{"id":250,"date":"2022-05-18T21:35:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2022-07-18T20:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:44:44","slug":"shale-brush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/drawing\/shale-brush\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Procreate Brush for Everything: Shale Brush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A default Procreate brush, the <strong>Shale Brush <\/strong>is perfect for drawing, blending, and erasing. It can accomplish so much that I use it for pretty much everything. It is without a doubt my default brush. Its only weakness is that it doesn&#8217;t taper very well, so when I draw or color hair, I use the free <a href=\"https:\/\/procreate.brushes.work\/free-gouache-ish-brush-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gouache-ish Brush<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shale Brush x Gouache-ish Brush<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The ultimate combo. Unexpectedly, the Shale Brush is <em>magnificent<\/em> for blending\/smudging. Combined with using the Gouache-ish brush for drawing, filling in, amd smudging the pointy parts (hair), art with a really nice texture can be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My examples mostly include anime character fan art, but hopefully it displays well the blending abilities of Shale Brush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=230\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"230\" data-src=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-546-874x1024.png\" alt=\"Arafune Tetsuji from World Trigger\" class=\"wp-image-230 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-546-874x1024.png 874w, https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-546-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-546.png 1748w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 874px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 874\/1024;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-546-874x1024.png\" alt=\"Arafune Tetsuji from World Trigger\" class=\"wp-image-230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-546-874x1024.png 874w, https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-546-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-546.png 1748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption>Arafune Tetsuji from World Trigger, using Shale Brush and Gouache-ish Brush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"238\" data-src=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-287-874x1024.png\" alt=\"Arafune Tetsuji from World Trigger\" class=\"wp-image-238 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-287-874x1024.png 874w, https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-287-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-287.png 1748w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 874px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 874\/1024;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-287-874x1024.png\" alt=\"Arafune Tetsuji from World Trigger\" class=\"wp-image-238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-287-874x1024.png 874w, https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-287-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled_Artwork-287.png 1748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption>Arafune Tetsuji from World Trigger, using Shale Brush and Gouache-ish Brush, as well as default procreate brushes for the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A default Procreate brush, the Shale Brush is perfect for drawing, blending, and erasing. It can accomplish so much that I use it for pretty much everything. It is without a doubt my default brush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drawing","tag-brushes","tag-procreate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteorlatte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}