Brushes have come a long way (A LONG LONG WAY!), especially if you look at history! The first “brushes” used by man were simply sticks, split palm leaves, whalebone or even shavings of wood that they would use to spread their pigment and animal fat as early as 40,000 years ago (Don’t hate. Cavemen had to use something to make those awesome paintings on the walls of caves!).
The traditional paint brushes we see today were first made with animal hair, often of long-hair hog bristle. Other animals used for their hair include squirrel, goat, ox, badger, horse-hair, and sable (a member of the mink family – these brushes are actually considered one of the best to use for watercolor painting). The reason for the different hair types is because each possess unique characteristics and are used with the type of paint that it works best with. More recently we swapped out animal hair with synthetic bristles, which is nice lol. However, these days they are digital! Which is awesome! Life is made much easier for a lot of designers simply by the availability of brushes on the internet!
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