Can you get good brushwork with only the round brush? 

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"We're going to paint with one brush, at 100% opacity and on one layer." Calm down , Satan.

What a pleasant surprise today to see a notification of another Marco Bucci video. 🙂 You set a high bar with your tutorials --- really good thank you!

Your videos are gold! 🙏🏻

Thumbnail: "You should use round brushes! You'll learn a lot!" Me who never used any other brush: Interesting...

Is there a similar brush for CSP like the photoshop one? CSP has many and I have no idea what's supposed to be default round.

so its so important to enable transfer in brush setting when digital painting?

Don't fear an artist who buy millions of brushes for one art, fear an artist who use one brushes for millions of arts! - Marco Bucci probably

This make me realize that when i craving for like godly brush I just trying to runaway from the fact that Im not creative enough to use anything that I have to its maximum potential...

When you realize he's painting on the background layer:

The video for everyone always asking "Hey man, what brush did you use?"

One of my favorites is a square brush with the same settings as the round one

Sakimichan paints with the basic round brush only, just changing some settings when needed. I learned from her tutorials how versatile this brush can be, so I just use texture brushes in very specific situations. Also, I'm too lazy to test and master a lot of brushes. It's really helpful to see more people talking about this.

Brushwork not brush matters! :D This touches the reason why so many artists developped allergy to the question "What brush did you use?" - the question itself is innocent but in 90% or more cases it's caused by an awful mindset, that there are some magical brushes that do the work for you. And it's so great you made this video :)

Content is amazing as always but can we take a moment to appreciate Marco's voice? Its just so calming and grounding

God bless you, you clarrified something that has been circulating art communities for a while.

I only use 3 brushes: Round, tapered, and one to simulate chalk. ANY brush you "think" you need, you do not. Just learn to do it with a max of 3 brushes including round and you'll wonder why you even bothered before.

props on the thumbnail. honest, and to the point. makes for a very attractive lead in to the video

this is the definition of master the technique before the tool, the thing that my teacher keep remind me of.

Oh My God, yes! I am that type of person who is often getting overwhelmed by those thousands brushes, wkwk! Now I am glad that I am not a sinner for sticking with one brush (two actually, I am using "knife-like" brush too).

I was always a little overwhelmed by brushes so I usually end up just using the round brush anyway. The only thing I really variate, aside of size and pressure sensitivity, is hardness. As for skin I make the brush very smooth and for things I want to have texture or a hard edge in, I'll pick a harder edge. This way the round brush really has all I need. I find textured brushed tend to look kinda flat. But that's just me having given them up pretty early on.

the only true speed painter ever, the godfather of all digital painters only used 1 rounded brush with photoshop 5.5 to create his hundreds of incredible pieces. Craig mullins. If you don t know that, you are not part of the industry

Watch Bobby Chiu's interview with Craig. If I remember correctly, he said he did indeed used a mouse when he started digital painting.

Fun fact: Almost every famous digital artists use this brush for their paintings!

I swear your tutorials have improved my work faster than years training at the Academy. Thank you so, so much! :)

Found that quick timed color studies forced me to use specific mostly simple brushes , in fact I recommend quick 5 min color studies from movie stills , as you also use brushwork for storytelling

I worked for Hamagami Carroll (now PicturePlane) in the mid to late 90s. All but one of us were still painting 100% traditionally. Craig Mullens came in a gave us a digital painting demonstration. ALL MOUSE. It is true. It was amazing. It blew my mind, but ,at the time it felt a little“cheaty.” I was a hardcore traditionalist then. I feel very differently now. He was working for Bungie at the time.

yes, in traditional painting , what we have is round and flat brush, if u want texture you improve your brushwork to gain natural signature stroke. or If u are looking for a specific texture you have to do it manually. especially in oil painting

bucci gang bucci gang

Craig Mullins always could

"This little light o' mine, I'm gonna let it shine" distracted me from *anything* he had to say about SquareSpace

woah early, yes I think sinix had a similar video about the same topic, happy to see you cover it as well,

My brother and I started with Photoshop 3.0 and we did all our painting using a mouse. There were no tablets back then.

