animated brush (5 into 1):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l6dqap6m2itm9jr/five-strokestry1.gih?dl=1
i think ill get there soon. it can be a challenge to remove the brush from the canvas but getting better.
you can get really cool blend mode effect when you add an emboss filter to the painted layer
Here I duplicated the emboss layer. one had multiply the other divide:
