Real Watercolor Brush

[paulo]

Fellow painters,

If you've ever worked with real watercolor, you know that Painter's default brushes lack in feel and result. Well, I've been toying around with Painter's Watercolor Brushes and I think I've got real, real close to the real thing.

Attachments don't seem to be attaching, so take a look at the result here:
http://www.inmidia.com.br/carpen/sictransit.jpg

E-mail if you want this one. Sorry, PC only.

Best strokes,

Paulo

[This message was edited by paulo on June 08, 2001 at 13:11.]

[paulo]

Fellow painters,

If you've ever worked with real watercolor, you know that Painter's default brushes lack in feel and result. Well, I've been toying around with Painter's Watercolor Brushes and I think I've got real, real close to the real thing.

Attachments don't seem to be attaching, so take a look at the result here:
http://www.inmidia.com.br/carpen/sictransit.jpg

E-mail if you want this one. Sorry, PC only.

Best strokes,

Paulo

[This message was edited by paulo on June 08, 2001 at 13:11.]

[ghi stecyk]

paulo

the forum is updating slow as of late. i inadvertantly posted twice the other day thinking that my first attempt didn't load.

stecyk66

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[Jinny Brown]

paolo,

Very nice! I'll write to you privately to ask for your brush recipe.

Thanks for offering it. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Jinny Brown
http://www.pixelalley.com
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[paulo]

Jinny has sent me a Brush Recipe Template and I'm using it to share the Real Watercolor Brush with you.

Please be sure to send me anything you do with it!

My website shall be up soon with most of my work and some new brushes.

I'll let you know!

Thank you again, Jinny!


Paulo

REAL WATERCOLOR BRUSH RECIPE
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GENERAL
Dab Type: Circular
Stroke Type: Single
Method: Wet
Subcategory: Grainy Wet Abrasive
Opacity: 29%
Grain: 90%

SIZE
Size: 10.3
Min Size: 23%
Size step: 5%

SPACING
Spacing: 36%
Min Spacing: 1.0
Damping: 50%
Continuous Time Deposition: box unchecked
Cubic Interpolation: 2 points

ANGLE
Squeeze: 100%
Angle: 25%
Ang Rng: 0
Ang Step: 0

BRISTLE (greyed out/not applicable)

IMPASTO
Draw to: Color

EXPRESSION
Size: Pressure
Jitter: None
Opacity: Pressure
Grain: Pressure
Color: None
Angle: None
Resat: Pressure
Bleed: Pressure (invert box checked)
All others greyed out/not applicable
Direction: o

WELL
Resat: 100%
Bleed: 100%
Dryout: 122,1
Brusj Loading: box unchecked

AIRBRUSH (greyed out/not applicable)

RAKE (greyed out/not applicable)

RANDOM
Jitter: 0.00
All others greyed out/not applicable

WATER
Diffusion: 0
Wet Fringe: 34%

CLONING
Clone Color: box unchecked
All others greyed out/not applicable)

MOUSE
not applicable

[Jinny Brown]

Paulo,

You're very welcome. I'm glad that you used it. Here's part of a message I'm sending to you privately, just to let you know what I've done with the brush so far.

I've got it saved as a variant and have been playing with it. It certainly is different from the default Water Color brush variants, and I'm finding it does some surprising things. For instance, when I first put down the brush and begin to paint, it paints with full color. Without lifting the brush, if I keep painting, the opacity decreases and it blends colors. Sometimes it won't do this lowered opacity and blending thing, though, and I haven't figured out why. All I've done is change paper textures and move the Grain slider. Oddly enough, paper texture seems increased when I move the Grain slider to the right (normally it works in the reverse, moving to the left increases Paper texture). The only thing in the settings that I can think might be the cause is that Bleed is set to Pressure/Invert, but I can't see how that has anything to do with Paper texture. Does it? Hmmm.. there is so much to learn about brushes... always!

If I get something done that's presentable, I'll post the image.

Thanks again! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Jinny Brown
http://www.pixelalley.com
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[gmotto]

Hi Paulo,
I have followed your recipe for this brush and am having a bit of a problem with a typo, I think.

The Well: dryout value you have is 122,1. Should it be 122.1 or 1221 or 1,221?

WELL
Resat: 100%
Bleed: 100%
Dryout: 122,1
Brusj Loading: box unchecked

Thanks
Greg

[Jinny Brown]

Hi Greg,

I noticed that too and decided it was supposed to be 122.1 since Painter seems to want to jump in increments and that's one of them.

Now that you bring up the question, though, I'm going to try the other number and see what happens. If you don't hear from me, it may be that my house blew up. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Happy Saturday!

Jinny Brown
http://www.pixelalley.com
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[paulo]

Ok,

My fault. The correct value is 122.1

I live in Brazil, and we few countries of Portuguese language use commas instead of dots to separate decimals. I sometimes forget that when writing in English.

Keep painting, and please send me (or post) what you're doing with the new brush! I'm curious!

P

[paulo]

I've received a message of someone saying that the Real Watercolor brush seem to be losing color too fast. She asks me if the recipe is right.

Well, the quick brush drying up is meant to emulate a real watercolour brush. In real watercolour painting, when the brush dries up you may keep using it to mix colors or to fade hard edges. That's why this brush is supposed to be "real." Try keeping the pen pressed after the paint dries out. You may get some interesting results!

If you're working with larger file sizes you may try to increase the DRYOUT setting in the WELL tab, to, let's say, 300 or 500.

Keep painting

[This message was edited by paulo on June 09, 2001 at 19:21.]