"Round brush challange" ... I paint with the round brush ever since I've started digital painting XD

Marco this video is one of the best one's ive seen from you. I was struggling with artblock for ages, and i just decided to watch this because it showed up in my subscription feed, and all the stuff about "limitations breeding innovation" and purposefully limiting yourself has already helped me get back to painting digitally.

"paint with one brush, 100% opacity, on one layer" oh so its just how i usually draw because paint3d has literally 8 brushes

I agree w/ you about he "featureless" ness of the round brush. But look how quickly you made a 2 second forest w/ the textured brush lol.

If this is a traditional art, how would you deal with the head scaling and multiply? Just curious, i started from digital but decided to do acrylic painting now for fundamental studies

This absolute mad lad is painting in one layer. Mad respect.

One of my fav digital painters said they use the round brush a lot because it reminds them of their early days using gouache, where you can easily define the shape, then fill it in. I always think of that. Round brush feels conducive to well defined shapes and really helps one easily transition from drawing to painting with no break in flow. You can also use it in any stage of a painting.

@marcobucci: Great tutorial and I recall Craig Mullins (the Godfather of Digital Painting) praising the round brush and saying that he uses it as his primary workhorse because it is most expressive, and he usually paints with this brush palette options open to adjust the settings as needed throughout his project. For this Batman image, was your tablet pressure normal? Do you have both opacity and flow jitter pressure on, or just opacity for this image? What is your brush spacing set at on your hard round for this image, and what is the edge hardness percentage if you don't mind?

I still remember one of my teacher use scallions as a pen and sauce as pigment to draw iron man in his video.

I have 200 brushes.... And actually only using one...

I am researching digital brushwork today and you upload this! Thank you so much!

Round brush with opacity and no pen pressure for lines is underated.

Why he always Batman? Because he's the Batman..n he's showing his Bat Brush

your fingers may be glued here "[" & "]" but mine are glued here "Ctrl" & "Z"

Is this some sort of problem that I'm too analog to understand?

all my homies doing the freestyle round brush verse

Something Marco makes really clear here is that the complexity you often aim for by using different brushes can be attained with many other factors. For example here he uses the default pressure sensitivity of the tablet which creates different opacity marks. Also different sizes of the same brush. What holds this piece together is a great understanding of basic techniques you CAN learn. You would prefer that your skill comes from your understanding of these techniques rather than the accidental result of complicated brushes or other tricks that don't hold weight unless you can master the basics first

"Can i borrow your notes?" "Yeah sure" - *pass notes with sketches & no text 🤭 "Oh, Okay"

My most beloved round basic brush

Wow, you packed so much knowledge into just 1 video. I learned about lighting, brush strokes, color tones, color melding, color palettes, color harmony, the fade tool and more. Thank you very much.

It's not the basic round brush, the setting are tweaked to not be at 100%opacity but alright, good vid.

These anti-clickbait thumbnails are getting out of control

Great as always..... I religiously watch all your videos T-T

I actually believe quite firmly in creative limits. Frustration often leads to innovation. So I limited myself to painting on two layers: Front and back (and hardly actually use the back layer), work in greyscale exclusively and have focused on painting faces or portraits for the time being. Halfway between starting and now I stopped a brushstroke constraint as it was just too much and limited my growth. At which point I extended my use of brushes just a little. I use a pencil brush and a simple round brush together, some bits just turn out better with a bit of texture. The reason for me explaining all that is simple. I actually really like working this way for now. It really helps me develop on a single thing at a time. Doesn't help that I'm just a hobbyist and I get to do like a single painting a month on average :(. Good stuff though, highly recommend people to give creative limits a try!

