What do you use?

[AiraJean]

What do you use to make all the 'fancy' swirls and such on brushes? I made a few brushes for my use out of a really swirly font and chopped off parts of it, added a slight shadow and made it to a brush.
When i say swirls i mean things like http://celestial-star.net/brushes/download/75/ and other similar designs.

[Blackstone]

I believe that set of brushes was made out of fonts as well. At least it looks very similar to a font that I know of...

However, when I make swirls and such for my own personal use, I normally draw and then scan them in, or I use Adobe Illustrator to make them. Or a combination. Sometimes I will draw something I like, scan it in, then "digitalize" it by tracing over the designs with Illustrator.

[AiraJean]

That is ahat i did for a few brushes i made. Any suggestions on fonts to use?

[Blackstone]

Well, I can't really name an specific fonts (like I said, I draw and vector my swirls), but I always download my fonts from http://www.dafont.com/. There are some pretty awesome fonts there, I'm sure you can find some that would make good swirls.

[AiraJean]

I plan on trying out the drawing method first lol i would rather do it that way so they are my original work. Do you know of any tutorials for pspx to change them to vectors?

[Blackstone]

For PSPX, use the pen tool to trace over them. ^^ That's all I do in Illustrator, trace over them. I've done it in PSPX as well, before I got Adobe. It works pretty well, though it takes a bit of practice to get the pen tool down.

[AiraJean]

Thanks I will probably work on one latter tonight. I will have to post what i come up with

[AiraJean]

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8269/wfql9.gif

how does it look?

[Blackstone]

O.O

That's lovely! I would certainly download and use a brush pack like that, and I know another who probably would as well.

Very, very nice. ^^

[AiraJean]

Thanks now to try and make it into a vector o.0 i can feel the headach already!