INK brushes for INKTOBER 2023. Feedback.and final release


Last for today.

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Is really nice to see them in action.

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If you’re looking for volunteers, I’ll do some testing.

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You are in my list then. Thanks

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look at these, is really hot here almost 40ÂȘC here

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From that sheet, nÂș 26 looks so fun, probably my favorite of the bunch, followed by 11, 12 and 15. I have some pens with some similar texture, they make such great fillers.

The last one in don’t really enjoy, mainly due to personal preference. Round(ed) brushes for pens seems to lack some grain, and in some cases some sharpness. Do they have some texture on it? They appear to be round brushes with ratio and some scatter, perhaps?

Do you plan to release as bundle, similar to other packs?

Looking forward to these, Ramon. Beautiful work as always.

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Thanks for the feedback. I notice you like a lot textured things. The last one uses the mypaint engine, no texture available there. And is not as flexible as others but I feel it very good for mimicing old cartoon style.
I take note about your preferences. Thanks.
And about bundle
 I think I don’t have enough feedback yet

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I came back to take another look at #9. Ooph. I think I am lusting after this pen.

When sketching with a black ballpoint pen, I love it when that little blob of excess ink asserts itself into the drawing. #9 is the first ink brush I’ve seen that might deliver that little jolt of excitement that comes from dealing with an unexpected mark.

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Hi @RamonM,

I love what you do and I was just starting to get into inking comics when you posted this, so thank you!

When I try to ink with dynamic brushes, I don’t get as nice of an intuitive feel for them due to their design.
For example, I get thin lines and when I press a little harder, it immediately goes into a dot and then thicker line with a bit of a blur. The lines don’t feel smooth and seem bumpy sometimes, even while maintaining the same pressure.

In regards to inking brushes, I love the look and feel of this drawing and I was curious to know if there are brushes that can be made to quickly ink an illustration while feeling easy to use and intuitive.

I also wanted to if it was possible to maintain the texture of the brushes but also make it easier to color when using Krita’s Enclose and Fill tool since textured lineart brushes cause this effect; where the color does not stay inside of the lineart, even when the settings are changed, it does not fill in neatly.

Thank you for your help and for always keeping us all in mind.

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@URAVERAGEBOI The blue one is to mimic the cheap pen called Bic Blue color. I will review that, because there is already a brush called Pilot in the the set. Don’t worry :wink:

@LaTor , About your pressure issue It could be your Global pressure settings and the your tablet brand. Also the General Curve in Tablet’s graph controller. (The app that comes with the driver.). Also the setting in the brush is important. I need more info as you see sorry.

About he image , is really cool, but as Joe Kubert said " The secret to become a good inker is repetition and patience. I am learning in this field too yet.

And about enclose and fill i would use the lineart as a reference to create my flats. But i will take into account. A good point. Because i have brushes with a nice visual fade like “wasted”, Maybe they are not the best to perfect filled areas. :thinking:

anyway i keep my journey.

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Ok here we go with the first bundle. Is in WIP mode so no cover, good thumbs or tags. All the brushes has 2023 as prefix. Except some that are located in the texture section. So now let me explain what i need for a good feedback.

  1. I need to know your tablet, why? because recently I purchase a supercheap Huion H580x and my feel of pressure is different with my 2 wacoms.

  2. Is important how you have your GLOBAL curve in of pressure in settings/Configure Krita and speed. (mine is 6 but yours can be different. If you change it please let me know the new value there
 I have my settings like this.



    My settings in Huion H580x

  3. Last release of Krita 5.1.5 and a lot of good vibes about this new bundle.

  4. I would like to show some samples to show how the Krita’s community interact in development and put some samples in a future video for Inktober 2023 so if you are interested go, and test it.

  5. Tilt is important this time. IF you don’t have tilt, you can test it too , but results will not be the same.

  6. Nothing is written on stone. The goal is to give Krita EXPRESSIVE ink not only for Manga, but children book illustration and European style. So explore , invent, and share. We wil grow as community.

DOWNLOAD>INK_WIP_01.bundle - Google Drive

And remember I am able to do this type of thing because i love Krita and Krita funds me. so if you are helping in that field , thanks.
https://fund.krita.org/ :heart:

So now is your turn and enjoy. Remember you need Tilt and Speed is important here.
ink laptop

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Those brushes are great. I downloaded them but didn’t have the time to try all yet. So is tilt a must for most of them? If so, will there be a “tiltless” version of the preset? (for the needy artist without the tilt function?)

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Too bad I have no tilt on my “old” Huion Tablet.

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The brushes work quite well for me (without tilt). As I don’t have the tilt function on my xp-pen deco 01 tablet, I am not able to test it. As for now I look forward for the progress of the ink brushes.

Thank you so far Ramon!

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Ok, as not too much people seems to be intesrested and give detailed feedback. I will postpone this.

