Watercolor box


Draw and Blur

Features: “Inverted pressure” – low pen pressure gives color, hight pressure is blending colors (Like in real life – gently touch gives saturated watercolor blob, but a full pressure wipes the paint) 

Recommended style: Increase and decrease pressure power to get a liquid spotted effect like in real watercolor. 

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Wet blender

This brush doesn’t give color, it’s a pure blender.

Features: Blending colors; With full pressure can work as an eraser. 

Recommended style:  Work in gentle circular motions

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Draw dry

This brush draws a sharp edges stroke with a translucent inner area. Also, it can give a solid stroke with pointy ends.

Features: At pen low pressure the brush stop drawing and start to remove some paint from saturated parts. This action depending on speed – fast speed makes paint more light; The brush has its own texture. 

Recommended style:  Good for some floral paint, and, also, for texturized effect. 

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Draw wet

This brush has an uneven form which gives some expression to the strokes. Strokes look very wet.

Features: Size, opacity, and color amount depending on speed.

Recommended style: Good for details, floral painting, and fast strokes.

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Draw with water

This is the main watercolor brush in part of drawing. Universal brush for many tasks. 

Features: Has a pointy start if you draw with a quick motion; Hard pressure add paint, low pressure – blending; on perpendicular angle erase a little bit; 

Recommended style: Very universal brush suitable for most tasks.

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Smart water

This brush has an uneven shape and draws translucent spots with a bold edge.

Features: wipes the paint insider spot when drawing multiple times in the same place; perpendicular angle gives more paint;  Blend colors on low pressure; 

Recommended style: good for picturesque spots, texturing, simulate wet areas.

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Dry blender

This brush doesn’t draw – only blends and removes paint, making the painting uniform. “Dry blender” is one of the main watercolor brushes in “Realistic”.

Features: The brush blends only inside the drawn! Gives bold edges; the less paint, the less the brush removes paint;

Recommended style: This brush transforms any patchy spots to a uniform spot with a beautiful color gradient. Don’t press too hard at the start, work in gentle circular motions.

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Little drops

The brush draws a little watercolor drops and spots based on real scanned watercolor blobs.

Features: draw drops but blends inside drops on low pressure.

Recommended style: Draw by circular motions inside required are, drops draws randomly, so you may need to UNDO and redraw if random spots look not good for the current task. Also, you can erase drops from filled areas by low pen pressure.

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Fine detail

Pointy sharp brush for adding details.

Features: Perpendicular angle reduce brush transparency

Recommended style: Draw any details. Good for drawing over already drawn. 

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Pure water

This is a unique tool that draws drops flowing down the canvas.

Features: Blends with colors through which a drop flows; Click+hold to set the drop length. 

Palette:  “Pure water” has it’s own palette:

Blue bottle: a collection of drops flows by paper
Orange bottle: a collection of drops flows by plastic
Red bottle: a collection of drops flows by wet paper
Green bottle:
same as blue, but thicker paint with minimum blending value

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Salt

When salt is sprinkled on a wet wash, it starts to gather the watercolor pigments and makes a nice texture.

Features: salt works like a scattering eraser.

Recommended style: Good for “snow effect”, “stars effect”, “particulars”

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Sponge

Sponge makes the image looks very wet and liquid.

Features: “Sponge” doesn’t draw, it’s only blending colors. 

Recommended style: Blur

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Napkin

This tool removes excess paint and adds texture.

Features: doesn’t draw, only blends; has own texture; with gentle pressure can smudge an image; 

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