you sound like that cool guy who curses a lot but don't curses around at public

Sorry for the fangirling but I just need to say it. It amazes me how easily can you just spend all the time in the details I can't even figure it out where to go in my own paintings

That was amazing, how long was the process? Id estimate 7-9hrs

When you said just one layer my anxiety went 📈

(Pogs harder)

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

"Trabajar con limitaciones genera innovación"....Estoy absolutamente de acuerdo con eso...Hoy en día las estas herramientas digitales proporcionan muchas (quizás demasiadas) posibilidades y existe el riesgo de perderse en ello. Se imaginan si le pasaramos una tableta digital a Da Vinci o a Van Gogh o Caravaggio.....Qué harian...????

Am watching as soon as I got the notification yaas ❤️

I am the batman

I'm a big fan of your videos, boss

I can confirm this - I basically use only two brushes - one for blocking out big blocks of color (my other brush has too much randomization to be effective) and my all-purpose brush

Marco is amazing and love his videos. Here is a little tip on hotkeys: Instead of using brackets as hotkeys for changing brushsize you can use A and D, Then you have all the surrounding buttons available for other uses. I have S set for smudge, W for magic wand, Q for brush, E for eraser, R for lasso and F for mixer brush. Everything at the palm of my hand.

HARD ROUND LOOMIS

Would you mind making another demo about this. I don't like working with many brushes, in fact I only love round brush. I am so much inspired by this work and willing to hear more thought processes on working with round brush and textures. I really would like to see deep processes in working with only round brush.

The fact that you only used ONE FREAKING LAYER FOR THE WHOLR PAINTING IS INSANE!!! 🤯

This is an excellent demonstration for putting the focus on what's important in learning to paint. Your round brush I think is less than 100% hardness to avoid pixel sharp edges, right?

It's funny around the 6:00 min mark you mention Mullins using only the mouse for CG in the 90's because I'm a physically disabled artist and a tablet just doesn't work well for me. I do everything with the mouse. People like Craig inspired me to keep trying, and got me where I am today ;)

"You can make good art with one brush, consistent opacity, and one layer." This is the biggest "skill issue" flex ever.

So as a counter opinion, I love textured brushes (but not why you'd think) and I personally don't like the round brush. Its perfectly round edge looks artificial and makes me feel like I'm doing something "fake" because you don't find such round perfection in nature. Thankfully, I don't get overwhelmed by brushes--I just find a few that get the creative juices flowing and mix up brushwork with size, color, value, and form. Nonetheless, I do think artists should be able to use any brush (hell, Jordan Grimmer uses a swordsman) but beyond that is personal preference.

lololololololol i've come this far From Adobe Photoshop 2.5 ~ 5:30 & i was a 5yr old child & back then i was using NUDGE tool to paint with mouse ... heh! you're still very newbie

Round brush is good, but big round brush and flat colors - this this the way of taking your art to the next level. By the way, great video as always!

Is it just hard round brush? (I'm asking because there are variants like pressure opacity/size or just hard round and it gets me confused which to use I just want one so I'm not overwhelmed)

I got you beat. Version 1.0 here. There were no layers and it was only “256->thousands of colors” depending on which computer you had at the time. “Millions of colors” wasn’t been a thing yet. And yes we had styluses back then. They were no where near as good as today but they were a thing.

I came here because I saw your grip pen on the thumbnail. I thought I was the only intous 3 user left. Great tutorial, btw. Cheers :)

2:56 I love the hues you have at this stage of the painting. And I mean this as a great compliment even though it's partially a critique that the colors at this stage are better than the final colors. I make the same mistake of oversaturating and pulling out too much contrast. I think at around 2:50 however, you have a masterful grasp of the motif, colors and feeling 👍 I wish you would have refined those color hues instead of pushing the saturation and gritty lines across the forehead etc. This actually makes the painting so flat and boring by comparison to what you had at the earlier stages! I'm trying to remedy the same exact problem in my own process right now 😂 Where the actual colors are WAY better 1/3rd of the way in, and the processing, detailing and additions eventually oversaturate, flatten and blare out the entire paintings feeling that was there at one thirds into the process.

