Heyoo!!
Inspired by this thread here + a general curiosity and love of brush hoarding, I thought it would be fun to make a thread for sharing brush settings for whatever program you're currently using!
Here are some rules to keep things clear:
(updated 5/14/2021; Paid for resources are now allowed!)
Someone asked for these earlier so I made this !! I mainly use SAI 2, but there are lil guides in the first post about how SAI 1 vs SAI 2 brushes translate over c:
Shrank it down a lil bit to make it fit - to see the settings better view the full image! If anybody needs any of the textures/forms used for the brushes let me know and I can try to make them available for you!
These are for SAI 2, but may or may not work similarly for SAI 1?
New sketch brush!
And a different "painty" sketch brush/marker!
Aah I'm glad this thread exist! The SAI brush sharing thread is gone so I needed to archive these brushes somewhere
I mainly use SAI1 so here are some brushes I love:
Pencil and Mechanical pencil brush by BerolEagle - The most popular SAI brush on dA, it's really great!
Another pencil brush by ielleja - Looks more realistic and requires no additional texture
Various brushes by Sketcheree - A lot of handy brushes for many purposes. I'm using their Pen 2.0 brush as my brush for sketches! I renamed it to "G-pen" because it reminds me of similar brush in Medibang, haha.
Copic for SAI by LaraYokoshima - I can't confirm on how good it is about replicating copics but if you ever need a brush that have a really nice pen pressure transition and blend, this one is very good (Also available for SAI2)
Various brushes by Yuu San - A lot of lineart specific brushes, the Skritchy brush seems very useful in some shading styles
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Edit: Omg OP thanks for the brush setting comparison for SAI1 and SAI2, that was the main reason I couldn't move to SAI2 because the setting is really different lol
This is a really solid lineart brush for SAI 2 - it's good for those who have a hard time with lining, I've found? It's very smooth, very slow, but that can easily be switched by changing the stabilizer strength :>
Grymmjack's ballpoint pen brush for SAI1 is my new brush for sketching and B&W artworks now! While it does work in terms of replicating the ballpoint pen, I personally unchecked the "density" setting and it can create this nice effect that mimics traditional black ink pen as well, few examples with my own works ^^
This bleeds into how I do my lineart overall but I made a tweet about this a while back!
But Twitter image compression sucks so under the spoiler is the settings/examples :^) It's basically just a bad chisel brush but considering Medibang doesn't have anything like it it works for me. (Maybe it does now I haven't updated the program in forever oops)
This is fun!! Here's the few I use most (SAI2):
And the .BMPs for Spread, Paper, and Carpet 02 respectively (honestly I have no idea where I got them since it was YEARS ago, but I know they were free!):
Comin' back in here to show off a brush for Clip Studio I found and have been using a lot since I tweaked it!
Original brush is this one: https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1712564
I tweaked the settings a bit, under brush settings I changed the particle size to be affected by pen pressure, so the ends of each stroke would be softened :] It looks like this in use!
TBH this thread wouldn't be complete without mentioning the entire
Frenden Clip Studio Brush Pack
It contains like. 800+ brushes with a lot of variety and cool options for all kinds of uses, the whole pack itself is only $15 and I can safely say I use several brushes from the pack in pretty much every completed piece I do in clip studio!
There's too many to show examples of everything here but here's a few of my favorites! :3
