Mypaint V4 Brushkit

19 january 2011

My V4 brushkit for Mypaint 0.9 ( and + ) is out ! I took the time this start of week to clean my production kit, and draw better icon to share it for free to download. Click on 'read more' button to read the complete version of the article, with preview, exemples, download links , installation and licence instructions.

Infos, Whats new in V4 ? :

More tools 'variations' than in the previous kit, for a faster workflow.
All the V4 Brushkit are optimised to produce bigger artworks at better resolutions, you should set your default zoom at startup at 50% (Mypaint>edit>preferences>view) for a better experience while using them.[picture exemple]. Sorry if your machine slows-down, but V4 is clearly a production brush kit designed for professional use.
Brush are not labeled with their name as in the 'transitional V3+ BrushKit' I created for Mypaint 0.9 release. The new icons were painted in Mypaint preview square on the fly.
Almost all the brush were tweaked to have a better behavior. If you want to have the same feeling I do while using them, consider changing the curve to something similar to this configuration (mypaint>edit>preferences>input).[picture exemple]

V4 in action :

The Sketch tool in action ; I like this large digital brush combined with a light grey to lay down the main volumes on my artworks ( you can see it in my DVD tutorial Chaos&Evolutions )

The Artpen tool in action ; a lineal brush with a good nervous sensivity to pressure, and a good tool to draw line with 'shift' too. Ideal for concept art works.

A set of 4 Eraser , usefull during sketching ; The 'e' key is fine in Mypaint, but many times you just need to erase a part of the drawing, a detail or just brighten a zone with a kneaded eraser to redo a proper line over, keeping the guidance of the old line.

This 2 first rows of tools are my 'Sketch & drawing' tools. Now, because I start working in Mypaint, this is really useful to me. (the example above is about my dominance war mini challenge entry, you can see the finished illustration here : www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?article51/dominance-war-5-mini-challenge

All the V3 'flat brushes' were renamed to 'knifes', it's easier to select them this way, and adds more diversity in the icons. I use them often when I want to block a shape directly into digital painting.

The main part of this V4 is about digital painting. Mypaint still suffers the lack of blending modes, which is an efficient workflow when you are in-between the steps of 'sketching and drawing' and 'painting details'. But if you use Gimp on the in-between gap, this digital painting brush set will help you finishing the artwork. This block contains the same brush with variations on opacity and size, this might be a way of 'abusing' the brushlist as a preset collection, but it is really productive, mostly on the detailing part, when you have to paint little details, switching for glazing a part, or covering another part with full opacity.

The 'watercolor' now differenciated from the genius watercolors of the Tanda set ( in V3 they were assumed copies ). I set them to my needs when coloring comics as you can see in a video I did about watercolor in Mypaint here : www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?article53/digital-watercolor-with-mypaint-0-9-and-gimp-painter. I like the waterfringe obtained with Mypaint which ( imo ) breaks the digital and boring effect of the classical flat colors comics usually have.

The last brushes of this V4 kit are similar to the V3 ( dry techniques , spray, black and white ). If you want to know more about them, read the post about the V3 here: www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?article33/mypaint-v3-brushkit

Download :

Download the zip archive : deevad4-mypaint-brushkit.zip ( 811 ko )

Install :

1. Download (link above) and save the zip file in your computer.
2. Open Mypaint (0.9 or later ) and go to Mypaint>Brush menu and click on 'Import brush package'. A file explorer will open and just select the previously downloaded zip file on your disk.
3. The licence will Pop up now, you just need to accept it to continue.
4. Done! the 'Deevad4' group will appear in Mypaint's Brush list.
5.Happy painting !!

License :

The distribution and the files are under the creative commons 3.0 attribution. Attribution text : 'by David Revoy | www.davidrevoy.com' . If you want to know more about ; read the following page here.

Exeptions / Informations :

You are free to use those brushes files to draw / paint a commercial project without giving me attribution.
You can show them in a screenshot of your workflow or in a video screencast freely without giving me attribution.
You can show them in your school if you are a teacher or a student and do a presentation about them on a CMYK ( paper / print ) support or a RVB ( video / internet / presentation / Tv ) without giving me attribution.
If you are a developper of an open source software, you can use them in your code for your software without giving me attribution.

Update:

4.1 - [01/20/2011] Corrected the wrong behavior of "blending" and "water1" with the help of Darquenoir in the comments.
[02/09/2011] Thanks to Slug FortyFive english corrections sent by email.

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78 comments

1. Juan Guzzy

www.xochitecpancalli.com
wednesday 19 january 2011, 14:38

d'excellents outils, merci David

2. deburger

4cg.ru
wednesday 19 january 2011, 20:19

thanks... looks awsome!

