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PE: Photoshop Brush PrimerPhotoshop: Brushes
There are a plethora of brushes available to you on photoshop. This guide will explain different brush settings, as well as how to install different brush packs here on deviantART. This guide is for pressure sensitive pen tablets. It is going to be much easier to do things with a tablet. Ones by Wacom are good, and you can get a bamboo for under 99$ USD.
Basic Brushes in Photoshop
It's important to stick with default ones to learn all the settings. You can do so many things with the hard round brush.
Bring up your brush palette in one of the following ways. (note I am in CS3, so the icons will look much older, but same thing. )

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Prismacolor Pencil Hair Tutorialby ~Shondrea

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Traditional Art / Drawing / Other

I've been asked many times over the past few years for a tutorial for my style of drawing hair. Well...I hope I did well!

This drawing was done on white sketchbook paper, I don't know the brand. It was scanned by an HP, edited together in GIMP.

1: Does this work for other brands of pencils?
- I'mnot sure, as I do not use other brands. Prismacolors are known for their soft, waxy blend-ability, so I'm not sure a harder core pencil will burnish and smooth as well.

2: Is this suppose to be realistic?
- No. My style is based on realistic shading and highlights, but, with a manga-like anatomy base. Therefore, it has a stylized feel.

3: I only have a couple colors. Will this still work?
- Yes and no. You really need at least 3 colors, plus white, to achieve this look. But, practice with one or two colors is a great way to work on getting your shapes and shines.

Any other questions?

*ImaginaryOctopus May 9, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

helpful and effective

~Adimaska Jan 8, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Great tutorial Machelle!

p.s. Call me sometime!

~Dynneekx Jan 4, 2013 Student Digital Artist

Thank you

~Shondrea Jan 4, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Anything for you Dyn!

*I-Madman Jan 3, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Very helpful! I can use this technique for really any part of color pencil drawing-which i need help it getting anything past a sketch stage. Thank you

~Shondrea Jan 4, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Exactly! the layering and burnishing technique is useful for most areas of a drawing!

~draumstafur Jan 3, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

very useful tutorial for those who got into colouring with pencils recently.

~Neoconvoy Dec 31, 2012 Student General Artist

Thanks for sharing!

*sweetmarly Dec 31, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Wow, this is fantastic....I could never do hair properly....thank you for sharing this.

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