http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24105181/

This tutorial is pretty revolutionary for me, and I'm sure it will help fortunate people with Photoshop 7.0. 8)

I've diddled with the brushedittor in my coppy of PS/E 2.0, but those OPTIONS! Wow. And I was a bit skeptical of his (her?) blending technique, but after they explained it, I must say that makes a crap load of sense.

Awesome no?
Yeah, the blend tool annoyed me as well since it made my colors funky, so it's kinda logical to use brush strokes, like in real life kinda. Although I use my hands and shaders a lot in real life, with natural media. With digital painting though, fuddling around with a tone between the two other tones seems to blend wonders when you have a painterly effect.

I totaly agree. however, For Magpies, (which you are in the next one after the one i'm doing now BTW) I'm still going to use smudge and blur tools. I'm not painting master peices.

Heh. I don't have the patience for a comic, and then people go MORE MORE MORE once said thing does hit.

But yesh, I tried this out, and the results are good. I changed the brush spacing to 6% though. I made something in 5 minutes to try out the brush setting. BEWARE MY MADE UP PINK PAINTERLY CLOTH!11!!1

Wow! I can say without reservation that that picture is beautiful! Way to go, Ash.

I'll try out this tutorial one day and the picture looks great!