This is the entry for this week’s Illustration Friday, done in five or six coffee breaks.
This week I also tidied up my photoshop brushes folder and got rid of about the 80% that have been sitting around for years, unused.

I eventually ended up with the handful I’m more likely to use, and I know it’s quite a nerdy thing to say but my brushes are all well ordered now and that makes me happy.
Among the few brushes I saved there’s a lovely one I forgot about, which gives a nice water-colour stroke. It’s the one I used for the background.

I’d like to thank the guy I stole it from, but I honestly forgot where I got every single one of them: colleagues, other artists that shared them on their blogs and such.
I feel kind of guilty, brushes are quite a personal thing to share and I’ve been using other people’s stuff quite lavishly without the chance to give any credit to their creators.

So now I’d like to share a few of them.

This is the one I used for the Background. Download

This one I used to give a bit of texture to the tree. Download

I use these two pretty often for painting in general, they are “watery” and soft at the same time. Download

There, Internet, you can’t say I always take without giving anything back.