Over the last few days I have been downloading a variety of digital brush sets and playing around with them to see how they might be used in my work. Many of the sets include brushes that are for certain effects such as water, fur or skin and others are pattern and texture based. These textures may be used put perhaps not consistently so that patterns are not obvious. There were two brush sets that are created to reflect a more realistic approach to real brushes. The two sets comprise of a watercolour set and an oil based set. These are going to take some time getting used to but both might get used to create both final images and rougher images within the book. This has been an experimental week and although I don't feel as those the project has moved much further although progress has been made. This comes through realising that instead of beginning with the final images as planned I will make a new programme. This shall show each of the images being taken to the same rough stage prior to choosing the images to be worked up and in what fashion. This should allow for a more consistent look and give me more time to experiment and get used to how these new brushes might combine with others to get effects that I want. This should also lead to me being able to pick out the two or three strongest compositions to take to a final stage. The main issue with the watercolour brushes is that a strong initial layout is required before using them to paint a final image, a few examples of the experiments are shown below.
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| Testing palette knifes within brush set for mixing paints |
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| Testing how to make gouges in paint |
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| Testing what paint might look like for ocean scene |
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| Testing watercolour brushes |
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| Testing ocean scene to compare against other image |
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