a few updates in boredom
I have just discovered how to make my own brushes for the gimp and it’s really quite simple. I used Graphic Converter to get the basic brush (since the font recognizer in gimp 2.0 doesn’t recognize 97% of my fonts) which in the case of the header above was Edwardian Script in a combination of our initials. I will be wasting a lot of time making brushes in the future.