How to blend colors
In this tutorial Im going to show you how I blend colors in order to get better looking paintings.
This process can be also achieved in other raster programs like photoshop, and thus its not rare, its in fact widely used. I normally find blending done using the smudge tool, or the blur tool, but using them solely doesn’t gives great results.
We start with the 2 colors we want to blend in, they might be similar or very different. In this case I chose a light blue and a nice red.
Next we set up with a brush with an opacity around 30 to start with and a quite wide brush in relation to the area to fill. We are going to move the mouse as the arrows show (image below) on a zig zag movement. If you are using a tablet you can tap short strokes from one color to another.