Today we are going to practice the ways you can master the brush in Photoshop. Moreover we will try to set a proper color to the image and see how the color gamma is important.

So let's begin building our illustration.



I will create a square document.

Now it is time to choose a brush. I choose - 221 - you will also have it for download.



Now let's set the way our brush will react to pen pressure or pen tilt. I just love Digital media for such opportunities. That with only one brush you can create lot of different effects.

Here are my brush settings:















Remember that every new brush option will "eat" your Ram.

Now let's see how we can use our brush. I've just made several strokes with different pressure and tilt.







I will try to do something with what I got right here.

First I will overlay it with a gradient in layer style box (just click x2 times on the layer itself).

The layer mode here is Hard Light.