I remember the original ps... I probably would be further in that digital art progress if I hadn't quit so many times. XD

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Brushes is one of those fancy tools that digital artists go nuts over, but I don't bother. I use Krita instead of Photoshop because I can't afford a fancy art program with a subscription. Now I realize that it is not such a bad thing. The video says that limits breed innovation. I don't feel like I am missing out, even if I am not using the top tier program. I still do fine with Krita. I can still do good art for my skill level without much downside. I have access to basic tools, and it is fine. Krita even has plenty of tools on top of that which I don't use anyway. I only use a hanful of basic brushes, and I find it good enough. There is the pencil, the marker, the paint brush, the air brush and the eraser. Dude I can count that on one hand. Yikes. My biggest priority is texture. I dont worry about fancy brushes or trying to make digital painting look like traditional painting. Instead I aim to make the texture of the picture look like the texture in real life. If the texture is smooth, I use an air brush. If it is not, I use the paintbrush tool. I make it small. Then I can give strokes to add texture. I can do this with hair, fur, feathers and grass. I pay attention to how this fluff would naturally grow out in real life. Then I paint that accordingly. If I were to paint Batman, I would use an air brush on him. He is so smooth. He doesn't even have his hair showing. I wonder if feathers are furry scales in a way. I was wondering about how to use saturation in art. Now I see there is a video on color harmony. I think I ought to rewatch it. The only part I remember is when Han Solo tries to put everybody together in his team. He has an easier time when the saturation goes down. I would also like to check out Mario Bucci's website. I use Wix instead of Sqarespace. It is so convenient to make my own website without learning how to program. I am an artist, not an IT person. So making web building as user friendly as possible to laypeople is nice. I would like to visit the Mario Bucci site to see how it works. I can get good ideas on web design.

Check out Dan Mumford. All his works are done with the basic PS brush

if you want to see more beautiful round brush only paintings LiXin Yin is making a Round brush head painting practice challenge www.artstation.com/artwork/g2PQr8

Great tutorial about the mindset of digital painting. I got an ipad recently and really want to paint on it, but it feels so unnatural and I'm not in love with the rigidity of digital. This changes how I'll approach it next time, thanks!

Non native english speaker here ! What does it mean when you say you block overall composition tones, or block colors ? I hear that a lot in art videos but I'm having a hard time understanding what it is. Great video though :)

I've always thought that limiting & simplisting the options can give a better results. But can I ask a question! how the default rounded brush can be transparent at the edges! mine is so sharp

What brushes do you use?

I don't like using the round brush because something about it feels uncomfortable... Idk how to explain it. It's like my brain makes up a "feeling" I get when using it as if it was an actual brush with a material I don't like. Irl I hate drawing on smooth paper because of the feel, and id compare it to that.

There's many brushes on some of the programs I use. So, when refining, I usually do it with two or three brushes. However, since I downloaded a bunch of free lineart to practice painting, I've decided to use 1 brush for both laying down color and refining, while experimenting with color combinations. And it's not always the round brush. 😌

“And that’s photoshop 4, not CS4 “ Bucci is the youngest relic of 2020 .

Art teacher: okay students we're gonna paint about symbol of fear The kid in the back*

hi marco..grt video..m confused..what sells more.. watercolor oils or acrylics ?? what to make career in..watercolor oils or acrylics..pls guide..thnk u v much...

Could you even use clipping layers for this kind of style? How would you even emulate the same effect?

When I use the round brush with the default opacity setting the strokes overlap creating a darker area even if the pressure is the same. There's a way to fix this keeping the opacity setting on?

Holy dinosaur tablet Batman! Just seeing a clip of that intuos threw me back to 2010. I swear you can snowboard on that thing, use it as a cutting board, hammer in some nails with it, ah and do digital art with it of course.