Painter 11 Mastering Brushes

Introduction
Introduction
Using the exercise files

1. Brush Engine Terminology
Defining categories and variants
Understanding dabs
Manipulating grain
Defining brush stroke methods and subcategories
Modifying stroke behavior with Expression
Cloning images

2. Two Methods of Control: The Brush Controls Palette vs. the Brush Creator
Understanding the anatomy of a variant
Modifying a brush with the Brush Creator
Modifying a brush with the Brush Control palette
Which is best?
Setting up a stroke testing palette
Manipulating pressure adjustments
Saving a brush variant

3. Bristle Media
Bristle Media in action
Painting with acrylics
Painting with gouache
Modifying resaturation and bleed with oils
Painting with Artists' Oils
Modifying the bearing expression with palette knives
Using RealBristle brushes
Painting with impasto
Using loaded brushes

4. Utility Media
Utility Media in action
Painting with airbrushes
Using an eraser as a mark-making tool
Using blenders
Using cloners
Distorting an image with the Distortion brush
Simulating artist brush styles with the Artist category
Making common photo adjustments with the Photo category
Using sponges and modifying captured dabs
Using FX brushes
Painting with pattern pens
Painting with the image hose

5. Dry Media
Dry Media in action
Drawing with pencils and colored pencils
Painting with chalk and using directional paper grain
Painting with pastels
Drawing with crayons

6. Ink Media
Ink Media in action
Configuring the Leaky Pen
Drawing with calligraphy pens
Using felt pens and markers
Exploring surface tension with liquid ink

7. Watercolor Media
Watercolor in action
Painting with digital watercolor brushes
Painting with the traditional watercolor brushes
Painting with the Tinting brush

8. An Approach to Expressive Brush Design
Selecting and modifying an existing variant
Adjusting the color behavior of the new variant
Fine tuning and naming the new variant

9. Customized Brush Library Organization
Creating a new category and copying variants into it
Packaging brushes for distribution
Pruning a library
Understanding the Master Brush Library and the User Brush Library

Conclusion
Goodbye