3. robi

wednesday 19 january 2011, 20:45

Thank You David!

4. Yorik

yorik.uncreated.net
wednesday 19 january 2011, 21:07

Fantastic!!! I'm a big fan of your brushes! Thanks a lot for polishing them so well and sharing with us!

5. Darkqueenoir

thursday 20 january 2011, 01:26

First I have to say thank you very much for this fantastic V4 brushkit, but I have some doubts, well, I usually use a lot the Blending brush from V3 but the new blending from V4 looks very different, and this happens like the watercolour brushes, I will show you the examples.

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(V3 version of these two brushes looks a little better and comfortable than V4, the rest of the brushes from V4 are amazing!)

I hope this does not bother you, but these changes of these 2 brushes look weird. Sorry if my english is very bad.

Thanks again for show us and give us a lot of artistic ways to create drawings in My Paint :)

6. Camille Bissuel

www.yagraph.org
thursday 20 january 2011, 08:35

Merci beaucoup, ça va va bien servir !

7. David REVOY

www.davidrevoy.com
thursday 20 january 2011, 10:37

Thank you for the positive welcome to this brushkit !

@Darkqueenoir : Thanks for your feedback, this are precious crits for me, and you are right ; those tweaks ( I made with time ) are finally regression from V3. So I reverted and updated the brush kit. You can download and install this V4.1 again after deleting the V4, I also updated the article with a note at the end about this 4.1 ;) Thanks for the screens and links , that's helped a lot to understand.
For information : the change to 'water1' was a bug from my bad using of the pressure curves at one moment. For the 'blending', it was just a reduction of the 'Dabs per actual radius' option ; witch one I decreased automatically to a lot of tools to keep good performance at 50% viewport.

8. Swyyw

thursday 20 january 2011, 13:11

Thanks David!

9. Sephiroth the Bimbo Master

juliogarcia.spectrafx.net
thursday 20 january 2011, 15:49

Many thanks for the kit, I have seen your V3 time ago, but never tried it, but now I have downloaded the V4 and it's very useful, just what I need to improve time while working.

10. Darkqueenoir

thursday 20 january 2011, 16:30

Perfect! This time both brushes looks perfect for their function :D

Thank you very much!!

www.darkqueenoir.deviantart.com

11. artmessiah

duanewayne.blogspot.com
friday 21 january 2011, 05:54

Thank you, I love your brushes

12. fromlugdunum

fromlugdunum.free.fr/pluxml/index.php
friday 21 january 2011, 14:15

MyPaint V9 n'a pas du tout aimé l'installation de ce kit ! Depuis, MyPaint refuse de se lancer, même après une réinstallation. Suis-je le seul à avoir constaté un soucis ? merci

13. Deevad

www.davidrevoy.com
friday 21 january 2011, 15:06

Thanks for the comments, I like to read them :)
Cool the 4.1 corrected the too brushes.

@fromlugdunum: Il ne s'agit pas d'une erreur provenant de mon kit V4.1 mais un problème avec Mypaint 0.9 malheuresement ( C'est moi qui est fait le Bugreport il y a plus d'un mois ) . Quand la dernière brosse sélectionné avant fermeture est vide ou absente à la réouverture ( souvent après un 'pick context' ; touche W , ou bien un remplacement ou un renommage du kit 'Deevad' par défaut dont la selection de la brosse de base à l'ouverture est 'hardcodé' ). A présent tout ça est corrigé dans la version développement Git, mais ça reste un bug ennuyant.

Ma solution pour ceux qui restent en V.9 ( et non en V9 Git+ ) consisterai à renommer DeevadV4 en Deevad ( si suppression de l'ancien Deevad il y a ) afin de toujours garder un kit nommé Deevad.

Si ça ne fonctionne après même une résintalation , c'est parceque l'erreur est dans le dossier de préférences utilisateurs ( dossier ~/.mypaint/ dans le profil utilisateur du système d'exploitation ) Dans ce cas là renommer le dossier en .mypaint-old et lancer à nouveau Mypaint...
J'éspère que ça aidera.

14. Márcio Lacerda

friday 21 january 2011, 18:07

Thanks David!!! :D

15. Steven

friday 21 january 2011, 19:29

Thank you, you always have something to offer, where you find the time I don't know ;) but a big thank you. Steven

16. DarioTW

dariocaballeros.blogspot.com/
friday 21 january 2011, 22:50

Merci, David
thanks a million :)

17. Ecksell

friday 21 january 2011, 23:04

Waoo...
Une fois de plus, MERCI :)

18. Deevad

www.davidrevoy.com
friday 21 january 2011, 23:27

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I'm happy to get a lot of comments. It's good to meet Mypaint users :)

@Steven : Sharing and building a collective project is a passion , a kind of video games :) And I always find a bit of time for a passion.

