Tried a new brush pack for my fantasy art and it cut my work time in half

I was working on a big piece with a lot of clouds and light effects, which usually takes me forever. For years I just used the basic soft round brush in Procreate and built up layers. Last week I got a specific pack from a painter I follow, called 'Atmospheric Brushes'. The cloud brushes alone let me block in shapes in maybe 20 minutes that used to take me over an hour of careful blending. The texture and flow are just built in, so I can focus on the art instead of fighting the tool. Has anyone else found a brush set that totally changed their process for a specific style?

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max4892mo ago

Right? It's crazy how much time you can waste just trying to make the tool do what you want. Makes you wonder what other basic tools we're all stubbornly using for no good reason.

margaret6922mo ago

Like the whole Microsoft Office suite, honestly.

robin4891mo ago

Yeah that "stubbornly using" thing is everywhere. I mean we keep using bad apps or complicated remotes just because we already know how they work. It's like we'd rather deal with a known pain than learn something new.