Sylvania Brushes

When I started working on my space fantasy comic Sylvania, I knew I wanted it to have a soft, organic, home-spun feel to it. I decided to draw the line art in pencil, and then crafted several custom Photoshop brushes to help keep that warmth throughout the digital coloring process.

This pack includes the following new brushes:

1. Bark texture - which I also use for flowing water, wood floors, dirt paths, and basically any area that I want to quickly and easily give some texture and motion. I love this brush!!!

2. Leaf texture - also very handy for filling in large flat areas quickly while still making it look like I spent ages scribbling by hand!

3. Magic detail - this is a rougher, grittier variation of my classic Skritchy Line brush. It's perfect for creating fine, delicate lines that don't look too artificially clean alongside my pencils. I also use it for sketching and detailing a lot of my fully-digital work for the same reason. HOT TIP: I like to work with this brush at about 90% opacity and 55% flow, and I use the Outer Glow layer effect to make it extra magical.

4. Borders - basically the magic brush with the pressure sensitivity turned off, this is what I use to make consistent panel borders that match the artwork. HOT TIP: hold down shift while drawing with the brush to make perfectly vertical or horizontal lines! 

5. STARS 1&2 - Stars!!! for all your space exploration needs. HOT TIP: to make your stars glow nice and soft, duplicate the layer, use a gaussian blur on the copy, then mess with opacity and layer blending modes until it looks how you want. I love Color Dodge but sometimes Linear Dodge works better!

This pack also includes the Skritchy Line, Pencil Line, and Spongy Shading brushes from my classic Magical Brushes pack. I still use them in pretty much everything I make, including Sylvania. I use Skritchy Line for flatting, and the other two for shading and cleaning up my line art.

I hope these brushes help you create some magic of your own!