Look, sometimes being an artist is about spending nearly an hour painstakingly drawing each link of the chains in your art WHILE telling yourself "you know, this is exactly the sort of thing a custom brush would be great for. I bet there's a free one too" and finish drawing them by hand anyway.

That is EVERYTHING about being an artist. Hacks go for the Photoshop brush. I don’t care if it’s faster, drawing is BETTER.

as a world builder my version is naming each town and village in a kingdom im making knowing full well that names generators are free and easy

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I can never get them to look right unless I make them myself.

LMAO this sounds HORRIBLE. Anyway, I do this.

Sometimes doing things manually is just cathartic like that *lol* But when speed matters and a brush would help, often times I like to make my own. Because then it's in my style

Worse, when a brush exists and YOU'RE THE ONE WHO MADE IT but you STILL draw the stupid things by hand. (Bubbles... so many bubbles.) 😭

i . listen. not the same thing as chains but for this ennard art i did back when sister location was first revealed / ennard's full design was revealed (much younger artist then). i drew and shaded all of this by hand despite the fact that now, CSP has free brushes in the store for this exact thing.