Kali Ciesemier

Photoshop Brushes!

First off, hello new followers! With the influx of people, I got a bunch of questions asking me what kind of brushes I use for my work, so I figured I should do another post summarizing my methods:

I use a bunch of custom photoshop brushes, some that I’ve made myself (it’s easy, and there’s plenty of tutorials out there), and some that I’ve gotten from generous friends. I also use some great free brushes that I got here and here that you can also download!
I used to draw with the regular hard-round brush for everything, but now I usually use a very lightly textured brush for some slight variation in my lines (the line in red is from my favorite brush!)

I also use texture brushes as ‘stamps’ on top of my images, many of which I’ve gotten for free from Bittbox. I wrote a walk-through post a while back about how I use this texture-stamping method with the help of clipping masks.

Have fun!! :)