I want to present to you: ABluSkittle's Free Krita Brush Collection - 2023 and 2025

ABluSkittle seems to be an active supporter of the Krita community, because here is the next bundle they offer free of charge. ABluSkittle describes it this way:

Tablet Tilt Support: My brushes are designed with tablet pen tilt in mind and are supposed to rotate based on the pen tilt angle. If your tablet does not support pen tilt, then you can still use the brushes, but you will probably need to edit the brush tip rotation setting yourself to fit your preferences.

42 brushes total - However there are a lot of duplicates of the same brushes which have various setting changes for different uses and effects. So the actual unique brush count is closer to 17 brushes I think.

These brushes are a mix of my own custom brushes, a few Krita default brushes and some old free brushes that I’ve accumulated over the years of using Photoshop and edited various times for my own purposes then eventually migrated them over to Krita with further edits due to the different brush engine parameters.

I didn’t include any paid/premium/exclusive brushes (Because I wouldn’t own the rights for those. I don’t use any brushes like that anyway).

I hope you like the brushes! …or at least 1 or 2 of them maybe!

You can get it from here:
ABluSkittle’s Free Krita Brush Collection - 2025

And in the ↓ next posting ↓, you will find the previous bundle from ABluSkittle, there, a lot of icons seem to be identical, but ABluSkittle did at least adjust the ↑ presets in the new bundle ↑, so the set below has some similar looking brush presets, but none identical to the presets of this bundle. ↑

Enjoy! And if you can afford it, you might make ABluSkittle happy by giving them a tip for the work they’ve put into these products, which they offer for free.

Michelist

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ABluSkittle describes their bundle this way:

These are my 2023 brushes which I used frequently in Krita. They are labelled for use with the Pop-up palette so that they appear in alphabetical order and are grouped together appropriately. You can increase the amount of brushes you can hold within the palette in the Krita settings under ā€œPop-up Paletteā€.

This pack is FREE because there are a few Krita default brushes in this pack too which I use frequently or have edited slightly. Some of the brushes were old brushes I found over a decade ago being given away for free for Photoshop and I’ve edited them over the years to work best for my own process and to make them work in Krita because I had to rebuild them all from scratch to get them to work properly.

Tilt Warning: They are mostly designed to use pen tilt for brush rotation. If your tablet doesn’t support tilt, then you can still use these brushes, you may just need to rotate the brush tips manually for your own preference or set the brush ā€œRotationā€ parameter to ā€œDrawing Angleā€, another parameter or just turn off the rotation entirely within the brush editor (You can get there by pressing F5 by default usually).

You can get it from here:

ABluSkittle’s Free Krita Brush Collection - 2023

Enjoy! And if you can afford it, you might make ABluSkittle happy by giving them a tip for the work they’ve put into these products, which they offer for free.

Michelist

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Do we really need two topics for this? I want to present to you: ABluSkittle's Free Krita Brush Collection - 2023 and 2025 seems to include all the brushes from the 2023 version.

That’s a question I can’t answer for you. On the other hand, this set also seems to be downloaded simply because there are users who always want to have everything, which is why I posted both. And the clicks visible here do not reflect the number of additional downloads of this resource. Since I put it online last night, this bundle has been downloaded over 20 times, as I just saw on ko-fi. So it seems to be of interest to at least a fraction of users.

Michelist

I’m not saying that both downloads don’t have a reason to be, just that this could have been in one Topic because they are so similar, for a moment I thought you accidentally posted a duplicate.

Merge them if you want. I have no problem with that.

Add/Edit: For those who want to know/be sure:
I just checked the presets, every single preset was at least adjusted in the new bundle, since they do no longer share the same sizes, beside of the fact that the newer bundle has a different naming for them.

Michelist

Brushmakers are superstars. They provide the tools that people want and or need.

This is an excellent bundle. I enjoyed testing each brush individually, and had a hard time deciding which sketch to post here. Thanks so much.

This one was done by the Splotch Jitter brush, one layer, no tricks.

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hi, i inserted in krita, but it appeared me just 3 brushes.

:slight_smile: Hello @Consty, and welcome to the forum!

Did you restart Krita two times after you imported the bundle (/bundles?) into Krita? This is the usual measure to take if resources don’t show up after import in Krita. If that doesn’t fix your issue: → →

Here, we need more information from you to be able to help you. Usually, users should provide the following information in all of their requests for support, to enable the helpers doing their job without having to request them all the time. And that although all the information is not needed in any case, only in many of the cases, simply because it saves a lot of requests and enables us to begin helping you quicker/earlier.
These questions are:

Which OS in which version do you use? E.g. Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11?

Which exact version of Krita do you use? You can find it via Help > Show system information for bug reports, where it is written behind Version:, we need at least the number before the brackets, but when you are already there, you can copy it in complete and insert it in your answers. For example, my current version is 5.2.15 (git 89dea6d). If you can not start Krita (anymore), you can find it out with a look at your downloaded installation/portable package. Examples: krita-5.2.15-x86_64.AppImage, krita-x64-5.2.15.zip, krita-x64-5.2.15-setup.exe, krita-5.2.15_signed.dmg. Also, the store pages and Steam provide this information for the programs you download there.

From where do you have your version of Krita?
Is it the version from Krita’s homepage, the repository of your Linux distribution, Flatpak, AppImage, Snap, the stores from Apple, Epic, Microsoft or the Play Store, and if it is from somewhere else, from where is it?

In the case you use Windows, do you use the installer version or the portable version of Krita?

For requests where you have issues with your HID, so graphics tablet/stylus, mouse, touchpad, whatever, we need the manufacturer and the exact version number/naming of the device (which with touchpads built in into your notebook/laptop is impossible, there name make and model of the notebook).


Now to your issue:
Can you tell us which of the two bundles you did import into Krita, or did you import both?

You wrote, three of the brush presets are shown, which brush presets are these three?
You can get their exact name at different places, in the brush editor, on the far left of Krita’s status bar, or when you hoover your stylus above the brush preset in Krita’s brush preset docker (but there you need to have an extreme steady hand, I, with my shaky hands are not able to get it that way), but if you use a mouse to hoover over a brush preset it is easy to let Krita display its name.

Please provide a screenshot of your whole Krita window which shows your Brush Presets Docker, do not cut off anything belonging to Krita not even the status bar or the title bar (caption), we need to see your Krita in full. You must not have a picture open for this, in your case an empty new project would be sufficient.

By the way, you wrote, you ā€œinserted it in Kritaā€, if you didn’t do it as the following description explains it, can you please describe how you inserted it in Krita?

A bundle is installed in Krita via the menu ā€˜ā€˜Settings’’ >> ā€˜ā€˜Manage Resource Libraries…’’ and in the opening dialog you have to click the button + Import in the next dialog browse to the downloaded bundle, select it and confirm the selection. Now Krita imports that bundle, and you can use its content, so the brushes in case of this bundle.
In case this BUNDLE comes in an archive-file, like ZIP or RAR for instance, then you have to unpack the archive to get the BUNDLE-File it contains, then you can proceed as described above.

Michelist

Now, i restarted, krita, and i checked. It appeared all brushes.

Thank you!!

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