this might be a total noob question but as far as I know, Krita cannot properly import Photoshop brushes (.abr). While the shape itself can be imported, other settings such as pressure/opacity/“consistency” (I am making these names up, I don’t know how these are actually called) are not imported.
I am very new to all of this digital painting but I recently discovered some Brushes by the wonderful David Revoy and I was blown away on how big the differences are, if different brushes are used. I know David is lurking in here form time to time, so: Thank you very much David!
My main goal right now is to get Dave Greco’s Brushes imported somehow, but not only the shape. I would really love to try out “his” style, with the insane amount of colour blending and I’d love to do so with his brushes. I got them as .abr, but I am too inexperienced to get them into Krita… Does anyone have them already? I searched online, but didn’t find anything. Dave is pretty big and known, so I cannot believe that there wasn’t already someone who imported his brushes? If not, would anyone be up to help me out?
What you’ve discovered is true: you can import Photoshop brush tips but that’s about it. PS brushes are not compatible with Krita – the brush engines are not the same. If you’re set on using the brushtips from a PS set, then it will be worth your while to learn how Krita’s brush engines work. You may be able to emulate the set you’re looking at.
There is a new series of instructional videos on brushes in Krita’s YouTube channel. Here’s link to part 1.
Another source of info for you is the search function in this forum. There are tons of posts from people who bring PS brushtips into Krita.
Hello, welcome to join us here in what I think is a wonderful forum!
You should be aware of one thing. The brushes of an artist like Picasso, van Gogh, or Dave Greco, do not make you paint like Picasso, van Gogh, or Dave Greco, it is more important to learn how these artists used their brushes and tools to achieve their goals and bring their ideas to the canvas.
But it definitely helps to have good tools to do good work.
So I’d like to finish by suggesting what I think are a few good sets:
@Odzuki’s “Photoshop common brush transfer, with original brush”, a set with fantastic brushes, well-thought-out and matured, now with version 3.2. I link the post with the download link, but I recommend you to read through the whole topic, because there Odzuki presents the brushes in individual posts, with pictures, setting hints and some even videos:
a small but nice set by @emilm, “Memileo Brushes”, you can find this, I think, too little noticed set, via this topic, the download link is in the first post:
another treasure is “URAVERAGEBOI’s Bundle”, by, the name suggests it, @URAVERAGEBOI, it is presented in this topic, including download link:
an extensive universal set by “WayneParker” which I introduced just before the end of this extensive post among many other sets, is what I want to end the introductions with “WayneParker - Artmessiah’s Krita Presets” and which would have been “lost” there in the mass of presentations, had @Reitei17 not presented it again in this topic, after which the downloads for it exploded.
You can download it from here, it is despite its “quirks” (it was created at the time of Krita 2.8, early 2016) a well sorted selection of even today great brushes.
Michelist
Add/Edit: Download link renewed (Wayne Parker / Artmessiah 1228 downloads so far! Thank you for downloading! )
I am aware of that, I am also actually not trying to 1:1 copy any artists style, but I am curious about how the brushes he designed are working with the way of blending he does a lot. I am surely experimenting with all sort of brushes, techniques and so on.
