Studio Oil Brushset Breakdown

Hello and welcome. My name is Anna Markowitz and I'm the creator of Digital Art Junkie and today I'm going to show you guys how to use the Studio Oil Brush Set. I got my start as an artist through oil painting and so I know a lot about this subject and when I was making these paint brushes I really wanted them to act like how real oil paints act and also to be used in the order of how I would construct a real oil painting. So these are kind of in order give or take a few brushes of how you should be using them with wet brushes first then medium dry brushes and then your dry and texture brushes on top. First order of business is inserting your paper textures. I prefer to do this at the very start but you can do this at any point in your painting. Come over to your actions panel and tap insert a file then go to the folder with the five paper textures that come with the pack and tap one. Now zoom in on that picture by pinching your fingers apart until it covers the entire canvas. Then you're going to come up to your layers panel tap the end for the light settings and choose which one works best for you. If you're in the middle of a piece I like to rotate between linear burn, color burn, multiply, or overlay and just see which one looks best with your canvas. But if you do choose multiply just duplicate that layer and bring it to the bottom like your color layers will be in the middle so you've got a little sandwich going on. But if you haven't started your painting yet I just like to start with linear burn. Don't be afraid to make adjustments to the brightness or tint of your paper texture and you can also mess around with the opacity. So let's get into it. The first brush we're going to take a look at is the underpainting brush. Just like when I'm really oil painting I start with a really thin layer of paint to just block out some of the basic shadows and shapes. So this is a really really wet brush and it's going to push and pull paint all around the canvas. The harder you press down on it the more pigment you're going to get onto the canvas and the lighter you touch the more paint thinner is going to be applied so it's going to be more diluted. When I say push and pull I mean that if you're working in the same layer the brush is going to physically pull the paints together and make for really easy blending. I will say even though I mainly use this brush to block out some of the early parts of my painting it's a really great option for blending throughout. So sometimes I'll use it like in the middle of the painting instead of just at the beginning just to get some easy blending. Now we're going to take a look at our liners starting with the wet liner. This is a very flowy brush that is pretty pressure sensitive and gives you a very painterly feel while still being super clean. And when I say like a painterly feel I'm talking about these little brush strokes that you can see on the outside of the outline. Things to keep in mind with this brush is that the harder you press down the more pigment and the larger the brush will be and as you lighten up pressure the line will get a little thinner and the color will start to be a little bit more diluted like you're adding a little bit of turpentine. Next we have the speckled liner. Don't press down too hard on this brush. If you press down too hard I mean it's up to you if this is a look you're going for but this is not really how I designed it. You're going to get these weird little streaks on the outside that look kind of like just too much of a pattern and it's supposed to be a little bit more abstract. So medium to light pressure and you'll start to really see that streaky texture that has little flecks of paint lining the outside. Next we have our abstract liner. I really wanted to include some abstract brushes in here for different kinds of oil painters. This brush has a really cool effect where it kind of like is spraying paint along one side of it in these interesting shapes and it's not it's a little bit pressure sensitive so the harder you press down the line will get a little bit thicker. The lighter you press down the thinner it will be. Next is the oil basics brush. I put this one near the top because in my opinion it's the most versatile brush in the pack. This brush works as a wet brush and then also as a texture brush. It's pressure sensitive so the harder you press down the more pigment you're going to have on the screen and the lighter you press down the more diluted it will be and the more texture will show through. This brush is super flowy so you can get a really clean look from it but you can also get a messier look by just slowing down your brush stroke. You can also see some different effects when you like run the brush along the canvas for a while versus using like short rough strokes so I definitely recommend playing around with this one. So if your underpainting is the first step in your process then the wet brushes are going to be the second. You can also just start off with these right off the bat if you want to. So the flat brush like the other wet brushes are pressure sensitive so the harder you press down the more pigment is going to be on the screen and the lighter you press down the more wet it's going to be the more paint thinner is going to be added to the canvas. The wetness of these brushes means that you can really push and pull paint all across the canvas and really mold the paint together to make for super beautiful and easy blending and to me that's what makes them so realistic. Look what happens when I add this yellow on top of these shades of blue green. It's actually pulling those shades of green in and blending in and mixing with that yellow to create a whole new color. The round brush works in the exact same way as the wet flat brush it's just a different shape for different parts of your canvas that you want to use and it's totally up to personal preference but same deal the harder you press down the more pigment you'll have the lighter you press down the more paint thinner will be added to the screen. A lighter touch also means a softer more blended look. Next is the wet bristle so this is going to have a much more streaky look than the other two but it's still going to have those same like glowy blending capabilities so again harder you press down more pigment you'll get lighter you press down the more translucent diluted and wet it will get. So the next set of brushes are going to be the medium dry brushes and these are going to have the most pigment out of any of the brushes in the pack. So starting with the medium dry flat brush these brushes are going to be a little bit flowy but as you lighten up pressure they're going to start to get drier and that's where you're going to start to see that texture. So the harder you press down the more wet it will be and the lighter you touch the drier it will get. So next is going to be the medium dry round brush. Now this brush has a lot more pigment than the other brushes and the only difference you're going to see with pressure is that the harder you press down the less texture it's going to have and as you lighten up your touch you're going to start to see those more streaky sides. You'll find that your experience with the medium dry bristle brush is very similar to the other ones with the exception of this one has a much more streaky appearance. Now