Dithering Brushes

This page compiles dithering brushes I made for Clip Studio Paint, Krita, and Aseprite. They are all donationware, every donation is appreciated but is not required.

Example dither patterns are displayed at the top including a flower, dot, cross, half tone, and spaced dot pattern. Beneath are example pixel art gradients from dark purple to light blue, and an example pixel art beneath of a city. The gradient was extracted from the sky.

Clip Studio Paint

I made a pixel art brush set for Clip Studio Paint (CSP). You can get it from:

As of April 2022 it has over 7k downloads. The useful feature is it shows previews of what dithering pattern you have selected, and includes a broad range of patterns used in PC-98 games. It contains x22 .sut files which are a CSP format.

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Download CSP Brush Set (1.63MB, ZIP)

Krita

A pixel art brush set for Krita based on the CSP one. You can get it from:

Ko-fi
this page

The x25 brushes in this set are formatted as a .bundle file which can be loaded using the Resources Manager in Setting and selecting Import. Here is a preview of the 25 patterns:

A preview of the 25 dithering patterns in the Krita brush set. It includes a half tone, flower and cross patterns, lines, zigzags, and variable dot patterns.

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Download Krita Brush Set (735KB, ZIP)

Aseprite

Aseprite brushes can be made by:

manually selecting a region and pressing Ctrl+B on an image
loading a user.aseprite-brushes file into Roaming Data (Aseprite Preferences Folder Docs)

The brushes are in .XML format so you can delete entries as you like. The file name needs to be the same.

Dithering patterns in black and white with a red outline to indicate the selection area.

The dithering reference showing what patterns you get is at 500%.

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Download Aseprite Brushes (14KB, ZIP)
Custom brushes sometimes behave a little strangely in Aseprite. You need to have a transparency on your palette as the background colour and a colour of choice as the foreground colour. Sometimes changing brush will not register unless you click on and off a colour.

How to draw pixel dithering gradients

I made a PeerTube video with instructions on how to use the brushes in Clip Studio Paint.

How to make pixel art text and gradients in Clip Studio Paint (CSP)

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Examples of dithering patterns

In this example, the gradient varies from a half tone, to a four dot and cross or flower pattern.

Examples of dithering patterns on pixel art of the sky from the game Custom Mate 3 for the PC-98. Dithering has been applied to the clouds and the blue sky behind them.

In this example, the gradient varies from a half tone, to a four dot and cross or flower pattern. The pattern is applied to convey varying lightness and darkness in the image. The pixel density varies in sparseness.

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