crayon brush, pressure sensitive?

Hi all,
I've been looking for a realistic crayon brush for some time now,
without real success so far. If possible, it should also be pressure
sensitive (Wacom Intuos).

The closest I came to was the crayon in Artrage 2.22, but that is
useless for PS. It should reproduce the fat, waxy appearance of a
classical crayon, not as fine grained as most chalk tools.

I've asked in cgap and apw already and got some motivating answers,
but am still looking for a ready-to-use tool.

Any hints?

Thanks in advance!

U.

 

you can make any black and white image into a paint brush
so take a screen shot of the brush from the other program or make your own
image
then use the tools in the palette to customize it

you can do something called dual brush as well
for example:: the crayon stroke has two parts
the smoother texture transparent line would just be a low opacity round
brush
and then the part with little bits of waxy buildups would be the second
brush a texture brush set to wide spacing and set to scatter

 

P.S> any and all the brushes can be set to pressure sensitive
open the brush palette and set it there

 

KW,
thanks for this advice! Although I am not yet quite sure of what to do
with the scanned / captured "foreign" crayon in the phase that you
call

I'll just give it a try and play a bit with it.

I guess I'll have to set up the two components separately and then
fuse them to that dual brush, right? I've read the manual and gathered
tons of tutorials with the result that I end up seeing no forest, just
trees...

Thanks and cheers,

U.

 

with the scanned / captured "foreign" crayon in the phase that you

I am between versions kept CS and new to CS3

OK I just went to CS3 and could not find EDIT>define brush preset

of course they attempt to simplify our lives by confusing us
ahh changes.........
I had to choose SHOW ALL MENUS first



or you can change what shows in the menus in MENUS...

when you have an image you want to use as a brush,
or part of an image in a selection
EDIT>define brush preset

it will add the shape as a brush tip

here is one I use frequently
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=287


http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/brush7/crayon/crayon.htm

a quick Google turns up already made ones
http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=21174

always check Adobe Studio Exchange too

lots of people share shapes, brushes, frames, styles

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1226518