My favorite brush for digital painting, with a soft texture for blending but capable of creating hard edges if not overworked. Great at blending colors within masked layers.
Using a tablet with a tilt function, this brush can be used to build and blend between colors on the same layer. If your tablet does not support tilt, it may not produce the intended effect.
This brush is not good at keeping the shape of a layer, so it is best used with the segmented painting method where you separate different body parts or sections with masks or locking transparency before beginning to paint/blend/render.
I would not recommend this brush for overpainting. Rather, I prefer to use it to add color variation before rendering with other brushes and at the end of the process to add highlights. This is because of the way you can go over the same areas multiple times to build the color, making it easy to add highlights that are not too overbearing.
This brush is not good at keeping the shape of a layer, so it is best used with the segmented painting method where you separate different body parts or sections with masks or locking transparency before beginning to paint/blend/render.
I would not recommend this brush for overpainting. Rather, I prefer to use it to add color variation before rendering with other brushes and at the end of the process to add highlights. This is because of the way you can go over the same areas multiple times to build the color, making it easy to add highlights that are not too overbearing.
In this example image, I created the bold lines and the soft/subtle blending using only this brush. It is not recommended to use this brush as a liner unless you tweak the settings to increase the flow and help it keep its shape. At the same time, softening the inside lines by using the brush to blend with transparency in favor of a color may create a nice effect and make your life easier in an overpainting layer using other brushes, but that is not pictured above.
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