You can learn more about the free pixel art brush pack and see it in action in Affinity Designer in the video below. The brushes are in ABR (Photoshop) format, but can be used in a variety of applications including Affinity Photo/Designer, GIMP, Krita and more.
Sketchbook free pixel art brush how to#
We also encourage you to experiment with them without preconceptions on how to use them. We hope these make your texturing process in pixel art faster and more accessible ^w^)/ These brushes were created to ease the process, but are not enough to build polished textures and pixel-level work will usually be necessary to get nice results. It’s preferable to polish the results with some anti-aliasing, especially in noisy brushes such as the ones found in the wood pack.
These brushes are recommended for medium resolution pixel art games (2x-4x pixel resolution) with detailed texturing. psd detailing how to build basic materials using the brushes.
The brushes are hosted on Itch.io available here. (No anti-aliasing) Brush size includes fixed size brushes (1-100px) and brushes whose size can be freely manipulated.
There are two types of brushes: one with a square tip and one with a round tip. Game developer Brainwash Gang have released a collection of pixel art brushes containing 382 brushes completely free. I created a brush to draw dots in Procreate.