HOW TO: basic digital painting

There's many different styles out there. But I've tried to showcase the basic steps that have been talked about in every "How to paint digitally" tutorial I've read.
I'm still learning to improve... you can't become a pro overnight, so practice is essential!

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# song is, "La Musique (Adam Sky Remix)" by RIOT IN BELGIUM

1. Sketching an Idea

2. Solid Colour Bases
- no need to be clean

3. Smudge with Large Brush (optional)

4. Blend Colours
- blend, as if sculpting the form of the object
- don't do details first!! work from general to specific
- and make your brush's size smaller gradually

5. Forget the Outline
- refine the image
- ...by making the boundaries between the colours...
- crisp & sharp!

6. Adjust Saturation (optional)

# This image was left unfinished.
# I paint with OpenCanvas & a Wacom tablet.
# Painting time was under and hour.
# CamStudio was used for the screen capture.

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[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 :'(

[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.

[unregisteredTROLLING]

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

[byebyebrain138]

@dbqpo0oqpdb and in the video...

[byebyebrain138]

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

[Stinnie89]

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

[dbqpo0oqpdb]

do you use mouse ?

[blackyonbi]

@weenylem

i do believe is the "blur" tool

[Frutoses]

@weenylem Lower the brush's opacity.

[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.

[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]

@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