WDL Premium: Water Color Dry Brushes

Posted by nathan_brown on Jul 28, 2009 | 7 Comments

I set out to create a water color brush for this set, and I wanted to do something that I haven’t seen in a water color Photoshop brush, but I wanted it to be useful at the same time. As I was playing with the various brushes, I tried a 1″ sponge brush to see what type of effect I could get. The sponge brush soaked the water and paint very quickly, giving the stroke sort of a dry brush effect. I could vary the stroke depending upon how long I waited from loading the paint to putting the brush to paper.

I think this set is very useful for adding heavy water color strokes to backgrounds. The strokes have a very nice transparent nature, and can be overlaid one on top of the other for a really nice effect. I hope you enjoy this set, and have as much fun using them as I did creating them!

Water Color Dry Brushes

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Nathan Brown is a graphic designer living in Austin, Texas. You can see more of his work at his blog, Room 122.

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Zach Krasner
July 28, 2009
Cool
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Andrew
July 28, 2009
Awesome thanks
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tutorialslounge
July 29, 2009
really nice.
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Su Hall
July 29, 2009
Great! Thank you! This adds yet another layer of texture. I have to go give them a whirl. LOL

Su
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Henry
July 29, 2009
I’m glad you all like the brushes. Nathan did an amazing job in creating them.
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