Ink Bleed for Affinity

MAKE YOUR ART LOOK LIKE IT CRAWLED OUT OF A VINTAGE HORROR COMIC

Ink, shade, distress, and study your way into the gritty look and surprisingly efficient working methods of classic horror comics.

With Ink Bleed, you get 15 horror-inspired inkers, 5 shaders and washes, and 5 defect brushes designed to help clean digital artwork feel rougher, darker, and more alive.

Everything you need to ink, shade, and distress your work in a vintage horror-comic style.

• 15 distressed inkers. A full set of rough, gritty ink brushes inspired by old horror comics and monster magazines.
• 5 shaders and washes. Add dirty halftone shading, line shading, stipple texture, soft washes, and hard washes to build tone and atmosphere.
• 5 defect brushes. Rough up clean digital artwork with printed-looking flaws, worn edges, and distressed imperfections.
• Inspired by vintage horror comics and magazines. Built around the look and feel of EC Comics, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Creepy, Eerie, and other classic horror reference material.
• Includes an inking practice sheet. Study the strokes, try the brushes, and practice building your own horror-comic textures and effects.
• Includes Working in the Dark. A practical guide that turns stories from EC Comics, Warren, Eerie Publications, and other horror-comic history into lessons on shipping faster, working with constraints, building repeatable creative systems, and finishing more work.
  

Most "horror" or "comic" ink brushes are either too clean (modern, even lines with a frustratingly smooth plastic look) or too generic, with over-the-top, scratchy grunge texture applied to everything.

Ink Bleed was built differently. Rooted in the pre-Code horror comics of roughly 1948–1955, printed hot and cheap on four-color newsprint. The result is inking that feels like it survived the Comics Code instead of being born after it.

What's Included

• 15 distressed inkers (fine crow-quill to broad gritty filler)
• 5 shaders & washes (Dirty Halftone, Dirty Line, Dirty Stipple, Soft Ink Wash, Hard Ink Wash)
• 5 bonus defect brushes (Light Ink Damage, Medium Ink Damage, Heavy Ink Damage, Ink Distress, Ink Speckle)
• Install & More Guide
• [EBOOK] Working in the Dark: Lessons from the People Who Built Horror Comics
• Ink Bleed Practice Sheet
• Ink Bleed Reference Sheet

Compatibility

• Affinity Designer Pixel Persona only. Tested in the latest Affinity by Canva release. These are raster brushes, not vector brushes.
• Versions for Procreate and Photoshop sold separately

File Formats

• .afbrushes (Affinity brushes)
  
• .af (practice files)
• PDF guide