the harder you press down on this brush the bigger it'll get and the less texture will shine through and the lighter you touch the more you're going to start to see that streakiness and it's also going to thin up the line. Okay so now we have our dry brushes and our accent brushes and these are what we're going to stack on top of our wet and medium dry brushes to really give that nice painterly texture. This is the dry round brush so this brush is going to start off round and then finish with a bit more streakiness than some of the other round brushes. Lightening up the pressure of your pencil is what's going to give you that nice painterly texture. So here I'm pressing down hard at the beginning of the line and lightening up pressure towards the end. Again I think these brushes work best when they are stacked on top of other more smooth pigments and that's when you really start to see that texture shine through. The next brush is our dry flat brush. This is a similar brush when you press down harder you'll get more pigment and less texture and as you lighten up that touch that's when you'll start to see that streakiness that rough dry painted look. Next is the dry bristle brush. This one works very similar to the medium dry bristle brush. When you press down hard it's going to make the line a lot bigger a lot more opaque and as you lighten up that touch that's when you're going to start to see that really really streaky texture shine through. The streaky round brush is one of our two accent brushes and this is going to give you that classic paint stroke look. When using this brush the harder you press down the larger the line is going to be but it's still going to maintain that streakiness but as you press down lightly you'll get a more tapered look with some more streakiness showing through. Next is the streaked accent brush. This is just a smaller accent brush that I like to use for detail work and I find that it works best in quick short strokes. So our next little section is our glazes. So the way these work is by creating a really thin and translucent layer of color where you're still going to be able to see what is underneath it. So essentially like tinting your painting. These brushes are meant to be used with a very light touch so the lighter you touch the more translucent it will be and the harder you press down the more opaque it'll be but there's going to be a little bit less control. So I definitely recommend a light touch just to create a really even colored look. So the medium glaze is going to have a little bit more pigment and a little bit more opacity but it's going to work essentially in the same way so use a light touch. You can also layer these on top of each other to get more color and more pigment. Lastly is the rough glaze. Now this is a rounder brush so I like to do it in circular motions and it's also better for detail work because it's a little bit smaller but again use a light touch throughout and you will get that tint over work that already exists. Great for shadows, great for highlights. Next up is our abstract brushes. Starting with the abstract one brush these are going to have some really cool looks to them. Really streaky, really interesting. So the harder you press down on these brushes the more opaque they'll be and a little bit less pattern will show through but as you press down lighter the line will be thinner and it'll be a little bit more diluted in color. Now the abstract 2 brush I'm obsessed with it has like such interesting line work to it and I think it can make for a really cool background or you know it could serve a lot of purposes but again it's pressure sensitive. The harder you press down the bigger the brush will be and the more opaque a lighter touch will be a thinner line and a little bit more diluted in color. Now the abstract 3 brush is like a bunch of little paint drops put together. The harder you press down the bigger the line is going to be and the more opaque it will be and as you lighten up pressure that line will get a little thinner and also a little bit more diluted in color. I think this brush is really great for things where you really want a lot of texture so and this particular texture I think is well suited to things like grass or fur or rain you know. Our next category is the canvas texture brushes. Now these are particularly useful if you are not using the paper textures that come with the pack. Starting with the canvas texture 1 you'll notice that the harder you press down the less texture there is like I'm pressing down really hard here no texture at all but as I lighten up at the end is where you start to see that canvas texture show through. So try to find like a medium light to light touch to get you that texture to shine through. Now canvas texture 2 is different with canvas texture 2 you can press down as hard as you want you're still going to see the texture shine through. However a lighter touch will make the lines more translucent. The canvas texture 3 brush is pretty translucent to begin with and I just think it has a lovely texture and it's really really buildable like the more you layer it on top of itself the more pigmented and darker it will get. Here's a closer view of what that texture looks like. Now the canvas texture 4 brush can be used as a liner or as a texture brush and it just has like kind of like a painterly really rough messy look to it. Lightening up the pressure on this brush is going to give you a thinner and more translucent line and pressing down harder will give you a thicker and more opaque line. Now the paint thinner brush is a must-have. This is like a non-brush brush and it's mainly used just for blending and pushing and pulling colors together. For example let's say you had a few colors like this that were placed on your screen and you wanted to blend these together in a painterly effect. You're going to take that brush and you're just going to run your brush in circles back and forth however you want to get the desired effect and as you can see it's just going to merge the colors together. It's not going to fully blend them like your smudge tool but it's going to bleed them together just enough to look painted. Next we got our grainy blended brush. Start by moving your brush in really light circles using a very light touch and gradually increase pressure based on how much pigment you want to add. So the harder you press down the more pigment is going to be added and you're just going to get this soft bled cream look. All right last up is our texture brushes starting with our blotch texture. This one makes for a really interesting background. The harder you press down the more opaque the color is going to be and also the bigger the little blotches will be and the lighter you press down the more translucent and the smaller they will be. Finally we have the diluted splatter brush. This is one of my favorites. It's like my favorite little detail to add and this one I will say does not work like a stamp. You have to have some sort of movement. If you just tap it on the screen nothing's going to happen. So move your brush back and forth. The harder you press down the more translucent the dots are going to be and the bigger they're going to be. Thank you so much for watching and thank you so much for your order. You are amazing. I hope you love these brushes. 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