New Marketplace Art +How it was made video!

Good evening everyone! I was out of town visiting family when these packs went live, so I'm a bit late to the party, but 3 New Brass Badger Workshop packs have been uploaded to the marketplace. This month there are the promised Modern Interiors, which scale with both the Metro-Matic and Dystopio-matic packs, an Alchemist's Lab expansion for Dungeon-o-Matic, and an Undead Minions Token pack, perfect for when one of your players decides to play a necromancer, or you decide to pit them against one. And, by request, I captured a time-lapse of my process for creating these tokens. You can watch it here <a href="https://t.co/PSmOEFHAvl" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/PSmOEFHAvl</a> and I hope you like it! Thanks!

Enjoyed your time lapse video presentation!

That video was so cool! Great work.

That's really nice. What is your reasoning for using a square brush?

I don't really have a solid rational reason other than "cuz I likes it", but I think it has something to do with how it "feels". I originally learned to paint in traditional media, mostly oil and charcoal, and will always probably approach digital media in a way that reflects that. My square brush feels like a square oil painting brush or a palette knife. Or even the square tip of a compressed charcoal stick. Round brushes just feel artificial for me, and don't give me a hard, chisel-y brush stroke where I want one at the same time as a soft, blending stroke where I want one.&nbsp; I also use a few "grungy" brushes to lay down texture, quickly approximate hair, and a "calligraphy" stoke for line work, but I really have winnowed down my brushes to a few I use most often. You're not the first to ask. I'm actually working on another video showing the how and why.

I like for the first 5 minutes of real time I was like, "Ok, I know how to do that, and that, annnnnd I'm lost."

Awesome video! I use a square brush as well! My friend&nbsp; Chris Walton turned me onto it first. &nbsp;It definitely allows for a more traditional, painterly look. &nbsp;Plus it's great for angles and it feels less digital and fake than a round brush. &nbsp;I actually use a modified version of a pencil brush I found (I forget the artist's name...) which is just a flat rectangle with its angle set to the brush stroke, that way I get some pretty cool and interesting brush strokes that come close to an inking pen but with the opacity and flow still set to pen pressure which still gives a painterly look.

Thanks Fernando! You get such smooth color gradients, I'd have expected you to use more airbrushy tools. It was cool to see your step-by-step on the forums as well. I absolutely love your Gnolls pack, by the way. I don't know how you get so much personality into what is mostly shoulders and heads. A hard problem well cracked! We really need to get a "Marketplace creator" forum or something so we can have more posts like this! Kunguru, there's an old meme that feels appropriate; <a href="http://img.pandawhale.com/post-35400-How-to-draw-a" rel="nofollow">http://img.pandawhale.com/post-35400-How-to-draw-a</a>... I think that perception happens to everyone. There are lots of steps in between, it just takes time and practice, and a good chunk of finding your own rhythm to see them, sometimes. :)