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Watched a Twitch artist paint a whole forest scene with just 3 brushes, made me rethink my 40-brush setup
Last Thursday I was killing time on Twitch and landed on this small channel, maybe 200 viewers, where a guy painted a full misty pine forest in about 2 hours. He used a default round brush, one flat textured brush, and a single scatter brush for the needles. That was it. Meanwhile my Procreate file for a similar scene has 40 brushes in it and I keep bouncing between them like I'm picking cereal at the store. I rewound the VOD twice just to make sure I wasn't missing some secret custom set he loaded offscreen. He wasn't, the brush panel was right there the whole time. So I deleted about 30 brushes off my main canvas and forced myself to do a study with just three, and honestly the piece came out cleaner because I wasn't fussing over texture choices for an hour. Anyone else find that a tiny brush set actually helps, or do you need the big library to feel ready?
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white.seth17d ago
Three brushes works fine for that guy because misty pine forests are mostly soft shapes and low contrast, which hides a lot of sins. Try the same trick on a rock pile or wet scales and you will miss every texture brush you tossed. I keep a small core set and a big junk drawer, and the junk drawer earns its keep maybe once a month.
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