It seems artists haven’t yet realized the full usefulness and versatility of GIMP’s parametric brushes, especially when paired with the proper dynamics.

The Parametric Brush and Painting Techniques ¶ Probably the choice, between raster and/or parametric brush, is done by the kind of task, the painter’s style and of his/her artistic background/knowledge/taste, etc. The raster brush is also versatile and has great pictorial qualities, but is more complex to build because it is managed as an image. The parametric brush is a vector brush and it has the great possibilities and flexibility for many different tasks and branches (graphic design, photography, digital painting, etc…) I am writing a dedicated article about the GIMP brushes and I have pasted the short intro about them: The scope of this article mainly demonstrates the quality and possibility of parametric brushes.

GIMP provides two very different types of brushes: the parametric (.vbr) and raster (.gbr and. A fast sample made in 2013 by Americo Gobbo with Dry Media paint dynamics and parametric brushes.

Smoke brushes for gimp