@DarioTW: vivat kielbasa :-D I'm a kielbasa fanboy and always bring 2 packs in my back when I go in Poland. Cool article on your blog.

@Ecksell : Comme on dit à Toulouse ; avec plaisir !

19. slug45

slug45.jarfil.net/blog/
sunday 23 january 2011, 02:48

Thank you very much, David !!.

20. fromlugdunum

fromlugdunum.free.fr/pluxml/index.php
sunday 23 january 2011, 13:37

merci pour ton retour. Après une suppression des "restes" lié à mon profil, tout refonctionne. Encore merci

21. faustissima

faustissima.deviantart.com
tuesday 25 january 2011, 21:27

Thank you very much for a wonderful and useful set of brushes. Yours are the ones I use most. The set is varied, yet not too "crowded".

22. Gabri

www.mindmaptheweb.com
wednesday 26 january 2011, 10:00

Thank you very much, I started using them and they seems very good!

23. sreenivas

thursday 27 january 2011, 13:30

The brushes are really nice. I just want to let you know that only after looking at your works I have started working in my paint and gimp.

Thank you for the inspiration and sharing the brushes.

24. Brian L.

sunday 30 january 2011, 16:56

Thanks! I'll try them out right now!

25. Grant M.

tuesday 01 february 2011, 01:26

I only hope to do these brushes justice in my art. Thank you once again for your contributions to the MyPaint community, David.

26. Anony

wednesday 09 february 2011, 09:02

I'm confused on the license on this. What are the attribution requirements? One says that it is required, but then the exceptions seem to override that requirement.

27. REVOY David

www.davidrevoy.com
sunday 13 february 2011, 15:11

Thanks you all for the cool comment on this brushkit.

@Anony : I know this license may sound complex, it's just a CC-By ( creative commons attribution ) with some case of non-attributing ( mainly during usage ). Next brush kit will be surely full GPL 3.0, as I more and more understand this license.

28. Paytonpak

tuesday 15 february 2011, 15:43

Trop de la bombe de boulette de patate de balle !
Merci Maitre !
Et puis félicitations pour ta future publication sur le CFSL 5 !

29. yoann

tuesday 15 february 2011, 21:06

Bonjour à vous !
Je vais passer pour un gros noob, mais Ubuntu n'a MyPaint qu'en version 0.8.2 et il semble impossible d'importer des brushes.. Comment puis-je résoudre ce problème ? Je ne suis sur Linux que depuis 3 jours ^^

30. yoann

tuesday 15 february 2011, 21:47

bon ben j'ai réussi a installer tout ca, je suis fier de moi ^^. Il me manquait plein de packages..

Par contre est normal que tout les autres brushes aient disparu dans cette derniere version ? (0.9)

31. David REVOY

www.davidrevoy.com
wednesday 16 february 2011, 11:00

@Paytonpak : Merci pour le petit mot sur le CFSL 5, je l'ai appris par ton commentaire ;)

@yoann : Pas de soucis avec la noob attitude, on a tous commencé un jour et moi c'est pas si loin avec Linux. ( pour l'installation depuis la version développement, désolé du retard de réponse ; j'ai expliqué ça ici au deuxième post : forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=3964728 ).
Pour les brosses manquantes ; il y a eu un tri entre la version 0.8 et la 0.9 ; c'est peut-être ça ? Sinon il doit toujours y avoir au moins 4 ou 5 listes bien fournie dans la 0.9 ( Deevad/Ramon/Tanda/Ico-dy/Default/Experimental...etc... )

32. Paytonpak

wednesday 16 february 2011, 19:47

Tout le plaisir est pour moi !
J'en mettrai ma wacom à rayer que ça sera ton illus du yinyang...

En attendant, j'retourne gribouiller en espérant que ce sera moi le prochain publié !

33. yoann

thursday 17 february 2011, 13:20

Je suis assez émerveillé de voir oh combien il est agréable de travailler avec MyPaint. Si au départ j'étais dubitatif quand à l'espace de travail "infini", cela se révèle agréable au moment du rough et de la recherche de composition. Je regrette juste de ne pas avoir les modes de fusion de calques habituels, mais j'ai vu sur le forum de dev qu'apparemment ca devrait être implémenté plus tard. Finger crossed pour ne plus avoir a sortir de MyPaint ^^.
D'après ce que j'ai compris David, le workflow est 99% Linux, si ce n'est lors du passage en CMJN pour du print ou tu as recours à Photoshop ?
En tout cas bravo pour ton travail et ta participation dans la communauté. Je pense participer modestement aussi !
Bone journée !

34. REVOY David

David Revoy

illustrator , concept-artist