8 Easy Ibis Paint X Customized Brushes WITH STEP-BY-STEP Tutorial

(No. 5 is my absolute favorite!)

Hi guys! I want to start off everything with a simple post on tutorials on customizing your brushes on IbisPaint X (I’ll be calling it IP later on).

If you have visited my Pinterest account, you will notice that I have posted customized brushes for IP.

Just a short disclaimer, I AM NOT AN ARTIST. I am just sharing this idea with you, ’cause why not, right? I am the type of person who likes to give something without asking for anything in return (charot lang!). ~~I am also the type of person who’ll receive whatever good intent people give me. Lol!~~

Now, let’s recreate those brushes for the sake of these tutorials. I will not include those I think are lame (I did post some weird ones, but I won’t let you see them here).

Here is the list of brushes in this very post to be tackled:

Clouds
Chain
Hair
Heart Brush
3D Brush
Cherry Blossoms
Braid
Bubble

Without further delay, let’s jump right in!

1. Clouds

I will be using a 3 x 4 size to work on. You may choose whatever you want.

Let’s start with choosing the brush we will customize for better effect. For this one, let’s use Airbrush (Normal).

Click the arrow on the right.

You will see 7 tabs. Like the one attached below.

The first tab is Basic. And “basically,” it’s just the pattern opacity and the thickness of the brush. You can change that later on. Leave the blending mode as Normal.

The next tab is Fade. I will explain each of these if the public demands–since I’m doing this just for fun. If you haven’t made any changes to the original brush, just leave them be. But if you did, you can reset it in the last tab called Settings.

The third tab is Shape. This will be the most crucial part because the most significant change will happen here when customizing a brush. Follow carefully (or you can experiment on your own).

The brush pattern for the brush that I posted 12 days ago that got 7.39k impressions was Round Brush as of the time I am writing this. And take note, I only placed this on one board! You may notice that the stats say zero outbound clicks, and that’s because there are no links attached.

But today, let’s try Watercolor (Bleed). Change the spacing to 10%, opacity to 15%, and leave everything else as is.

Now, let’s move on to the next tab, Jitter.

Set the following under the Jitter tab, leaving the unmentioned as-is:

Jitter Position, 65%
Jitter Opacity, 30%
Jitter Spacing, 100%
Jitter Angle, 100%
Jitter Brightness, 20%

Okay, let’s move on. Under the Type tab, leave everything as is.

Under the Dynamic tab, I’d like to set everything as 100%. You may, however, do anything you want.

Then lastly, for the Settings, this is more of a tip than part of the tutorial:

It is essential to rename and export it so that you won’t lose it. After exporting, you can reset the brush to still use the original brush and use the customized one after importing the exported file.

Didn’t quite get that? Don’t worry; I’ll explain that in another post (I’ll link it here as soon as I post it).

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So here is the brush we just customized, a sample when used, and the QR Code when exported.

I’d like to see yours, so make sure to leave a comment below or on my Pinterest post so that you can attach a screenshot.

Since I already did a lot of explaining on number one, I will just state which brush we’ll be using to start with and which parts will be changed for the rest below.

2. Chain

Let’s start by choosing the Digital Pen.
Click the arrow on the right.
Make sure to reset the brush first if you want to follow these instructions.

Increase thickness from the Basic Tab.
Change the Brush Pattern to Chain 4 (Color).
Change Spacing to 55%.
Turn Following Rotation, ON.
Rename the brush under the Settings Tab.

Leave all the unmentioned as is.

Here is the brush we just customized, a sample when used, and the QR Code when exported:

I made two pins on Pinterest. The following rotation of the first one that I posted wasn’t turned on. That’s why I made another one.

3. Hair

Let’s start by choosing Pen (Fade).
Click the arrow on the right.
Make sure to reset the brush first if you want to follow these instructions.

Increase the thickness so that you will see the difference when changing some parts.
Set the thickness of start and end to 0%.
Set the Blurring Shape (2nd tab) to Brush 04.
Set the following under the Blurring Section:

Blurring Degree, 60%
Blurring of Start, 60%
Blurring of Middle, 20%
Blurring of End, 20%
Jitter Blurring, 60%

Leave the unmentioned as is.

Tip: Turn the Force Fade on. And the method to Real Time.

Here is the brush we just customized, a sample when used, and the QR Code when exported:

This brush is way different from the one I posted on Pinterest, but you can always check it out here.

HAIR– this is the one I posted last month.

You can comment below which of the two brushes you prefer!

But if you ask me, I’d like the two combined! Why? Use the other one as highlight. You’ll get it if you import and compare both brushes.

4. Heart Brush

Choose Felt Tip Pen (Soft).

Let’s start from the third tab.
Change the Brush Pattern to Glitter Heart.
Change the Spacing to 150%
Change the Pattern Opacity to 100%

Let’s move onto the next tab.
Change the Jitter Position to 100%
Change all from Jitter Thickness to Jitter Angle to 20%
And just like before, leave all the other unmentioned as is.