How can i make foliage brushes look more organic with scatter settings?

[AdamVH]

I’ve been trying to get better at creating custom brushes in my digital painting software, but I’m hitting a wall with how to effectively use the scatter settings. No matter how I adjust the jitter and spacing, my brushstrokes just don’t look organic or varied enough for the textured foliage I’m trying to paint.

[Aurora_M]

Tried cranking position jitter and a bit of random rotation, but the leaves still bunch up in neat little patches. It looks more like a stamp than a breeze through a hedge.

[PatrickLL]

I fiddled with spacing and density and even used a second pass with a different texture; tradeoff was that it looked noisy or patchy depending on zoom level.

[MarkP]

Could the real problem be how you're applying strokes, not the brush itself? Maybe you’re sticking to the same angle and layering passes in a way that cancels the randomness?

[Paul_L]

I drifted to just stamping tiny leaf shapes from a different brush and blending; looked decent from afar, then I panicked and overworked it. Not a solution, just a detour.