Just some thoughts on smooth blending,

#21

Fabianv:
It looks like you’ve got the blending technique down pat, but you’re painting is lacking saturation. The animated gif I put up demonstrates the point Linda made in her notes about letting your brushes make all the blending choices for you. You’ll notice that at step 3, the gradient area has lost all sense of saturation, so it’s looking very dull. Adding that awfully hot pink to the transition area makes the formerly dull transition look a lot more vibrant. Granted, the color choice was very exaggerated, but the point stands.

In the case of your painting, the shadow areas, in particular, are very desaturated and, hence, muddy-looking. You also have a fairly low range of values. Try pushing the lights and darks more, and adding some saturation back into the picture.

#22

excellent tut enayla. great approach. still i must say people. explore the photoshop. edited.

#23

Speaking of alternative blending methods, Don Seegmiller’s Digital Character Design & Painting book (Photoshop CS edition) discusses using the Healing Brush to blend between colors. Pretty interesting method, too.

#24

wow… so thats what that thing is for, thanx for the link… i was always confused bout that healing brush thing:thumbsup:

#25

Yeah, thank god for those that share their knowledge :slight_smile:

#26

my guess, he lasso’s and then paiants into the selections using different source colours for the different lights in the scene. The overall shapes are well defined, but heavy smudging makes it interesting in the transitional areas.

#27

who does that???

#28

:curious:, dunno…:wise:…you tell me?

#29

ME??? …i would rather die than complicate things to that level, think about it, it is a huge comic book im makin… every picture done that way…shivers… ten years later first edition done… gasp

#30

Well keep your secrets then. We are kind of enjoying those who are sharing theirs., really.

#31

Indeed, what’s the point of your post nebezial? :shrug:

#32

im sorry i usualy share all my stuff, i made tuts myself but this i just discovered, i need to work it out a lil, it is sort of a trick in the making, patience, i will make a tut

:slight_smile:

#33

the point is to make people look for options in the frickin program!!!

#34

aaah…this looks troublesome, neb… what cha gonna do? reveal the secret to us yet?:bounce:

#35

e tu brutus:) i said ill make a tut and i will… u should know that:D im no good at keepin secrets, i just want to see will anyone figure it out, u know me, anyways this is enaylas thread so i wont be spammin it anymore, im sorry Enayla. so get back on the subject people, ill edit out the pic i posted

#36

Linda, Ive said it once and Ill say it time after time, your the best! Always an insperation!

Thanks for the Tut! I’ve been guilty of using only a Hightlight and a shadow tone, well now I know, thanks agian!

#37

lol, i’ve been doing it wrong all along! i love it! thanks for sharing this. i never thought to use a speckled brush for blending. i only use those for hair. now i know, AND KNOWING IS HALF TE BATTLE!!! thank you Linda!

#38

In the d’artiste book, I have a tutorial that deals with blending and rendering brushstrokes.

If anyone’s interested, I could do a Painter blending/rendering comparison to accompany what Linda has done with her Photoshop one.

#39

Yes please Robert :slight_smile: That would be greatly appreciated.

If any of you use painter, please visit Robert’s site for his custom brushes. They are just awesome.
http://www.ethereality.info/

#40

Awesome thread. I really like the techniques you posted, Enalya. I made a real fast tutorial for the healing brush method of blending that someone mentioned earlier in the thread, in case anyone was wondering how to do it. I learned this at a tutorial hosted by Don Seegmiller. I’m going to plug his books, since it’s his technique: Don Seegmiller’s Books

I’m a newbie painter, so I can’t really demonstrate how to use this technique effectively, but perhaps someone who is skilled can post their results to show how effective it is.