HOW TO: basic digital painting

[unregisteredTROLLING]

looks like some ran their sweaty thumb over a crayola drawing on a glass wondow....

[dbqpo0oqpdb]

do you use mouse ?

[byebyebrain138]

@dbqpo0oqpdb # I paint with OpenCanvas & a Wacom tablet. says in the discription

[byebyebrain138]

@dbqpo0oqpdb and in the video...

[GloriaGore]

is this 1.1

how do you blend in that one

[MultiflowDaburg]

do you guys use a mouse or a digital pencil?

[weenylem]

most probably some kind of tablet, maybe wacom look it up

[vickstahs]

wacom pens ; so yes, basically digital pencil. but some people use their mouse, too.

[weenylem]

ok How do you blend it, in every tutorial i'm told to just blend it and i never get how to do this :'(

[alteregoAtlas]

In typical "water colour" brushes like the ones in openCanvas it is done semi-automatically when using two different colours around each other. You canalso do so manually by picking a colour between the two you are blending. :D

[weenylem]

thank you so much ^-^

[thatagz]

@weenylem you blend with the photoshop tool named smudge tool or R button on your keyboard. Remember to blend it following the lines of your draw (:

[Bidon45]

@thatagz thats one way but I suggest never using the smudge tool, its how beginners try to blend and it looks like crap, no offense. I'll try to outline how to blend in photoshop the right way in response to weenylem

[Bidon45]

@weenylem to blend, lay down your base colors first, w/e they may be, just blob them on roughly, then with a brush with opacity jitter set to pen pressure, go 50% opacity, and brush over the hard edges of the colors with the other colors and you'll get a mix of the two where you stroke, then eyedrop THAT color, and do it again over the new hard edges, rinse and repeat until the color is blended to your satisfaction, then switch to 25% opacity and do it again with a soft brush if you want more.

[Bidon45]

@weenylem a wacom tablet is kinda needed to do it unless you wanna switch between opacities constantly a LOT. if you dont have a tablet, there are other less effecient ways to do it but I dont really know about them.

[Frutoses]

@weenylem Lower the brush's opacity.

[blackyonbi]

@weenylem

i do believe is the "blur" tool

[Stinnie89]

@weenylem I use blur filters as a workaround for this. It isnt the best, but it gets the job done.

[hikunito]

i have open canvas but i dont are so good in it, jeje, good look for your future works, congratulations i like very much the draw.

[Neoneel25]

what progrsmm was used inthis ?

[eevee78939]

I just saw you post this on DA XD

Great job though ^^ Helped me a lot.