Frankentoon Studio vs MyPaint Brushes

Frankentoon Studio creates illustration tools for artists, including brush packs, graphics, educational material and design templates. Its Procreate catalog lists 15 kits and more than 700 brushes, and the studio also offers products for Affinity apps and Clip Studio Paint. A free Procreate Starter Pack includes 10 brushes. Listed purchases include Sketch Kit for Procreate at $12, paid once purchase and Dreadlines for Clip Studio Paint at $12, paid once purchase. Sketch Kit requires Procreate 5.3+ and Apple Pencil. The studio says its Procreate packs permit personal and commercial use, including client work and products. Brush files work on iPads that support Procreate, though newer iPads and more RAM are recommended for large canvases and complex brushes. Procreate brush files do not open directly in Adobe Photoshop, which uses.abr files. Product downloads begin immediately after purchase, and future updates are included at no extra cost. The studio says it has made these tools since 2016 and publishes tutorials and guides for Procreate and Affinity workflows.

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.