Once you have a copy, drag it to the new set. If you don’t want to remove the selected brush from its current set, you can duplicate the brush, using Copy Brush (found in the Library marking menu).

To add a brush to your new brush set, tap-hold a brush to select it, then drag the brush into the set.

The new brush set will appear below the currently active brush set in the Brush Library.

To create a brush set, in the Brush Library, tap-hold the marking menuĪnd select New Brush Set.

After that Sketchbook won’t let you make or import more.If you have created new brushes, you might want to create a new brush set to help organize them.Ĭreating a new brush set in Sketchbook Pro for desktop Keep in mind that 18 brush sets is the maximum allowed.

There’s a good clear video on how to make your own brushes for Sketchbook, and a comics pro shares his inking brushes settings. That’s it, that’s all I could find that proved to work. So for others who may hanker after a few more Sketchbook brushes, here’s my little survey of some of the free brush set addons…

Many have noted that Autodesk Sketchbook‘s brush range is paltry on its desktop PC version - compared to the iPad version or to the oceans of custom brushes available for Adobe Photoshop. Just choose the Windows 7 drivers for it, and they work fine… So I blew the dust off it, and found there are 64-bit drivers for it that work on Windows 8.1. I’d forgotten I’d got the 6″ x 9″ (effective) USB version. I was spurred into thinking about 2D sketch/paint software by finding my old Wacom Intuos 2 pressure-sensitive pad and stylus in a drawer. And it arguably has better brushes, provided you don’t want thick glistening wet gloopy oils. It’s not Photoshop either, but it’s much nicer to learn and use than Painter. So I’m taking another look at Autodesk Sketchbook (which you can currently pick up on Amazon UK for a mere £20 ). And yet I find that Photoshop, near-perfect as it is, just doesn’t make for a natural sketching application - no matter how many nicely-tweaked custom brushes I load into it. Should I install that old version of Painter, perhaps? I always wanted to like Painter, the natural media painting software. I’m six months in with my new PC, and it’s time to install some of the bits and pieces that were not absolutely vital back in a chilly early January.

Autodesk sketchbook brushes