Looking for a particular type of brush

[OurJud]

I began using Krita some weeks ago, after seeing it mentioned on here, and for some time suspected I preferred it to GIMP, but then when I was unable to get a particular effect/look to my work I switched back to GIMP and now prefer it to Krita.

However, Krita does have a few brushes that GIMP doesn't and I'm trying to find out if I can get something similar.

Unfortunately I don't know what you would call them, or whether they're 'animated', but their icon is a pencil tip and they're used for creating what I think are fractals. As you draw with them, very fine fractals will branch off creating nice wispy patterns. The others just seem to be variations on this.

I browsed the GIMP brushes on deviant art and found a few Fractal Brushes packs, and the previews showed what seemed to be the exact same effect, but when I installed them and went to use them, they're simply pre-rendered stamps of a fractal pattern, rather than a free-hand brush.

This is the kind of thing, but I need the brush to be free-hand rather than pre-defined stamps as these are.

Fractal Brushes

If anyone can offer any advice or links to the sort of thing I'm looking for it would be great.

[Espermaschine]

What do you want to do with these brushes ?

Paint ? Or use them as a "stamp" ?

[rich2005]

I think that the effect you want is not really possible in Gimp.

Something like the brush stroke at the top of this: http://i.imgur.com/AZda0qz.jpg that is an application 'FlamePainter'

What you can do is use brush dynamics something like this

   

Experiment making some brushes. 

Right side the brush. This is a strip of dots, four layers with dots offset each layer. Saved as a gih brush.

Left side, the brush used with some brush dynamics in effect.

[OurJud]

(02-26-2017, 07:13 PM)Espermaschine Wrote: What do you want to do with these brushes ?

Paint ? Or use them as a "stamp" ?

Paint, but I thought I'd made that clear with this.

Me Wrote:[...] but I need the brush to be free-hand rather than pre-defined stamps as these are.

Rich, that's not quite the effect but I'll have a look at playing with the dynamics. It may be that I just have to go back to using Krita on the occasions when I need this particular brush.

Thanks all.