Smoking Mirror

nietzsche: god is dead

god: no im not

Rings by AroshaTaglia on Etsy

Me doing art:

hello! thanks so much!! i dont actually do much manual blending…i mostly try to combine hard edged lines and shapes with soft edges, so i only really use two tools…a hard edged ink brush and an airbrush. and i also think that, when it comes to painting, blocking in major shadow shapes and managing your edges is more important than blending. and even when it comes to blending colors or getting soft edges i prefer to use the circular gradient tool or the aforementioned airbrush! but, here’s what i can offer you!

this was done with kyle’s big wide softy brush, which i believe is in the megapack. the key to blending is to use the eyedropper tool to select the color that was made by using light pressure on the tablet pen.

this color!! this one right here!!

then you just paint on and keep eyedropping colors nearby the color you’re trying to blend. it’s the equivalent of mixing yellow and blue paint and then dabbing the green you made onto your brush.

but this is how i normally work. this was done with shiyoon kim’s ink brushes and the 300px airbrush from this brush pack. my favorite airbrush ever!

this is a close up from the last thing i painted using kyle’s brushes…from my tarot cards. this was done with shiyoon’s brushes, kyle’s kid crayon brush, and the airbrush from above. you can see there are a lot of hard edges! all the soft edges were created with the airbrush or the kid crayon brush on lower opacity/flow.