Hello friends, I am trying to recreate the painterly edges of this Photoshop artist (sample attached). She claims to be using the basic brush combined with “dual mode” that enables a bit of texture when her opacity drops. I would think this would be reproducible on Krita. I’ve tried the following so far:
On Basic 2:
Default, soft, and gaussian masks
“Softness” mode enabled on pen settings
Low Density under auto
Low Fade under auto
I can sort of recreate her style using the airbrush, but it takes about 8x longer unfortunately. I’ve also tried various mixer brushes to no avail.
“Dual mode” in Photoshop is probably the same as “Masked Brush” in Krita. You have the settings for the “second brush”, as we could call it, underneath all settings for the main brush. Note that it’s only possible for Pixel Engine brushes, which means no blending; you can either have a masked brush or a blending brush for now, unfortunately. For the Masked Brush, you’d wand to make the main brush textured and the second brush to handle the brush sizes, I guess. Though I wonder why wouldn’t you be able to just use the “Strength” parameter of the texture; but I don’t know, I’m not a brush making master.
Note that Krita’s Basic brush (especially since Krita has multiple of them) can behave in a different way than Photoshop Basic brush simply because no one tried to match them.
Airbrush would be a bad idea because she clearly uses a somewhat hard edge brush. She also uses either Flow, or Opacity, or both on the brush; make sure you use it effectively, too. She also erases with the same brush (which you can see on the right side of the painting, in the hair).
And I doubt she made it all with exactly one brush, because in a few places there is evidence of using “rake-like” brush (example in Krita: “Blender Rake”). See the right side of the painting, on the shoulder. Though it’s probably just a small part of the painting process; maybe even post-processing, adding the painterliness where she wanted to enhance it a bit.
She has speedpaintvideos of her paintings and discusses how she uses brushes in her youtube channel. Her art is so beautiful! She uses many basic and textured round brushes. Some look like they use dual brushes
Here’s two brushes I made that work like PS dual brushes. You can use these for making your own brushes
I recommend these brush packs too. They’ll help give a similar result
She uses many basic and textured round brushes. Some look like they use dual brushes
