Black Ink

Brush safari A new kind of paint program, with non-traditional brushes and a focus on customisation and experimentation.

Compared to more traditional programs like Photoshop and Painter, Black Ink’s brushes feel like taming a wild animal. It’s hard to gauge if this would offer much of a benefit during straightforward representative drawing, but the unpredictability of the line work can be great for designing organic shapes and creatures that feature a lot of unexpected angles.

If you need to make a photo-realistic portrait of an astronaut for class, say, Black Ink probably isn’t going to give you an edge over your usual software. But now, suppose you need to draw the crystal-based alien inhabitants of the planet our astronaut gets stranded on. Black Ink time, baby! The dynamic nature of the brushes is perfect because it puts variation and nuance throughout the shapes.