Getting a traditional watercolour style

This experiment came out of hardware limitations: I downloaded beautiful textured grease pencil brushes only to discover that using them made my laptop slow down to a crawl. And so I took the grease pencil ‘Pencil’ brush and modified the settings until I had four unique brushes, and through a process of layering them on top of one another and using a paper texture as a background image, I got a result I am so proud of.

Scroll through to see my process:

I made this tutorial explaining how I made all the brushes, what settings I changed, and how I use them:

 

You can download my brushes for free HERE!

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