Two Manga Studio Brushes
Right before I left for New York for the weekend (and most of Monday), I figured out the first of two new brushes in Manga Studio. It approximates a dirty brush look using very condensed, large airbrush dots in the airbrush tool. Overall size is set to pen pressure, and random dots is unchecked. Keeping random dots checked seems to create a weird effect, injecting a lot of whitespace into the stroke.
I’m still trying to find the sweet spot in Manga Studio that will inject a lively, organic feel to brush strokes without sacrificing brush control. Using a large brush and creating a softer, cushioned pressure curve seems to go a long way. The strokes feel a lot like using a real brush to me. Well, as close as I’ve found digitally. Often, though, I make these sorts of adjustments and can’t deal with the lack of 1:1-size-to-pressure.
I have more control with a real brush. For the ease of production, reproduction, and a few other factors, I still prefer working digitally for most commercial projects.
Nov 21st, 2007 #
I see question marks where there should be links for the brushes… whimper…. I’d love to try ‘em out.
And an update— I threatened to take it to the next level with eFrontier (regarding inability to open Manga Studio demo files) and hit a brick wall. Nobody is cooperating. Shit.
Nov 22nd, 2007 #
Dick, eFrontier sold Manga Studio and a few other properties as of version 4 (forthcoming). I got a press release and got to talk one on one with a representative of the new company (I suspect I got on some mailing list because I advocate the program so much).
In short, eFrontier ain’t lookin’ to help nobody no time soon.
Like I said before, though, I’m willing to try a few things if you don’t mind sending the files my way.
I want to do an install of MS: Trial and try copying and pasting into MS: Full.
Nov 22nd, 2007 #
And some PHP screwed up my images. I will try and get that fixed!