Rakurri Brush Set - Free Krita brushes 😁

Video showcase of some of the brushes:
Rakurri Brush Set V1.0

The Krita community is amazing! I want to give something back to this wonderful community! These are the brushes I use, and I hope that you might get some enjoyment from them :blush:
Most of them are brushes I made especially for stylized drawings, and most of them are based around pen tilt to do some cool things! Some of the brushes are slight tweaks on Krita’s default brushes since I made this brush pack to include every brush I need, including basics like an airbrush.

Everything you draw with my brushes will of course be yours! No need to credit me!
It is not the brushes that make the artwork, it’s the person using them! :blush:
In the download you will find a PDF named “Rakurri Brush Set V1.0”, this includes information like how to install the brush pack, and what to do if your tablet does not support pen tilt!

Download:
Gumroad Download

NEW VERSION 2 IS OUT NOW AND AVAILABLE HERE: Rakurri Brush Set V2 - Free Krita Brushes 😁

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cool, thanks for sharing :wink:

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I’ve downloaded and installed the bundle, they work (of course they work!) and you’ve made a fantastic range of brushes there. I’ve been having fun with the rainbow brush and adjusting various parameters to get different effects.
Thank you for these :slight_smile:

P.S. It’s admirable that you made a very distinctive structured set of icons for them too.

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Hearing that you like them makes me so happy! (And that they work, phew! :smile:)
Thanks a lot, Ahab! :blush:

And thanks mco! :blush:

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Only saw a video for now, but they look really cool! Especially those blending brushes and the one that changes from sketching to shading brush… Shame I don’t have tilt anymore, but maybe I could figure out how to make it work in a different way.

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That’s so great to see other people creating their resources :slight_smile: Especially with tilt support is it is one of my favorite features since I got new tablet.
Everything seems to work fine - I already picked 6 presets for some further testing :wink:

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Thank you! Happy you think so! :grin: And aw, I haven’t tried making the sketching-to-shading brush work for non-tilt, the other ones can be converted to work ok, but that one just turns into a normal pencil without tilt support :sweat_smile: Would indeed be nice to make it work somehow!

That makes me glad to hear! :grin: And thank you so much!

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I just watch the video and is amazed! I look forward to experimenting with them :D.

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Thank you so much! Hope you’ll like them! :grin:

So I just learned that my tablet comes with tilt support through this brush pack. It’s like im in a whole new world *o*

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Happy to hear so Malle Yeno! :grin: I really like tilt-supported brushes myself. I remember when I first found out about it back in my Photoshop days, I was so mind-blown! I wen’t for a long time not knowing my pen could do that! Since almost all the brushes I downloaded and tested did not have it on by default, and it wasn’t something I looked for! :sweat_smile:

Clip Studio not having good tilt-support (it didn’t nicely show the tilt in the brush outline) is the main reason I chose Krita over Clip when I looked for a new painting program to use after cancelling my Adobe subscription. Krita even had better tilt support than Photoshop! (Photoshoped showed a preview of the brush and the tilt, but the preview froze the moment your pen hit the screen, in Krita it shows the tilt even when drawing!) And I am so happy I discovered Krita, and that Krita has such great support for tilt-brushes! :smile:

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I just want to echo the sentiment. I downloaded the brushes a couple days ago and used them almost exclusively for the portrait i submitted today. I’m new to digital art and they are invaluable.

I love that there is a range of brushes but moreover they have tilt control too.

Thank you for the awesome tools.

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That makes me very happy to hear! :grin::grin:
It was a fantastic start of the day to read your nice comment, thank you :blush:
The portrait looks nice, keep up the great work!

Here is a new update for my brush set! “V1.1 The Blending and Pixel Art Update”

I am happy people are enjoying my brush set! :grin: I hope you will also enjoy this update for it!

Have a look in this video!

This update focuses on two things:

  • Adding more pixel art brushes, a lot of them are nice for concepting or iterating ideas fast! I think Krita has a lot of great potential when it comes to pixel art!
  • Adding more blending brushes, to blend and achieve great textures quickly! There are also blending brushes for pixel art! I think these are super unique! I haven’t seen anything similar in other programs!
  • There is also a thinner version of the grass brush, that feels more “realistic”. You can use both to achieve better contrast and make your lush landscapes more interesting!

V1.1 is intended to use alongside V1.0, like an addon, make sure to have both installed!

Download link V1.1:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bcAo3nedFQGmkfp1FbohXwwckVXEGlaf?usp=sharing

Download link V1.0:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tvjx5UhgeocRQjv_IritUzcptnwibrXi?usp=sharing

I will share with you my plans for 2.0 soon! :blush:

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My plans for Rakurri Brush Set V2.0

New Icons
Even though I liked having the simple low-contrast non-distracting icons, I find that the more brushes I make, the harder it gets to tell them apart from each other. In the new pack the icons will be more like Krita’s default brushes but keep the neutral background colour. I also wanted to try to make my brushes look fun and refreshing.

Here is how they look so far!

Explanation of icons in order of appearance:

Pencil - Brushes that are nice for sketching and general drawing.

Digital Pen - Brushes that act like digital tools, this will include my square brushes, round brushes and similar. There will be an icon next to the pen to show what kind of tip it has.

Chalk - Brushes that feels chalky or has a good amount of texture.

Ink - Brushes designed for inking and finishing sketches.

Palette Knife - Brushes that heavily rely on tilting to achieve the affects you want. Great for landscape painting or impressionistic styles.

Q-Tip - Blending brushes great for blending and smudging, or to achieve interesting textures. Might be more icons depending on the amount of blending brushes, like sponges or similar.

Red Paint Brush - Paint brushes that act “normal”.

Purple Paint Brush - Paint brushes that are wet and use the “Color Smudge Engine”.

Blue Paint Brush - Watercolour brushes that often have special properties to achieve a watercolour effects.

Foliage Wand - Brushes that imitate foliage and similar, including grass, fur and leaves.

Star Wand - Special brushes making nice glows, stars or similar. Things to spruce up the painting!

Liquid Wand - Brushes using the “Deform Engine”.

Spray Box - Brushes that use the “Spray Engine” or gives a spray-like effect.

Bottle - Brushes to fill in areas with colour or quickly concept.

Small icons on the icons
Icons will show what special properties the different brushes have. For instance, if the brush has tilt, or what kind of tip the “Digital Pen” brushes have. Like this:

New Names
I want names that act more like Krita’s defaults. This way I can sort them better with the new icons and be more creative with the names! One of the new upcoming brushes names is named “Silkeslør”, but it is easy to see what kind of brush it is because of the new naming scheme and icons!

Naming scheme before (Though this probably would have had to have a more descriptive name):

Rakurri Brush Silkeslør

Naming scheme after:

rak watercolour) Silkeslør

The 2.0 release is probably very far off. I want to spend a long time, many months, exploring, drawing, and improving the brushes I use. The vision for this pack is, and will probably always be brushes that I use, and that I feel allows me to draw in the styles I want to draw. And for that I have to draw a lot and make brushes as I go!
I also kinda want to wait for Krita 5.0 and the Resource Manager Rewrite. On the current versions on Windows I keep running into glitches, making the process slower.

Until then I might drop some previews and progress in this post!

You can test out a few of the ones I am planning here:

Rakurri Brush Set V2.0 Preview – Google Drive

(And yes, I know some of the names are ridiculous, but I have had brushes disappear when renaming before, so I want to play it safe! :sweat_smile:)

Thank you all for the support! I get much joy from seeing people enjoying my brushes!

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How have I not seen this sooner?! This is awesome congrats!

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Thank you so much Fullerhill! :grin: I appreciate your nice comment! :blush:

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I love these pixel art brushes! Thanks for sharing them :smiley:

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Happy to! Glad you like them, Malle! :blush:

thank you ,this is very nice

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