making brushes

[mightyfun]

I have been trying to make a line brush that looks like a hand drawn line with shaky imperfections. My problem is I can't figure out how to make it appear as a continuous line when making it into a brush. I get straight lines that kind of intersect, but don't flow.


Any help would be appriciated,

Jen

[MarkMyWords]

Hmm... that's a tough one. Perhaps using a dot or circle instead of a line segment will get closer to what you want?

I can get a kind of 'roughened' line (attached), but I don't think that is exactly what you are looking for.

[Soquili]

Jen have you tried using the Freehand and Brush Tool with the Freehand Smoothing set to a low number? Just draw your lines without a custom brush. Set the line width and stroke style you want after drawing the line.

[handrawn]

am working on this one as we speak - it's a toughie

[Xhris]

I have been trying to make a line brush that looks like a hand drawn line with shaky imperfections. My problem is I can't figure out how to make it appear as a continuous line when making it into a brush. I get straight lines that kind of intersect, but don't flow.


Any help would be appriciated,

Jen

You could just draw a line with the freehand tool, setting the freehand smoothing down to 0%. Then all your wobbly hand movements are automatically captured and not smoothed out.

(I really should read further down the thread...Soquili already answered this way...)

[handrawn]

You could just draw a line with the freehand tool, setting the freehand smoothing down to 0%. Then all your wobbly hand movements are automatically captured and not smoothed out.

(I really should read further down the thread...Soquili already answered this way...)

ah so you are talking about making the line weight 'wobbly' - fair enough - but thats just cosmetic

lets now talk about making the detail of the line itself come and go like it would with a real pen - skips and glides - that sort of thing
any ideas?

[masque]

brush made of three irregular blobs used to produce a very quick clown sketch.
Derek

[Xhris]

ah so you are talking about making the line weight 'wobbly' - fair enough - but thats just cosmetic

lets now talk about making the detail of the line itself come and go like it would with a real pen - skips and glides - that sort of thing
any ideas?

Skips and glides? Do you mean if you were to draw a pencil line on a piece of paper, and take a high resolution photo and zoom in; recreating that detail in a brush?

[handrawn]

brush made of three irregular blobs used to produce a very quick clown sketch.
Derek

like that derek, thanks
I'm currently going for a line rather like the pencil in artrage or painter - see attachment

Skips and glides? Do you mean if you were to draw a pencil line on a piece of paper, and take a high resolution photo and zoom in; recreating that detail in a brush?

yes
it was a rhetorical question really.
I have a dozen or so pencil types
and twice as many paper types
and the subtle differences that are made by the hand are far more complex than you can get with a tablet
more to the point - with a digital brush you have to define the parameters before you make the line, its not your hand thats really in control - good craft maybe but not art IMO

EDIT: By which I mean not art in the traditional sense of course. Derek and Ron and others produce wonderful digital art and I am in awe of some of the work that is produced. Its just that a computer screen is not a sheet of waterford or fabriano, and it will never display the same three dimensional effect and more to the point the tablet doesn't react that way either .

[DAL]

Nice masque & handrawn