Best Brushes
There's this tendency among more experienced artists online to scoff at beginners asking them about the tools they use and tell them that they should not care about tools but focus on the art instead. This is of course true.. to an extent- no single tool makes anyone a great artist but they do help! Would you like to change a car tire using only a spoon? Me neither, so below I'm listing some of the best brush resources I've found during my career. I've never been big on creating brushes myself but I'm really picky about the ones I use so if you need some new tools in your arsenal the packs below are worth checking out.
I swear I have never met a concept artist who doesn't use at least some of Jaime's legendary set of juicy brushes. If you download just one set, make it this one.
Jama is the friendly neighborhood concept artist who is constantly blowing people's minds left and right with new techniques and tutorials. In addition to his insights I also find his traditional media brushes to be really useful, especially for sketching.
Shaddy's set is an oldie but a goodie full of useful brushes. It's also a more minimalist set in numbers so might be useful if you tend to get overwhelmed with hundreds of brushes in your collection.
Antoine Colligonon Mixerbrush presets
I can't figure out the voodoo behind Photoshop's mixerbrush to save my life so that's where Antoine's set comes in. This one is a paid set but totally worth it to me for providing good presets whenever I need to use the mixerbrush. These tend to be particularly useful when you need to make 3d look more painterly.
Greg's traditional media brushes are some of the best I've found- especially when it comes to mimicking oilpaints in Photoshop. Make sure to check his paid sets as well if you are into the oilpainting-look.
You should be good to go with the great sets listed above but if you want to try the curated collection of brushes I use every day in my work you can download the set here. Most of these brushes I've found in different sets over the years but kept coming back to- So eventually I decided to organize them for easy use.
I'm sure I have missed a ton of awesome brush sets but these should be enough to get you going!
Have a great week!
Juhani