Inkscape Custom Brushes: How to Make and Use Brush Sets Tutorial

I'm Rick Johansen and this is iron Echo design I have to catch a flight but I really want to answer this question from Lynn hey love your videos I wanted to ask if it's possible to make custom brushes in inkscape like in procreate it's an excellent question you sort of can not exactly like procreate but rather than do the full live demonstration I can at least walk you through this and explain it these are different brushes I made just with the bezier pen tool and you can create artwork like this and the way it's set up quickly is first of all for scale this is the A4 template so go to file document properties and you'll see A4 is the first one there you can do any scale you want but just for now if you're gonna if you are gonna follow along this is just one little line normally just for this answer on how you can do it with inkscape go to the pencil tool it'll start on none so pencil tool mode is the first one smoothing it should be 35 something like that leave it there shape it'll say none go down all the way down to bend from clipboard what that lets you do is if you have an item any item right click on it and copy that item then go back to pencil and if you drag it out you've created your brush and you can do pretty interesting things with that so this was made with the bezier pen tool if you make it more compound let's say you have it out here pushing spacebar will let you create lots of different copies of it that's how I made this but before you can actually do the application with the pencil tool select everything you just created go up to path Union it made it one thing so you have this part right here right click copy go back to pencil and now you can draw your custom paintbrush pause Rick from the edit bait the number one thing I wanted to share with you when I set up this tutorial before I ran out of time was the direction matters what you draw with the pencil will always be based on left to right so this front part will be the beginning and all these streaks will be the end like that if I'm going this direction or if I go the other direction the streaks will be at the end if you create a brush vertically copy and try to draw it's not going to do what you want it to do it just makes a huge fat one all right I'll see you if you go to edit paths by node over here you'll see a little tiny diamond that lets you change the width on it and let me show you some more stuff here her question about procreate when I went and did some research it looked like this is just more fancy stuff you can do I'll show you the streaks if you want at the end you can add multiple colors doing this method so let's say you just had this normal shape right here again right click copy and you can draw your streak go back to edit path it's fine I shrunk it down a bit you can also go on pencil up to one to one scale should be 1.0 that keeps it honest so let's go down to the second one I added some streaks then I grouped the whole thing together copy that when you're pushing copy that's just putting it onto the clipboard and then I'll go back to pencil and you'll see the streaks and when I did the procreate research for her question it did look like there's ways you can just really draw a complicated brush strokes this is this is doable inkscape and then just for curiosity I added a third color copy pencil and does it work it works so pretty interesting there's one more thing I want to show you all of this way that inkscape is doing it it's actually just automatically come on man get in there using a path effect and this is the one it's using if I have that shape we used before I'll put that on the clipboard and I'll make a regular Circle just have the outline just the stroke only oh this might confuse people over here you can actually make the circle not completely closed I have that set up if you forget you have this it'll drive you crazy so when you're done just go back to full with this partial Circle I'm going to go to path object to path and then path path effects down here hit the Plus and go to I can't find it it always moves around if you can't find it just type it in pattern along path there it is pattern along path over here you'll see the pattern Source I want that link to path and clipboard click that and you'll see it it's going to forget the fill and strokes go back to fill and stroke and add the fill let's go to path object to path I want to reorient this and I'll put a gradient the radial gradient here take the stroke off make one side of the gradient a deep red and we'll do the interior the side a yellow I'll go to edit gradients here so I can control where it goes put it right there expand I'm out of time you get the picture if you want to see a specific part of this tutorial let me know in the comments and I'll when I get back I'll do the whole thing the last part for the artwork because I'm definitely out of time I'll just pull up the what I was actually doing to make it and you create the different brushes you want so one of them is this looks like a piece of bamboo copy and you can create your bamboo stocks kind of like this I made all sorts of different leaves experimenting and you just create your art and there's the Sun so sorry this is such a quick one but the answer is you can make custom brushes not exactly like procreate let's see how this one comes out thanks thank you

Channel: IronEcho Design

Views: 14,888

Keywords: brushes, Brush sets, custom, inkscape, Rick Johanson, IronEcho, Iron Echo Design, bamboo

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Length: 6min 13sec (373 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 19 2023