Seeing the many successful community brush bundle collaborations, I would like to open another community brush bundle project: Ghibli Inspired brushes. Seeing as there aren’t that many brushes to create quick vegetation for concept art and suggestive paintings, this would be a great opportunity to make this change. The project is open to any other Ghibli style brushes of course.
Be inspired
Below are a few (paid) brush packs, from which we could draw inspiration. But don’t use any material that cannot be donated to the public domain.
And a painting timelapse (unfortunately this is from Photoshop).
Do you want to join?
So what’s the plan? Anyone can submit resources, be it brush textures, brush presets or bundles. These are made by the community for the community. We can test the submissions, give feedback and make adjustments with the ultimate goal of making them into one bundle that everyone can use and download.
Actually, I just found out that you can use SVG brush tips, so I think it would be good to work with them while creating brush tips. That way we can always rasterise them at a certain resolution later.
I also added this feature request: SVG brush tip - control smoothness/ sharpness with an image upscaling factor which would be useful for vegetation specifically as it really depends on the project what size brushes you’ll be using.
I will try to get started on some brush tips. It’s much easier for me to do this now that I know I can work with vectors for them. But it may be a while before I have time for that with current deadlines pending…
I’ve been searching through my collection of resources for brush tips you can use for this project. All of them are free to use and most importantly, free to have.
Most of the ABR-brush sets hosted on DeviantArt, for example, suffer from the fact that the creators have stolen them from everywhere and often do not even name or know their original creators, as they sometimes openly write.
That’s why in most ABR’s you’ll find the same brush tips over and over again, that is not only a problem of DeviantArt it is widespread.
The following selection doesn’t suffer on this issue!
This and other sets from Devin Elle Kurtz, TamberElla on DeviantArt, may be a start →
Devin Elle’s “Foliage & Grass Brushset” as a Krita-Bundle can be found here:
LJFHutch made some resources in GIMP-format, at least I find them great →
Maybe Chickenbusiness’ brush tips created from photo templates would also be worth a look, you don’t necessarily have to apply them photorealistically? You’d get quite a lot of brush-tips to chose from.
Since most of the sets from Chickenbusiness were created with newer PS versions, they would have to be converted first, I can gladly give you the links to ready converted versions in my cloud should you be interested. Here is a link to a (not yet converted) set on DeviantArt, so you can get an idea of what to get →
Thanks @Michelist for the links!
What I think I’ll be doing is trace over these brush tips so I can make SVG tips for all of the brushes that will be used as stamps. That way, it’s possible to make these brushes with smaller and larger size tips. Also, it ensures their consistency in tip sizes. If the brushes are too slow, people can easily adjust the size of the brushes themselves. No need for re-exporting. And they will always remain sharp.
Should or shouldn’t the brush tips contain opacity?
It’s possible to mask the tips to get opacity in them, not quite sure yet whether I’ll do that. I personally find vegetation brushes with opacity a bit of a double edged sword. They work well in some occassions to make these really suggestive marks, but they make it difficult to cover up the background. What do others think?
What kind of brush tips do you prefer for vegetation?
I prefer solid brush tips
I prefer brush tips with opacity
It depends on the use and can differ from brush to brush
I’m having trouble figuring out how to import the bush packs into my Krita.
I would think that the set of brushes would have a way of importing them into the program since they’re on a site for Krita, but perhaps I’m just having trouble?
I’d love some help if it can be given, as I paid for the first set and I’d love to be able to see what I can create with them! <3 Thank you in advance!
Edit: After looking back, I’ve realized the error I’ve made. I hadn’t double checked just WHAT I was buying, and hadn’t realized what this post was for. Only after reading it over again, did I realize that this was in fact, NOT a set of brushes being posted to download and use in Krita, but an ask for a collab in MAKING the brush set.
I look forward to seeing the completed set of brushes when they’re released, and I look forward to buying/downloading them to use.
For the record, I do still plan on working on these, because I do have a need for these brushes. But at the moment I cannot afford to spend time on making brushes, though that will change in the foreseeable future.
I have changed the category to reflect that this does not yet contain any resources for Krita. Sorry for the confusion.
All good! It was my mistake.
I have a hard time reading occasionally, so it was my misunderstanding.
I appreciate you guys for emphasizing the purpose of the thread. Thankfully, I’ll still be able to use the photoshop brushes, and I won’t be trying to get a refund on the brushes I can’t use. It’s not a big deal to me. Instead, I’ll just leave it be and say I’m supporting an artist for making those brushes. No sense kicking up a fuss over a little money. It would just be a waste of my time and theirs.
this person has an amazingly large FREE Ghibli inspired grass and field brush pack, all royalty free etc.
the brushes are only for Procreate, Photoshop CC, and Clip Studio Paint.
BUT they also provide the transparent PNG files for all the brushes, and a video of them in use, so it could be possible for someone who knows their way around the brush making end of things to put together a version for Krita.
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No sense kicking up a fuss over a little money. It would just be a waste of my time and theirs.