Flash brush

[pmartin]

There's quite a few artists in here, so I thought that I should ask.

Like anyone who draws stuff I've been *developing* my style since I was a kid, and at some point of my life I decided that one of the things I want to be is a Graphic Novel artist, and when I decided that it was near my 16 birthday, so I asked my mother to get me India Ink and a Winsor & Newton's Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Brushes.  The first drawing I made with that brush, OH GOD, it was love at first sight. It was absolutely beautiful.
Sometime later I started doing some digital art, mostly because my sisters DESTROYED my incredibly expensive brush in cold blood. I had a tablet once, but it was also slain, and shit, I've worked to pay for that, so I became pretty proficient in drawing with a mouse (eeew).

Anyway, after years of searching for a software that could reproduce the look of the love of my life, that series 7 brush, when drawing with a mouse (No pressure sensitivity). I found Flash. OKay, it's not QUITE the same. It's not even close, but it looks good. It actually looks like a brush, with the width variation and all. But Flash Isn't actually made for digital art.

So what I'm asking is: Do you guys know of any software that has a brush similar to flash? I mean, I just want something that is more art focused. It can be vetorial. I don't mind. And yeah, just remembered, one of the things that makes the flash brush so good is the 'Smoothing' function. I mean, it's great if you have to draw with the mouse.

And here's a quick drawing I've made with flash so you have a better Idea of what I'm looking for:

[Ilyich]

Personally, I hate the look of Flash's anti-aliasing and total lack of any color correction tools, so you're right to look for something else. Being a tablet user, though, I can't really recall what works well with a mouse (nothing? ). That said, Corel Painter is probably the best tool for creating beautiful tradtional-looking digital art. I'm not sure if there's a width variation if you work with a mouse, but you can get something similar by using flat and calligraphic brushes. Nothing beats ink with a good brush, though, so if you have a scanner - traditional is still the way to go. How hard is it to buy a brush, anyway?

[GarageGothic]

I kinda like the vector brushes in Inkscape - I've done a lot of sketches in that one. Also the smoothing function is pretty good if a bit finicky (on high settings it usually requires a few undo's before you get a curve quite right). And it's free.

Edit: Oh, and if you want to do graphic novels, I recommend checking out Manga Studio - very useful tools for setting up the page and a shit-ton of brush types to choose from.

[InCreator]

You'll love this.
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/sketch-paint/large/

on the upper left corner, there's download too if you prefer