DAUB Brushes vs MyPaint Brushes

DAUB Brushes sells downloadable natural-media brush sets for Clip Studio Paint, Affinity, Procreate, and Photoshop. Its collections include watercolor, oil, pastel, charcoal, chalk, ink, pencil, and marker tools for Clip Studio Paint, while Affinity sets cover essentials, pigment simulation, comic brushes, inking, halftone patterns, and dry media. Procreate's Expression set contains 278 tools, and Photoshop's Pro Set is described as 100 natural-media tools and 24 papers. The Clip Studio Paint Markers set supports pen pressure, tilt, and axis rotation; Watercolors offers blending effects and real paper textures. Prices include a free 12-tool Pencils set and one-time purchases such as Markers for €3.99, paid once and Watercolors for €6.99, paid once. The Clip Studio Paint Super Bundle costs €19.99, paid once and includes 572+ tools and 60+ textures. Sets use a single-user license. Artwork made with the brushes may be used commercially without a time or usage limit, but the brushes themselves cannot be sublicensed, redistributed, or included in commercial products. The maker identifies himself as Paolo Limoncelli and says he released the first DAUB set in 2014.

MyPaint Brushes is a free downloadable brush-data package for MyPaint and other applications that use libmypaint. The master branch contains brushes intended for libmypaint 2.x. For libmypaint versions below 1.5, the project recommends using the v1.3.x branch or a v1.x release instead; listed releases include v1.3.1 for libmypaint 1.3 or later and v2.0.2 for libmypaint 1.5 or later. The brush files use the .myb format, and commercial use is permitted. Application developers can locate the brush directory through pkg-config: C and C++ programs use the MYPAINT_BRUSHES_DIR macro, while other languages can use the brushesdir variable. Building and installing the package uses autogen.sh, configure, make, and make install. Historical SCons scripts are included for SCons 2.x, but do not work with SCons 3. The official brush data uses public domain or CC0 1.0 licensing. Installation scripts and other non-brush-data components use GPL-2+ licensing. The v2.0.2 release note says its changes reduce preview icon file sizes and that v2.0.x brushes generally need libmypaint 1.5 or later to work correctly.