Advanced brush concepts

While the basics of brushes were covered in a previous chapter (see Chapter 9), we will take the basic knowledge and expand it in this section, teaching you how to make specialty brushes using different nozzles and techniques primarily to create special effects. So let’s get started.

Different types of brushes

So far, I have shown you how to create categories, rename categories, and import and export brushes into different brush categories. However, in the Brushes tab, there is one area that we still have yet to explore. Here is where you can create different types of brushes. These options can be seen highlighted in Figure 15.1:

Figure 15.1 – The different brushes you can make in Affinity

Let’s go over the options highlighted in Figure 15.1:

• New Intensity Brush: This brush style uses values of black and white to generate the image. This is the primary type of brush we will use for this section...