All posts in Custom Brushes

In this video Daarken challenges you to create a sketch or a painting using only one brush. Don’t pick a typical brush like the round or chalk brush, pick something that you would never consider doing an entire painting with. The example used in this video is the chain brush. Post your painting here! Creative…

In this video Daarken will show you how to use the custom rain brush that was created in the last tutorial to add some rain to an existing painting.

In this tutorial Daarken goes over one way to create a custom rain brush. Many times you will want to avoid using too many custom brushes because they tend to be very obvious if not used correctly, so make sure not to overdo anything when using custom brushes.

Have you ever wanted to rearrange your brushes or delete multiple brushes at one time? Daarken shows you how to manage your brushes with the preset manager.

Creating custom brushes in Photoshop is easy and sometimes necessary in order to keep up with your freelance schedule. That being said, it is also important to realize that the brush does not make the artist and custom brushes are not required in order to make you a professional artist. Most of Daarken’s paintings are…