Dropped $60 on a premium brush pack for Procreate last week and it saved me hours on just one commission piece

The textures were so close to real oil paint that I finished a portrait in half my usual time, has anyone else had luck with spending a bit extra on tools that actually speed up your workflow?

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the_mia5d ago

Spent $35 on a single knife sharpener for my kitchen once. Thing paid for itself in two months. Same idea with your brushes. Tools that cut time are worth the cash. But here's the catch. Most people buy tools for the wrong reason. They think expensive gear makes them better. It doesn't. It makes you faster at what you already know. Your commission piece proves that. You had the skill down. The brushes just removed the friction. That's the real metric. Not quality but speed.

wade7675d ago

Right there with you on that. Grabbed a good set of brushes a few years back, not expensive but a step up from the cheap pack. They didn't change how I painted, but they made blending so much faster I could finish pieces in half the time. Sold more work just because I could crank it out quicker. Same thing with a decent pair of scissors for cutting stencils, saved me hours of frustration. Tools don't teach you anything, they just speed up what you already know how to do.