Cryptiq vs GIMPressionist

As GIMPressionist now has adopted all of Cryptiq's functionality, it might be in place with a small introduction to how to achive similar results. Here's a few paragraphs from a mail I sent;

Hmm, I'm aware that it might look a bit complicated. Hopefully I'll (or
someone else will) get around to write a decent tutorial soon. If you
haven't already, have a look at www.thegimp.com, which had an article with
a walkthru-style introduction a few months ago. 

If I recall correctly, I added a Preset to the latest version, named
MarbleMadness (named after an ancient C64 game) which comes quite close.

Things to remember when trying to simulate Cryptiq;

- Select a .ppm brush (e.g. ball.ppm)
- Set Brush-relief to 100.0 (when using the .ppm brushes, relief is analogous to highlight)
- Use only 1 orientation
- Use plenty of sizes, 15-20 at least, ranging from min 5-6 to 30-40
- Use Adaptive size-selection

And if you want;

- Drop Shadows with approx 5.0 darkening
- Stroke density to as-much-as-possible ;-)

Hope this helps a bit. :)