Looks like Traditional ink and watercolor right? Amazing what you can do with photoshop. It’s all a matter of using the right brushes and dropping in a scan of watercolor paper. I actually turned the paper layer brown as well with Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation. If your paper layer has no color be sure to check the little check box that reads, “Colorize.”

Below are my photoshop brushes I use the most often. The last three brushes are the ones I used to create the illustration above. It took me a lot of downloading brushes, experimentation, and digging through Photoshop’s brushes to assemble this nifty little collection of brushes. So I hope you guys apreciate them.

They won’t make up for your lack of draftsmanship, but they do help improve the look of your drawings. The real secret is to draw loosely and not so rigidly or carefully.

1. Just save this file to your computer and then

2. Load the brushes into photoshop by clicking on the little triangle with the circle around it in the top right corner of your brushes pallette and

3. Click on “Load brushes” or “Replace brushes” depending on whether or not you want to keep the brushes you already have loaded as well.

Click here to download the file

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Video Tutorial “Painting Line Art”

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Collection of Advanced Photoshop Tutorials