Last Friday I attended a launch event by Evan Marcell where he introduced Superbrushes, a set of new Photoshop brushes that he has created for use to paint and create digital images. Marcell created the brushes by taking pictures of textures around Cleveland, editing them, and preparing them as brush files to be loaded into Adobe Photoshop. The abstract brush forms provide a unique shape, texture, and pattern that make it easy to make great images and graphics.
Most of the time we use the standard brushes that come with Photoshop, but Superbrushes introduces a new exciting set of brushes to try. One interesting thing about Superbrushes is that the process of how the brushes were created was through the phenomon of the “butterfly effect,” where one action affects another action. One brush created another brush. This new brush was used to make another brush, and so on. Marcell says that the project and process of reusing a brush to make a new brush was inspired by breakbeat music, where beats are cutup and reused to make new beats.
The goal of the project is to enable artists to make more work, and to appreciate the brush. Marcell writes on the Superbrushes website, “.. artists are possibly the greatest appreciators/would-be art collectors if we didn’t feel obligated to put all of our funds right back into our art. SUPERBRUSHES brushes are beautiful compositions in themselves, enabling artists to fuel their art in appreciation of each gorgeous brush as an artwork in itself.”
At the launch event we were given direction to a webpage where we could download a set of 25 free Superbrushes. We watched a demo of how to install and setup the brushes, which was followed by a live contest – a Superbrushdown, where the audience members who brought laptops, had about 8 minutes to make an image. After the time was up, the group voted by clapping, and I am proud to say that I won(!), and got a prize of the full pack of 125 superbrushes, which usually sells for $20.00 off of the Superbrushes site..
Marcell is working to build a Superbrush community. The website is currently featuring pieces made with Superbrushes on the website. You can download a set of free 5 superbrushes to try, and then submit your image to be featured in the gallery. Why use ordinary brushes when you can use Superbrushes?
Image Source
http://evanmarcell.wix.com/superbrushes
Links:
http://evanmarcell.wix.com/superbrushes