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These brushes are spontaneous and stylized and sure to help you generate new and unexpected visual ideas as you paint.

(This set was previously available exclusively to people who left voicemail on my ArtCast Listener Line.)

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Subscribe to the ChrisOatley.com Digital Painting Tips Newsletter and get access to LOTS of FREE PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES designed by Chris Oatley.

You can download the brushes by subscribing to my Digital Painting Tips Newsletter via the Green Box at the top of the right sidebar on this site.

The ‘Brush Tips’ Series: Short video tutorials that demonstrate digital painting tips and tricks that can save you time, increase your efficiency and support a smoother, more intuitive workflow.

This episode addresses a frequently asked question: How do I make my cool stylized texture brushes in Photoshop? It’s easy and creating your own brushes is a great way to find inspiration, new ideas and approaches to digital painting that you’ve never thought of before.

Subscribe to the ChrisOatley.com Digital Painting Tips Newsletter and get access to LOTS of FREE PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES designed by Chris Oatley.

You can download the brushes by subscribing to my Digital Painting Tips Newsletter via the Green Box at the top of the right sidebar on this site.

I’ve decided to make my ‘Oatley Essentials’ set available for download. This set consists of 32 brushes – mostly ones that I made.  There are a few that came from other places (friends, free PS resource sites etc…).

BEFORE DOWNLOADING :: VERY IMPORTANT ::

I use tool presets to manage my brushes instead of the brush palette so make sure you place the file (OatleyEssentialBrushes_ToolPresets_Fall2008.tpl) in the ‘Tools’ folder inside of the ‘Presets’ folder inside of your ‘Photoshop’ folder.

Here is a brief overview of the collection:

The first brush in the list is my new favorite brush “Daisuke_Brush_Wild_83.”  This one is named after one of my favorite artists Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi.  You can check his work out here to 1.) be incredibly inspired and 2.) realize why my brush was named after him.

The next brush in the list, “Hard_Mask_100,” is the brush that I use for creating crisp masks when I am doing VisDev work for an art director and I know that there will be a need to make changes quickly and a need to present many different versions of a design.

The next three “Tapr” brushes are the ones that I use for most of my painting.  They are simple and built for optimal speed.

Next are a couple of ‘Sketch Pens’ that I got from my friend, Ryan.  They are great for when you need to draw or sketch in Photoshop.

The ‘Square Angle Brush’ set is for use with the Wacom 6D Art Pen.  These sharp, rectangular brushes change direction as you rotate the stylus.  They are great for getting a cool, stylized look to your paintings.  They will work with a standard stylus, but you will have to change one thing.  If you do not have the 6D Art Pen, you can change the ‘Rotation’ setting to ‘Direction’ inside of the Brush Editor in Photoshop.  This will make the angle of the brush change in relation to the direction of your brush stroke as opposed to having the angle of the brush change in relation to the rotation of the stylus tip.

The ‘Airbrush’ set is self-explanatory.

‘AluKlecks’ is a cool texture brush that came from Goro Fujita.  I have mentioned him on this site a couple of times.  He’s awesome.  Check out his blog.

Octoprimus’ is one of the first brushes I ever made.  It is good for achieving a brushy look.  It is named after my character ‘Octoprimus’ because I built this brush while I was designing him.

Lastly, there are some more ‘Daisuke’ brushes that I made, five more texture brushes that I did not make (I can no longer remember who did) and one brush that is a customized version of one by the company WACOM Technologies.  (I believe that they are giving more of these brushes away for free on their website.)

…and thanks for reading, watching, listening, looking and for all of your comments and encouragement.

Go well.

Subscribe to the ChrisOatley.com Digital Painting Tips Newsletter and get access to LOTS of FREE PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES designed by Chris Oatley.

You can download the brushes by subscribing to my Digital Painting Tips Newsletter via the Green Box at the top of the right sidebar on this site.

As some of you know, I’ve been working on an illustration of Wolverine Vs. The Hulk.  I realized yesterday that it was time to make a set of ‘Splatter’ brushes for Photoshop.

Previously, I just painted splatters by hand or I used some of the other free splatter brushes that I found online.

However, I have not been able to find that ‘comic-book-blood-splatter-look’ for which there are many applications.

So subscribe to my newsletter now and get this set of 14 Splatter Brushes instantly for FREE!