Mine is easily the Pencil-6 Quick Shade mostly because it’s the one that seems to be most like a real graphite or charcoal pencil to me.
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That’s also one of my most used brushes. I’ve also been lately using brushes like Basic- 5 Size Opacity and the Basic 3- Flow, they’re really simple and get the job done.
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That is my go-to brush as well.
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charcoal rock soft
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That’s a good one!
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Most of my drawing time is spent sketching and working on line-based roughs, so my most used brush is a pencil brush. I’m not using a standard preset, however, but a slightly tweaked h) Charcoal Pencil Large.
The main modification is making the size pressure sensitive, which results in a very flexible brush that can be used for a coarse rough (thick lines), light and thin construction lines, as well as the regular silhouette lines, after reducing the size a bit. This lets me use a single brush for the whole thumbnail to rough process. (I still need an eraser or undo, because otherwise it’s really slow to erase a textured brush).
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Nice! I have a modified version of that brush as well in my favorites.
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I had been trying to create a “brushy” brush forever and only recently discovered there was already one that did exactly what I was looking for:
f) Speedpainting Blocking Shape Textured
Absolutely love this brush at a bunch of different sizes–just enough randomness to give variety but still feels completely under control.
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Rakurri Roughchalk almost exclusively. I’m wanting to try something else though.
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Nice.
I Love the chalk/pastel/pencil type brushes.
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Oh, Basic 5 Opacity is nice!
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Oh nice. I’ve been using Block Brush Glazing from the Deevad bundle, which is very similar. My other main is Wet Modeling, also from the Deevad bundle.
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I don’t have one, but a few I use a lot, including:
For Painting:
- Rakurri Liquidbristle
- Rakurri Konseptpastell
- Rakurri Charred
- Deevad Glazing Textured
- Bristles Multistroke Texture (Concept Brushes)
For Drawing:
- Concept MarkerRoundInk
- Charcoal Pencil Medium
- Muses 06 04 Texture 04 Rock Flat
Others:
- Airbrush Real Grain
- Concept PressInk Craggy
- InkT Texture Cross Hatching
- Rakurri Smoothgrit & Avtrykk Softer (Blender/Smudge)
I do often make modifications to the brushes though, like adding hue variation. Plus I have some brushes I put together myself I use quite often.
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I’m going to have to check out that bundle–thanks for the recommendation!
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For me Basic 5 and Blender Smear.
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Mine is a basic circle brush [ i think its from deevads pencil without the texture and scatter or the basic 5 + some modification]
I call SoftFlow . Basically Basic 5, with slight softness pressure, Flow pressure, and S Curve taper but doesn’t come to a point.
I basically use this from sketching, lines, to shading and sometimes blending [even if its not a blender]
My previous fav is Dirty Blocker.
Nowadays for line its one of my Leaky Brushes.
Like I have a lot of bundles but most of the time I only use a handful.
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It gotta be the RGBA Thickpaint 02 with lowered contrast of the lightness map. It has a very nice and subtle gouache look to it.
Being a severe brush hoarder tho it changes every week :^D
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I’ve been recently falling in love again with pen and markers art.
The “Mypaint markers” and @RamonM ink bundle (especially the “flats” and “fudepen”) have been a constant on selection.
A few extra three custom brushes i use as markers
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i’d really like to see which brushes you use for rendering and blending!
I always rely on David’s excellent brush pack 
As to which brush in particular, it depends on what part of the painting it is. Please watch the video in the blog, it gives ideas when to use each brush.
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