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Published: 2010-10-28 14:27:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 11836; Favourites: 192; Downloads: 310
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Blending has to be thoroughly learned, because realism will not work without. I often ruined my paintings with using giant blenders on minutiate detail, or smooth blenders on surfaces that should be textured. You can save lots of time if you use a brush that's easy to blend in the first place. Also, blending can be done in several passes - painting roughly, blending, painting details, blending again.

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Comments: 9

xiao668 [2010-11-22 18:39:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the tips! =3 I'll keep 'um in mind!

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Ranarh In reply to xiao668 [2010-11-26 19:59:34 +0000 UTC]

You are welcome.

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DameOdessa [2010-11-09 16:17:05 +0000 UTC]

I so needed this tutorial as well No I understand all my mistakes Thanks!

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Ranarh In reply to DameOdessa [2010-11-12 19:30:33 +0000 UTC]

Well, I expect nothing less than perfect works now

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DameOdessa In reply to Ranarh [2010-11-13 13:43:20 +0000 UTC]

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MrDithers [2010-10-31 19:54:33 +0000 UTC]

I had a (perhaps dumb) question that I noted you with. Definitely some useful stuff here, thanks for putting this up.

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Ranarh In reply to MrDithers [2010-11-01 18:38:52 +0000 UTC]

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FOXANDLIBERTY [2010-10-30 13:05:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for that tip, I've been using standard blender brushes on heavily textured brush strokes without even thinking about it. Tried this tip and big difference.

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Ranarh In reply to FOXANDLIBERTY [2010-11-01 18:39:40 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad it helped. I found that blending can be quite difficult altogether.

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