will have to play with your opacity and flow settings.

Good luck!

[mofogie]

thx a bunch. i been playing around forever with settings, and the closest i got is with noise, scattering, and brush dynamics, opacity 70%, and wacom tablet set to softest.

it still doesnt feel right for some reason. i dunno maybe i should just not illustrate digitally in pencil :sad:

ive tried scouring the internet but couldnt find any graphite brush for photoshop 7. well, hope someone has an idea.

[mofogie]

thx for the tips.

the closest i can get is with hard brush, opacity 70%, scattering, noise, and brush dynamics. Still doesnt feel right though.

also tried scouriing the internet but coulndt find any graphite pencil brushes for PS 7.

hope someone has an idea.

[Lunatique]

To be honest, Painter is much much better at simulating natural art tools than Photoshop. You might want to look into that as an alternative. I even designed a custom brush in Painter that looks identical to real life pencils.

[ashakarc]

That brings me to the absolutely useless inferior "pencil" tool in Photoshop, found as an option to the wonderful brush tool...1-bit pixel painting tool for the mainframe age, good morning :)

[LadyMedusa]

Zhuzhu got a wonderful pencil preset for photoshop. It looks wery pencil-like :)
Here is his watercolor tutorial (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=259965). That's where yo get it ;)

[Schwinnz]

That brings me to the absolutely useless inferior "pencil" tool in Photoshop, found as an option to the wonderful brush tool...1-bit pixel painting tool for the mainframe age, good morning :)

Useless ?? I use it constantly to fix bad antialising.

[mofogie]

agh sorry for double post.

thx for zhuzhu's brushes ill check em out.

heres a sketch i did using my current settings, color: a dark grey almost black, opacity 60%, pixel size 4, brush dynamics, noise, and scattering.

the picture is of one of my characters from the game Guild Wars. I took a screenshot as a reference, because i'm not too good at foreshortening yet, and basically just drew freely once i got the pose down.

if i didnt tell you it was done digitally would you think it was done with graphite on real paper? if so, then i guess the brush does its job. It still doesnt feel right to me though at larger pixel sizes.

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