Eraser Tool: 'Pencil: Pink Tip Eraser' - Emulates the feel of an attached pencil eraser, with a slight grainy texture and medium flow. Eraser' - an eraser which duplicates the feel and texture of the Stumpy Pencil, so you can erase an retain the textured quality of the line. Brush Tool: 'Pencil: Graphite 30 pt.' - This one has a gray color included to emulate the look of a soft graphite pencil.

Good for tightening up, or when the chiseled head of the Stumpy Pencil isn't working. Brush Tool: 'Pencil: Round 3 pt.' - A similar pencil, but with a different shaped Brush.

It's fast, textured, with a chiseled shape. Brush Tool: 'Pencil: Stumpy 6 pt.' - The original tool, slightly modified but otherwise as it was. I present this new revised version to you today. So I continue to tweak and refine and expand on it, evolving it and making it more effective with time. It's texture is convincing enough that I have actually used it to make revisions to actual scanned pencil drawings.īut, as with any digital tool that emulates a analog tool, it's never perfect. I even use it for finishing when I want the final output to have a rougher look. I go to it first when I am sketching out ideas in Photoshop. Well it's still one of my most used brushes. My Photoshop effort became quite popular, and even in the long interval when I was not posting, I would still get feedback from people who had found it while searching for Photoshop tools. Flat, soft and dark, crudely sharpened with a knife, a stumpy pencil lays down such an effortless line that it is a great tool for thinking on paper. I started this blog a year or two ago with a Photoshop brush for a stumpy pencil, my favorite drawing tool.

Stumpy pencil brush