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Ray Frenden
Ray Frenden is a boy, has been a member since July 19, 2007, has scored 481 submissions, giving an average score of 2.17, helping 18 designs get printed.
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Download the brushes here.

I'm releasing my natural media brushes for Manga Studio. Manga Studio has a growing reputation as a great app for linework, but most overlook its efficient and impressive full color capabilities.

Sans Lettering

The above 11"x15" digital painting was entirely made in Manga Studio on a full color layer at 600 dpi using custom brushes I made for the Pattern Brush tool in Manga Studio. (The primary brushes used were the "Oil" and "Bristle" brush variants included in the download.)

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Famous Monsters of Filmland Tee Design

(The tee is now available Preferences under “Folder Path”)

Another screenshot

2. Shut down Manga Studio.

3. Copy the folder included in zip file to your
"(Folder Path)ToolCustombrushTool" folder.

4. Your new pattern brushes should now be visible in your Pattern Brush Tool dropdown list (usually at the bottom of the list).

Another screenshot

If there are any questions, post here and I will try to address them as time permits. I'd like to see whatever you use the brushes for too.

Special thanks to Doug Hills (Manga Studio for Dummies author and a fine cartoonist in his own right) for figuring out how to share brushes and Dave Gibbons for testing Doug and I's theories.


dlincoln83
   dlincoln83 on Aug 11 '10 at 12:07pm
I have always wanted to try Manga studio, is it a big transition from PS?
Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Aug 11 '10 at 12:08pm
Yes. It's a pretty different animal compared to most programs. It has the best digital inking tools IMO. It's worth the effort.
RicoMambo
   RicoMambo on Aug 11 '10 at 12:09pm
hey, thanks for that. i used MS only for line work. i'll try coloring... now:)
Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Aug 11 '10 at 12:10pm
The irony? I do almost all my work traditionally now. :P
RicoMambo
   RicoMambo on Aug 11 '10 at 12:11pm
fck, me to, man, hahahahahahaha
dlincoln83
   dlincoln83 on Aug 11 '10 at 12:13pm
really?? i cant get past how clean and quick working digitally is
Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Aug 11 '10 at 12:17pm
Yup. There's a quality of line and accuracy that digital lacks. I have a Cintiq and have been drawing digitally for a long while, so it's not an entirely uninformed opinion.
speedyjvw
   speedyjvw on Aug 11 '10 at 12:19pm
you are the man
Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Aug 11 '10 at 12:21pm
My painterly work is digital (until I get my hands on some oils):
Infected
Monster Energy Drink Pattern

But my linework is traditional:
Is That a Raygun in Your Pocket
Monster Energy Drink Pattern
Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Aug 11 '10 at 12:22pm
Whoops @ the double post of the Monster image. That's a traditional piece and shouldn't be with the digital one. This is supposed to be the other digital piece:

Benjamin Scrivens
dlincoln83
   dlincoln83 on Aug 11 '10 at 12:25pm
Yeah i am currently fighting the thought that I will never get to the level of linework i want digitally. I attribute my shoddy linework to my current skill level with the digital tools available and my pace at which I like to work - fast n furious. Also after years of drawing on a tablet I now dream of owning a cintiq.
Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Aug 11 '10 at 12:32pm
Cintiqs are kinda garbage. There is a significant amount of distance between the glass surface you draw on and the LCD image underneath. The further from the center you draw, the more there's distance between your cursor and the stylus tip. The cursor offset is noticeable and precision suffers. IE: If I'm watching the cursor instead of the tip of my "brush", in this case the stylus, then I might as well be drawing on an Intuos.

I'm glad I do linework traditionally now. The precision has allowed me to work past a glass ceiling working digitally seemed to hold.

Want a mindfuck? Use a drawing app on a Nintendo DS. No cursor offset. No parallax. It costs ~$100.

Digital artists should have better tools. I wish there were another player to spur innovation. Wacom needs competition.

quick-brown-fox
   quick-brown-fox on Aug 11 '10 at 2:12pm
I'm hoping someone works out how to get a pen to work with an ipad, surely if it can works with a ds. If only I has stylus thin fingers, then I'd save up for one!
Ray Frenden
   Ray Frenden on Aug 11 '10 at 2:41pm
Look up the Pogo Sketch. It's the best option currently, but it is still fatter than I'd like.
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All about me

Ray Frenden is a self-taught illustrator with a penchant for monsters and the macabre.

Drawing from a childhood weaned on horror comics, detective novels, trashy films, and retro sci-fi, his brush and ink work hearkens to an older era.

That juxtaposition of old sensibilities for crafting line and a footing in current color and design trends make Ray’s work unique.