My Favorite Brushes for Adobe Fresco and Photoshop.

People often ask me what my favorite brushes are for drawing in Adobe Fresco. To be honest, I don't use a lot but I thought I'd walk through the ones I do use and share some tips for drawing with them. Because my work is fairly simple there’s really only a few categories of brushes in regular rotation. The first one is sketching. For me, I need to sketch in a brush that looks and behaves like a pencil. I don’t know why, but I find that if I start sketching using a brush I’d do final line work in, it’s a struggle.

The next category of brushes is the most important one for me. These are the brushes I use for linework. I’m picky about these even though they appear to be pretty simple. Basically I want these brushes to emulate drawing with a sign pen on smooth paper.

The next category is for texture and shading, the final category is "special occasions." These are brush sets I use when I'm after a specific look.

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[fionaflaherty]

🤯 minimum brush size just changed my life. why did I never think about this before?

[RobLuskey]

Hey Chris love the channel and your work. It has been a big inspiration for me to get back into drawing again. Just wanted to say thanks!

[monn.y]

I just found your channel recently. And honestly Im hooked! You really inspired me to get back to drawing again after 4-5 years. Also you really convinced me to use fresco over procreate ngl. Because Im a graphic designer Im already more comfortable in the adobe environment

[markopazyniak]

Thanks for sharing! I'll check those brushes. It's cool that you can add brushes so easily!

[AlisonAdventuring]

Definitely getting the retro risograph brushes! Thanks, i really like your channel.. I am trying to learn to digitise drawings, I love playing with Fresco.

[thejanebradbury]

There's so much in this video... but I had to stop at 7m14s to say "Oh good grief!! Set a minimum brush size to stop getting too detailed!" When I've finished cleaning my desk, I'm off to get that into practice...

[londonstar]

🤩Man… Thank you so much for making this video. You really help me so much and I’m sure everyone else as well. You’re the Best👍👍👍🤩

[ryanhite]

Such a great video! Good examples of each brush, and good examples of brush diversity.

[kyletwebster]

Thanks for the shout- great video AGAIN. How did you get so good at this so fast?

[torinux]

I downloaded Kyle's Mega Pack, and from there, I started to favorite the ones I like, and removing the rest. Kyle has a lot of fantastic brushes.

[DrewZilla_Art]

Thank you for creating another awesome video.

[melenabourbeau]

I just stubbled across your channel, watched this first video and already subscribed! .. I love your filming setup, and the way you explained the brushes .. I'm completely new to Fresco/digital art in general so I'm looking forward to checking out more of your videos! #supportcreators! - cheers, Mel.

[AtoMicEyeScream]

It would be great if you showed how to instal them. I couldn’t find those brushes of Kyle’s that you mentioned.

[markdorlas]

Thanks for this one. I have not yet subscribed to Fresco and I guess you need to be in order to add any brush but I think I might now because this all looks so cool.

Edit: I just subscribed to Fresco for a month trial and downloaded some brushes. I was wondering what that cool brush was that you use in some of the vids and I have found it. I love that classic inker by retro supply. I'm gonna hold back with the texturing stuff for now and see how the basis Fresco goes. Thanks for the vids man!

[ajonrich]

Ok, so I’ve dug around a bit, but I can’t find where/how to set the minimum brush size. Am I blind for missing this option? Don’t make fun of me too much… new to iPad illustration here. PS, great videos! Keep ‘em coming!

[GuitarShorts]

Hey Chris, that mega pack is something else, that’s an exploration in itself sifting through them. Quick question, do you know if there’s a way to rearrange your fav list? I want to put my most used brushes at the top. I tried drag & drop but no luck there. Also, enjoying your channel man, v cool.

[merlinoner]

They should implement this favorite system in Photoshop as well... Brushes are really a mess in Photoshop...

[TheFireBlazen]

I love how Kyle Webster keeps popping in and out to say HOWDY!!

[mariacruse]

This is exactly the question I had, and you answered it! Thank you, thank you thank you. Arghh, I spoke too soon… Where is too smooth to be forgotten? I haven’t been able to find it yet.

[marcogarcia]

Great stuff Chris! I just discovered Fresco since I had to get a subscription to Adobe and was looking around for something to use for my live caricatures for events. Pretty excited about what Fresco has to offer. Just having some trouble figuring out how to do things with the shapes. Don't know if I can use them the way I use them in Illustrator?