Happy Inktober!
Do your best, do your worst, do whatever drives your creativity. And we have brushes for any artistic stuff you do this fall.
Ink Mania Brushes
Every month will feel like Inktober, thanks to the Ink Mania. We’ve designed this set to stand out with versatility and creative glory. It’s ideal for ink art and any project where the ink stroke takes center stage.
There are 52 brushes — ink pens, ink brushes, wet ink, and ink stamps — all crafted with exceptional detail and authenticity. Whether creating fluid lines, smooth transitions, or capturing natural movement, these brushes are perfect for working within a minimalist palette. Like, you know, all eyes on ink, not something else.
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Ink brushes are designed to mimic the effects of ink, commonly used for creating fluid, expressive lines and washes in artwork.
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Ink brushes are best suited for creating calligraphy, illustrations, and paintings that require fluid yet dynamic strokes or soft transitions, often in styles that resemble traditional ink or watercolor art.
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Ink wash painting, also known as Shui Mo Hua in Chinese, is a traditional East Asian art form that uses varying shades of ink to create landscapes, portraits, and abstract designs.
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Traditional ink painting tools include a soft brush, inkstone, ink stick, and Xuan paper, while digital versions use specialized ink brush sets in software like Procreate or Photoshop to replicate these effects.
Essential Liner Brushes
A fine liner is the inky hero of the day when it's Inktober. We never know if you use it for patterns, shapes, doodles, or more intricate art. But what we do know is that you'll be fully equipped with ink supplies this fall.
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Fine liners are precision pens used primarily for drawing, sketching, and writing. They have a fine, narrow nib that produces consistent, clean lines, making them ideal for detailed work. Nib sizes can vary from brand to brand.
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They mimic the precise, clean lines produced by fine liner pens. You can find regular fine liner strokes or pattern brushes.
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Fine liners are used in drawing for a variety of purposes, primarily due to their precision and ability to create clean, consistent lines. E.g., detail work, outlining, line art, hatching, cross-hatching, technical drawing, illustration, and hand lettering.
Let Uni PIN, Pigma Micron, or Winsor & Newton rule the paper. For your artboard, however, use an advanced brush set with 18 pattern line brushes, 8 stipple brushes, and 18 pattern line brushes. Yes, a single fine liner can create a masterpiece, but why limit yourself when you can have an entire toolbox?
Manga and Anime Brushes
It’s like ink art month, but for comics! The bundle has everything you need: authentic screentones, frames, and inkers. It includes brushes that replicate the most popular comic and manga tools: liner, inker, brush pen, G-pen, pencil, and marker. Plus, there are outline and filled bubbles for speech, thoughts, sound effects.
Have you ever thought of manga and comics as pieces of ink art? Jokes aside, you can go beyond the usual sketches, doodles, and modern art, and celebrate Inktober with some serious visual storytelling. Think of something worthy of Attack on Titan, Dororo, The Walking Dead, or Maus.
The set includes everything you need, from authentic screentones to frames and inkers. There are brushes that replicate the most popular tools used for comic and manga art: liner, inker, brush pen, G-pen, graphite pencil, and marker. Plus, there are outline and filled bubbles for speech, thoughts, sound effects, and author's comments. Like it's the ink art month, but comic art month!
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Manga brushes are used to create manga-style artwork. Manga, a popular form of comic book or graphic novel originating from Japan, has a distinct artistic style, and these brushes are tailored to emulate that specific look in digital art software.
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Actually, manga and anime brushes are tailored for different aspects of Japanese art. Manga brushes typically include a range of inking tools with different line weights for creating clean, precise lines and screen tones for shading and texture. Anime brushes are geared more towards color work and animation. These brushes might include a variety of painting and coloring tools.
However, manga and anime share many skills and techniques, so artists might adapt the tools to their needs accordingly.
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Liner and inker brushes are used primarily in illustration, comic book art, and graphic novels, including manga and anime.
Liner brushes, or liners, often have a thin, sharp tip, allowing for detailed line work. This is why they're commonly used to lay down the initial structure of their artwork like character outlines, architectural details, or any part of a scene where accuracy and detail are crucial.
Inker brushes, or inkers, go over pencil sketches, providing the clean, bold lines typical of manga/anime illustration. They are also used to add shading and textural details.
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Screen-tone brushes replicate the effect of traditional screen tones, which are sheets of film with patterns of dots, lines, or other textures used in comic art to create shading, depth, and texture without the use of color. Screen tones are a traditional tool employed by mangakas, partly identical to halftone brushes available in most design apps.