These new brushes may or may not be customized for a particular software, that is, they may be downloaded and used on only one or a range of applications depending on the file type.įor the sake of this piece, we would be considering brushes that work with one of the most versatile art applications Firealpaca (although a couple of them are compatible with other applications). However, new brushes can be created and added to the palette. One basic accessory is the brush palette.Īll digital applications are built with their own brush preset and engine which makes their brush tools peculiar to them. These applications come with accessories to aid drawing, painting, and modeling just like the traditional art methods. A brush that creates hatching and cross-hatching patterns.With the invention of digital illustration applications, being an artist has become a lot easier.Whatever the case, it's not 'correct' but the patterns it makes are kind of cool, so I kept it. There is also sort of an option for a 4×4 matrix, but I either only half-finished it or messed up the code and never fixed it. A brush that uses an 8×8 dither matrix.

Same as dot2.bs, but compensates for the short distance between when you put your pen down and when FireAlpaca draws with a BrushScript brush.A brush that aims to make drawing aliased art with pen pressure slightly nicer by changing the pen size in a stepped fashion for when it is between 1-4px.Same as pix.bs, but compensates for the short distance between when you put your pen down and when FireAlpaca draws with a BrushScript brush.A standard, square pixel brush that should rarely give you jaggies.

Note that, contrary to expectation, these may not be very useful for creating pixel art, as FireAlpaca seems to not execute BrushScript brushes the moment that you click or press your pen to the tablet.

These are a few different brushes that I use for drawing aliased art in FireAlpaca.

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