Watercolour pencils
Username: LolaInTheBlack
Post Date: 2025-11-30 13:10:19
Hello!
I was thinking about doing something like watercolour pencils brushes for Rebelle - I recreated Polychromos colour set and use it with the brush someone made to imitate Faber-Castell graphite pencil and it works for me but I was thinking about making also a set of F-B watercolour pencils.
And here's the issue: is it even possible to make them act like a pencil and then after applying wet brush like a watercolour? I tried to do that on top of pencil but it barely blurs it so I'm guessing it has to do with some setting that would make it act like watercolour if there is such a setting since it's not supposed to act like a watercolour when applied.
I'll precise what's my issue: it's the blending after - I can't find the right brush or settings to act like a brush with only water, no colour - if I use blending setting it doesn't act like water, when I use water application it doesn't act like a brush moving that water in the direction of the stroke, it just makes the whole touched area wet.
Did anyone try to do it or found something that works like that?
Username: Melampode
Post Date: 2025-12-01 00:13:25
Unfortunately, the watercolor diffusion doesn't happen while making brush (or Water) strokes, so you cannot actively put down water [I]and[/I] move color at the same time. However, you can control the direction that color gets diffused in two ways:
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[*]You can use the Blow tool on an area you've wet, and manually control the directional flow of water and pigment, until the diffusion has finished. This will give you the most control, and might feel closest to what you're looking for--though it does split "add water" and "move pigment" into two steps instead of one.
[*]You can also use the Tilt panel to cause the water and pigment to flow in a specific direction, similar to tilting your paper. This gives you less refined control, but may be useful if you want all pigment to diffuse evenly in a specific direction, such as for gradients. You can also change the angle and strength of the tilt while diffusion is ongoing, if necessary. (I just tested having its angle set "away" from my brush strokes, let the water diffuse for a bit, then changed back "toward" the brush strokes after the pigment had hit the far edge (or just before). It may take some testing and timing (and using the Pause Diffusion button) to avoid the diffusion finishing before the pigment gets back over the brush strokes, but that gave me a smooth gradient that avoided forming a hard edge where the water ended.)
[*]Bonus note: each "brush stroke" with the Blow tool, or angle change of the Tilt panel, counts as one "action" in the history. So if you change angles more than once during a diffusion, you can also choose whether to partially or fully undo what you've done.
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You'll probably also want to turn off Create Drips in the Visual Settings, though it can add some irregularity (via stronger concentrations of pigments near where drips form, in stripes or splotches, depending on when they formed or changed angles), if you like that effect.
Username: LolaInTheBlack
Post Date: 2025-12-01 13:44:09
[QUOTE="Melampode, post: 30727, member: 123697"]
Unfortunately, the watercolor diffusion doesn't happen while making brush (or Water) strokes, so you cannot actively put down water [I]and[/I] move color at the same time. However, you can control the direction that color gets diffused in two ways:
[LIST]
[*]You can use the Blow tool on an area you've wet, and manually control the directional flow of water and pigment, until the diffusion has finished. This will give you the most control, and might feel closest to what you're looking for--though it does split "add water" and "move pigment" into two steps instead of one.
[*]You can also use the Tilt panel to cause the water and pigment to flow in a specific direction, similar to tilting your paper. This gives you less refined control, but may be useful if you want all pigment to diffuse evenly in a specific direction, such as for gradients. You can also change the angle and strength of the tilt while diffusion is ongoing, if necessary. (I just tested having its angle set "away" from my brush strokes, let the water diffuse for a bit, then changed back "toward" the brush strokes after the pigment had hit the far edge (or just before). It may take some testing and timing (and using the Pause Diffusion button) to avoid the diffusion finishing before the pigment gets back over the brush strokes, but that gave me a smooth gradient that avoided forming a hard edge where the water ended.)
[*]Bonus note: each "brush stroke" with the Blow tool, or angle change of the Tilt panel, counts as one "action" in the history. So if you change angles more than once during a diffusion, you can also choose whether to partially or fully undo what you've done.
[/LIST]
You'll probably also want to turn off Create Drips in the Visual Settings, though it can add some irregularity (via stronger concentrations of pigments near where drips form, in stripes or splotches, depending on when they formed or changed angles), if you like that effect.
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Thank you for your reply!
I usually use tilt and to be honest I didn't think about testing the blow tool yet - somehow it skipped my attention.
I'll make sure to test it now.
I thought that I might have missed some option for directing water and since there was none I could find I made a temporary solution "dirty water brush" - applying water with just few % of opacity but it's not exactly what I was looking for.
I hope Escape Motions will add such a brush option for just water that we can move in a chosen direction, I think I'll make a post in suggestions about it now, and in the meantime I think I'll abuse the pause key shortcut a lot while trying to get the results I want :)
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