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Maybe more will give feedback soon. :person_shrugging:

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Ok, as not too much people seems to be intesrested and give detailed feedback. I will postpone this.

@RamonM I’m interested in doing testing but I don’t have tilt function on my tablet. The testing instructions mentioned that tilt was important.

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I drew this, sorry if it’s something small I wanted to do something quick.

This is my pressure curve, I use Krita 5.1.5 and my tablet is a Huion H320M with tilt support.

These were the brushes I used, the tilt works great and I like it.

The bic helped me a lot both to make a very simple sketch and to detail various parts.
The rest I used to define, outline and add texture.

I have yet to test all the others thoroughly, although there are certainly some that I wouldn’t know how to use :sweat_smile:

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Salvete! First, want to mention that ink is not my medium, nor digitally nor traditionally. But I do sketch, so ig i can say something after all. These brushes did some wonder to me because for last years i had trouble to sit and actually even doodle something, but today i spent several hours with these brushes till my back started to hurt from scoliosis. :melting_face:

Anyway, to the point:


XP-Pen Artist 16 Pro (Old gen; tilt is kinda snappy at some angles but is here)
Krita 5.1.5
Stabilization OFF

Resolution is pretty low, potato pc :skull_and_crossbones:

The brush names are written around the doodle that were drawn with it. Not all brushes present on image.
Also couldn’t find any brushes that aren’t “2023” prefix, but maybe that cuz i got more than thousand brushes overall,

  • “2023 bic pen” brush is gold, love, simple, amazing, cures depression.
  • “Dot Ink/Control/Control Pat” personally individually subjectively not sure how to use these, maybe for stripes, but i like my brushes more soft and textured;
  • “Ink Big Brush” true CLASSIC, i lack skill to appreciate it fully.
  • “Ink Brush (mypaint) Copy” a simple brush with built-in stabilizer, not for me but i knew plenty of people who were keeping their PaintToolSai settings on S-7(crazy people ik).
  • “Ink Brush (mypaint) v2” very good non-round brush.
  • “Ink Burn” it appears very sharply-pixilated to me? But when zoom out and low res screen blurs it looks pretty good.
  • “Ink Gaps Children BIG” at first wasn’t sure about it, but sardines-can-from-memory on the right upper corner speaks for themselves.
  • “Ink Medium Brush” similar to Big brush but more texture, love that.
  • “Pen Basic Multiply” domesticated bic pen, a must-have.
  • “Ink PEntel” nice, very stripey when low pressure.
  • “Ink PEntel copy” kinda too crispy personally, but ig someone else will like.
  • “Ink Pentel pocket” turns into surprisingly fun-to-draw-with lineart brush at low sizes.
  • “Ink R Big ROUND Wasted 2” love at first sight. Tho at max pressure it gets very basic-brush like sharp edges, but that’s not that big problemo, especially if your pen sensitivity isn’t sky high.
  • “Ink R Big ROUND Wasted ok” not really sure what’s the difference with previous one, maybe im delusional but it seems to have slightly softer texture.
  • “Ink Rake Big” i personally don’t like the lines, but that noise color effect is really cool.
  • “Ink Rake Dusty” again that pixelization, doesn’t really blends with the rest to me;
  • “Ink ROUGH BIG” unfortunately most likely due to high pressure sensitivity this brush and several like ones turn into max pitch black squares without much window to show texture. Pretty much entire “ROUGH BIG” family is like that. I wonder how they look to other users.
  • “Ink Tremble (mypaint)” very silly brush, especially great for shaking/trembling speech bubbles!
  • “Ink Tremble soft” i will use it in sketch stages to bring more natural/interesting lines when i have trouble to do so. Great for doodles, since details are kinda tricky to do.
  • “Ink Wasted 2” not sure if its my problem but its very off-set, i saw similar in photoshop but i never understood how anyone can draw comfortably with these. Otherwise great brush with slight texture.
  • “Ink 1 Damaged” very situational ig, but still fun brush with that sassy feel.
  • “Ink 1 Precision Copy comic” basic brush, got nothing to say about it tbh.
  • “Ink 1 Precision-Speed” speed doesnt seem to do much to me.
  • “Ink Lumacolor M” entire family is basic but smth feels special about it.
    I kinda got tired writing all of this

  • “Wasted penv2” again that off-set, would be nice to have copy of it without that.
  • aaaand rest are textures, i don’t really use these


These ink brushes should be pretty good in collab with Krita’s watercolor/halftones, haven’t tested that yet.

RamonM you are gold, i’d never knew that Krita’s engine capable of such great stuff without your work. The sketch brushes you made were just straight up revolutionary. Best wishes, CherryBerryCat.

I hope i didn’t sound bossy much lol, this all-nighter got me

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Just compared my brush speed setting to yalls

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