Blowing up an explosion brush
Sometimes, in comics and illustrations, you may just find that something you're drawing needs to be blown up. This brush can also be used for a billowing smoke effect!
Getting ready
Create a new canvas of at least 300 dpi resolution. Make sure that Basic expression color is set to Gray.
How to do it…
The following steps will walk us through the use of the spraying effect options to create a brush that looks like an explosion:
On the blank canvas, mark the general shape of the smoke cloud for the explosion. The following screenshot shows this, done by going to Brush | India ink | Darker bleed and using a pure black color:
Using the India ink or pen tools, continue adding details until you are satisfied with the look of the explosion cloud. As shown in the following screenshot, the Lighter ink tool (which can be found under India ink) with black was used to obtain the gray shading. Then, G-pen was used in both black and white to add more details:
On a new layer, create...
