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Warning: spent $200 on a premium art brush pack I barely use now
I bought this huge bundle of digital brushes from a popular artist last month, 50 brushes for like $200. I thought they would unlock some secret technique or save me hours of work, you know? But the thing is, most of them just do the same thing as the free default brushes in Procreate. After 2 weeks I only actually use 3 of them, the rest are just gathering dust in my folder. The worst part is I convinced myself I needed them to level up my art, but really I just got caught up in the hype watching speedpaints where the artist used them. Now I'm back to a basic round brush and feel dumb for spending that cash. Has anyone else dropped money on brush packs that turned out to be a waste?
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samwalker7d ago
Hard disagree. You paid for a professional toolset and that matters whether you use every single brush or not. That artist spent real time curating those textures and settings - you're paying for their eye and workflow, not just the brush strokes. Plenty of painters buy expensive paint sets and only use three colors, nobody calls them wasteful. And honestly those 3 brushes you do use are probably better than any default option because someone with experience dialed them in. Maybe you'll circle back to the others later when your style changes or you hit a different project. People spend way more on gadgets and games they never touch, at least these are for your actual craft.
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david_rivera47d ago
kinda like a chef who owns 50 knives but only touches three.
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the_henry7d ago
Nah but the real issue here is nobody's talking about how those packs are basically a tax on beginners. You don't know what brushes actually work for your style until you've been painting for years, so you buy these "pro" packs thinking they'll make you better. They won't. Most of those brushes are just slight variations of the same basic shape anyway. I've been doing digital art for 8 years and I could probably delete 90% of my brush library and not notice.
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