Firstly,

I would like everyone to watch this simple playback of a illustration done in DS colours by young hero Whit Brachna (aka Mr. Blonde)

http://colors.brombra.net/details/5597-yet_another_girl_by_mr.blonde.php

A talented young artist, having established a fearsome reputation and style and poise already in the concept world.

One thing to take home is, if you need to paint better, faster, or more effectively. Paint slower. Make your strokes more calculated.

As mentioned before, paint slower to paint faster. Make less random marks or scribblings.... And like rowing a boat effectively, you can pull through water with less effort, but high efficiency, instead of paddling yoru boat with a thimble in hand

Anticipate your value structure, becasue once the forms and composition are all set right, detail is like the final gloss coating of chocolate sprinkling on a perfect mocha cappucinno.

Lastly. Whit proves you really really only need one Uber brush. No fancy gimmicks. No fancy textured brush. Just one brush.

The hard round brush

(i'll let you think on that one)

Yeah, go for the DS.

Although, in my ramblings, what I wanted to say was you only need one simple brush. The hard round brush to paint anything

koshime:

Lastly. Whit proves you really really only need one Uber brush. No fancy gimmicks. No fancy textured brush. Just one brush.

The hard round brush

(i'll let you think on that one)

Except for the fact that he's using two brushes in that video. One soft, one hard.

lol!! 

hey he must be me! i use two brushes too... is it????  

Try painting with the program dude.

It is basically a circular shape (like the default photoshop brush) which can change its hardness and opacity,

I'm supposing for marketing purposes (like how someone will list a feature of obvious things on a car - has 1-4 doors, two swivel mounted windscreen wipers
, front and back windscreen compared to a different car manufacturer that boasts - alloy wheels as standard, bluetooth hands free kit and GPS navigation)
 

OK, let me see if I can simplify it for ya instead of spam

1. DS - uses only ONE brush. It is circular - and you can adjust its opacity and softness around its edge.
2. Photoshop - similarly, you only need one brush. The default hard round brush. Adjusting the opacity, gives you the blending of mid tones, and if you desire a more airbrush feel > head into brushes, reduce the hardness to have soft edges.
   

i.e you only need One hard round brush to do anything for a high end level approach to most work

The reason why it works is because of the painters  fundamental grasp of basics, and it ultimately forces you to just paint.

The custom brushes and texture brushes have their uses, perhaps to add that extra dirt, a bunch of foilage or shapes, In the end, a digital painter probably goes full circle and returns to where they started from but at a (hopefully) higher end level 

koshime:

1. DS - uses only ONE brush. It is circular - and you can adjust its opacity and softness around its edge.

So you agree with me then. I'm glad that's settled.