Hello everyone and happy Thursday. Let me start by saying how much I love HIVE :-) There are many reasons of course, but one of them is the fact that it helps me learn how to draw, color and make better content. Often, when you find a way that works for you, you stick with it. But it is by experimentig and seeing how others do stuff that you can "up your game".
I follow many and I just love to check out what others do. Especially when they include their steps in their post and give some tips. Yesterday I saw a post by @brataka (https://hive.blog/hive-174301/@brataka/36ndzf-digital-drawing-sunset#@pegarissimo/rqiacy), the realism of it just stroked me. Many artists are incredible and the results look like pictures, but he mentionned a little something that I was not aware of :
"as always without blurring, only with the rough square texture to get a semi realistic oil painting effect"
... I usually blend my colors with a regular blender or blur, so I was curious to see how to blend without my usual tools. It works great!! It not only blends but it gives a little texture effect, something that I will surely start to use on a regular base (to get experience in blending that way). So just a little sentence from a post can truly help someone explore new ways, I am grateful for that, I feel that I can make a little more progress because of those.
This drawing was done not in the goal to be posted, but to try out that blending technique. But since the result surprised me, I have changed my mind (and can't wait to start another with the same blending techniques) :-)
Here are some progress pics :
You can go check out the video of the drawing below :
I hope you guys like it. Thanks for the view