Funnily enough, I’m not sure I’ve ever consciously tried to avoid The Streakiness. I don’t really have a single approach to digital painting, so my results vary a lot. Behold two extremes:
The general answer to how I blend is with the blending tool (or the equivalent in various programs), or by using brushes that naturally blend strokes (such as Blending Marker or the bristle brushes in ArtRage). It sounds too obvious, though, so I thought about it more. More specifically, then, there are a number of approaches that one can use to land somewhere between the picture above-left and the picture above-right.
The concern isn’t fine-grained texture, in this case, but fairly large highlights or shadows that clarify the form of the face. The fact that the highlight/shadow takes on an irregular shape (triangle, v-shape, little rectangle) that doesn’t look like a streak goes a long way in drawing attention away from any remaining streakiness elsewhere, I think.
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This works if the shadows are strong and the plane changes very distinct, and you just need a little extra something to suggest that the face is a little rounder than a bunch of flat planes. Streakiness is avoided altogether because you’re relying on big shadows instead of finely painted gradation of shadow to show the overall form. With a big soft-edged airbrush you can dab a little colored light here and there to create gradients on otherwise flat areas.
The airbrushed/overlaid color variation is directionally independent of the strokes, and the streaky strokes, besides being small, vary in width, length, direction, and shape. When you zoom out and look at it, the streaks don’t stand out too much.
This picture is streakiness. If you layer a ton of semi-transparent brushstrokes all over one another you eventually get a gradient when viewed from far away/at small magnification. (Close up, though…)
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I like pencils in real life because you can shade with a lot of control with respect to pressure and direction. Digital pencils are great because you can do that over digital paint - you can shade hard and completely obscure the original digital paint, or you can shade lightly and let the digital paint show through but in a muted way.
Sometimes I don’t blend—I just shade over streaky or badly blended bits with digital pencils. I sample a nearby color and shade with appropriate pressure variation to get a smooth-looking transition (you can see a bit of that at the bottom of the nose above). I also use digital pencil for sharp details (the eye above), or if there’s a textured pencil brush, I use that texture where appropriate (the stubble above).DIGITAL ART TUTORIAL - How to blend colors in Photoshopartwithflo (63) in #art • 6 years ago DIGITAL ART TUTORIAL - Blending colors in Photoshop There are different techniques that can be used to blend colors in Photoshop when you are painting digital. I'll show you my own favorite technique! To blend colors in Photoshop I use a brush, the same brush that is used to paint with or sometimes I prefer using a soft edged brush for smoother blending. The other tool I use is the eyedropper tool, this is used to pick up colors from your painting. QUICK TIP: you can hold ALT on your keyboard to select the eyedropper tool In the area I want to blend, I pick up a color and glaze it over the adjacent color. I keep my opacity set to pen pressure (this can only be done if you have a pressure sensitive drawing tablet) and set the opacity of the brush to 50% or sometimes even lower. I keep picking up colors and glazing till the colors are nicely blended. In the video below I'll be showing some various blending techniques, like the smudge tool and mixer brush, I myself rarely use these. The mixer brush is pretty nice though, you can play around a lot with its settings. QUICK TIP: use [ and ] on your keyboard to easily adjust your brush size With my eyedropper - glazing technique you can use any brush you like, I usually use something like the chalk brush, but when I want smoother transitions, I grab a soft round brush. Check out the video and I'll show you how it's done :D
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I have been in photoshop for about 15 years and I still love your simple tutorials as lovely reminders of basic skills. Thanks!
6 years ago in #art by artwithflo (63) $ 8 .32 Past Payouts $8.32, 0.00 TRX - Author $6.50, 0.00 TRX - Curators $1.82, 0.00 TRX
I have been in photoshop for about 15 years and I still love your simple tutorials as lovely reminders of basic skills. Thanks!
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