Brushing Up With Photoshop Brushes

Photoshop brushes are Photoshop applications that help create a realistic, brush-like touch to an image, making it appear as though a real paintbrush stroke across the page.  Perhaps artists who are able to truly produce masterpieces with paint and brush might not be too fond of this application for obvious reasons, and may even dislike it in varying degrees.  But for the frustrated and amateur artist (like me), I’m sure this application is a great help in making technologically refined works of art.  Just hearing the word “brushes” already makes me want to release the inner playful child inside of me.  My fingers want to click and move all over the screen and just make a wonderful, colorful, orderly mess.

Of course, the canvas on screen could never really measure up to the beauty and essence of the real kind of canvas; and no matter how much technology would refine and improve Photoshop brushes in the future, and no matter how terribly interesting and fun it could be to use it to turn possibilities into realities, I don’t believe the canvas on screen could ever replace the real canvas that is made of heavy, closely woven hemp, flax or cotton material and set up on wooden pedestals.  With real canvas one is compelled to really think about one’s artistic approach thoroughly and carefully, marking out the outlines and strategically mapping out where he wants certain images to be.  One must have patience in letting the first layer of paint dry before he can add the next (at least, it helps you develop that really very important yet not so easily acquired virtue called patience).

This is not to say that working on the canvas on screen doesn’t require thoughtfulness or careful planning.  Photoshop brushes also demand much concentration and mastery over the use of its instructions, tools, and techniques.  Its advantages are obvious and abundant: quick and easy editing by just one or two clicks, automatically refined brushes of various sizes, access to a great variety of painting styles, colors, shades, and gradients.  Those who like the painted text a lot but don’t possess that gifted, steady hand to actually paint it out with a real brush, this application provides many different styles of texts that won’t ever appear sloppy or wavy.  You can also draw up all kinds of patterns (flowers, plants, trees, snowflakes, coffee stuff, ribbons, food, ornaments, fireworks, shapes, polka dots, textures, animals, humans, etc.) to decorate your art piece; this application is really suitable for producing artwork with themes related to the seasons and other occasions.  Plus, you won’t ever have to get your hands messy with all kinds of liquid and paint.

Painting on the real kind of canvas will and should never lose its appeal and necessity.  The beauty of any kind of painting on a real canvas will always be unlike any other kind of art.  With whatever flaws it may acquire, it is still uniquely lovely in itself because it was worked on with much patience and care by human hands that delight in moving, stroking, and mixing colors over that blank piece of canvas.  With Photoshop brushes, the principles in painting are still pretty much the same; they have just been translated and reformatted into technological language, which is why it requires only some clicking here and there.  Regardless of the medium you choose to paint with (cloth canvas or screen), the really important aspect of the painting is still the idea, the picture inside your head and how you want it to come out.  What is it that you see inside your imagination?  How do you want others to see it?  What kind of response do you want to elicit from your art?  What type of standard do you need to follow in order to produce the best kind of work possible?  What is your aim and purpose in this project?  What are the tools that you need?  What techniques do you need to use or learn and master?  What are the things or who are the people in your life that will inspire and motivate you to make something beautiful?  If you have more than one idea brewing up in your mind, which one should you prioritize?  If you want to combine different ideas together would they complement or clash with each other?  Even the questions one needs to answer in art are not limited in any form the art will take nor in the medium it will use.

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