Pencil like brush in photoshop?

EarthQuake

I remmeber seeing someone post settings for brust texture stuff in photoshop to emulate that of hand drawn pencil. Anyone know what im talking about?

Zcubed

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Snowfly said...

Here ya go kp.

brush tip shape
-diameter 5 px
-hardness 100%
-spacing 1%

shape dynamics
-size jitter control: pen pressure

texture
use whatever texture scaled down to 5%
-check 'texture each tip', mode: overlay
-depth 50%
-minimum depth 70%
-depth jitter 15%, control: pen pressure

other dynamics
-control: pen pressure

check 'Noise'
uncheck 'Smoothing'

I use the pencil tool at 100% opacity.

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oXYnary

Under other dynamics
-control: pen pressure is that for opacity, jitter, or both?

Snowfly

What do you mean "opacity, jitter, or both?"

Anyway using the pencil tool, the only option I can set is Opacity Jitter, and that's set to 0% and "Pen Pressure".

oXYnary

Oh, It didnt list using pencil mode, I figured you meant using the brush to emulate a true pencil because usually the pencil mode is too harsh.

MoP

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Oh, It didnt list using pencil mode

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Read more carefully in future. It does, in fact, list that.

I've got a fairly decent 2B pencil facsimile in Photoshop using the Brush tool, set to Multiply mode, using textured tips, pressure = opacity, and a bit of scattering/tip size jitter. Works pretty well for me, nice and smooth too.

oXYnary

Ok now I see it at the end of his message versus the beggining. Can you blame me for missing that portion since I was following the order? AND I might add it quotes "I use the pencil tool at 100% opacity" You know what I thought me meant? The pencil tool he just created (meaning thats its name) given again where it is in the steps.

So yea, I did read it right, just not in the same manner.

MoP

Fair enough, I can see where the confusion might arise.

cochtl

can someone save out brush or take a screen grab of the settings used exactly, because this sounds pretty neat (ive never tried using pshop to simulate pencils but now it seems like its worth a try)

-i'm not lazy-

poopinmymouth

This is the one I use, but I use a dual brush instead of a texture.

http://www.poopinmymouth.com/net/pcount/pencil_brush.abr

zweek

Hey Poop,

could you post your most commonly used 3dsmax scripts and UI setup (hotkeys, ui config, etc)

also most common brushes in PS?

or you may have already done this?

Thanks, great tuts btw.

Snowfly

Cool brush poop! Feels waxier than mine, and it's fast too. The only shortcoming is you can't scale it up too much without losing the pencil look.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/chrisdejoya/Diesel.jpg

Now someone needs to make a smudge brush with like a fingerprint texture in it, hehe.

poopinmymouth

Yeah I used the dual brush for the speed. I could make one that starts larger and scales better, I'll put that on my lunchtime to-do list. 8-)

Zweek: Be looking for my latest tutorial series on my website. I'm about to upload the head modeling portion, and the PDF that comes with it outlines all the tools I use for modeling. I'll provide the PDF for seperate download as well.

zweek

ahh perfect, thanks once again poop. Id poop in your mouth anytime!