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Published: 2015-04-29 20:39:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 10392; Favourites: 498; Downloads: 0
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Description Been experimenting with the smudge tool a lot lately for super-speedy ideations with simple brushes. It's more like sculpting than painting, true pixel-pushing.
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MKSchmidt [2015-09-17 05:25:32 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful work

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DarinHuddy [2015-05-30 06:43:22 +0000 UTC]

 love the dramatic lighting and atmospheric perspective. cool!

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duesterheit [2015-05-10 19:11:14 +0000 UTC]

nice

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Astral-Muffin [2015-05-01 23:06:56 +0000 UTC]

Do you have any tips on how to use the smudge tool properly? I know many pros use it but when I do it looks awfully amateur and ugly, and you clearly know how to do it, it looks great. I really like the big gate, it's so simple yet it looks so good

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Balaskas In reply to Astral-Muffin [2015-05-04 00:58:20 +0000 UTC]

I'm toying with the idea of putting together a video on the process. Here I alternated between a hard round and square brush with all settings off, pulling out shapes from blobs of color painted on it's own layer.

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Astral-Muffin In reply to Balaskas [2015-05-07 23:40:45 +0000 UTC]

I'd be really thankful if you could, but even if you couldn't thanks a lot for the tip, I'm gonna try to do that next time

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MarioTsota [2015-04-30 23:24:35 +0000 UTC]

fcking awesome edges

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donwhitt [2015-04-30 20:05:57 +0000 UTC]

this is amazing friend.
Beautiful color choices.

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BreathFlux [2015-04-30 14:34:06 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work!

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DaddyHoggy [2015-04-30 04:41:18 +0000 UTC]

Your experimentation leads to an very different but enjoyable style.

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naulvulrofaenademaul [2015-04-29 22:24:50 +0000 UTC]

Oh my god!!! How did you do that!!!???❤❤👍👍👍👍

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HachiChou [2015-04-29 21:56:39 +0000 UTC]

this looks... elegant in a way. awesome! keep up the good work ^_^ 

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KamilTeczynski [2015-04-29 21:28:18 +0000 UTC]

Extremely minimalist style. It's beautiful.

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Blazbaros [2015-04-29 20:43:14 +0000 UTC]

Love the scale on this but I think those clouds are obscuring the gate a bit too much, maybe if they were a little smaller and perhaps if one was behind it?

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Balaskas In reply to Blazbaros [2015-04-29 23:46:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the input This was originally just a doodle I decided to polish. The gate was added at the end to fill up all the empty blue sky, I did try to push the bottom cloud back but that made the perspective seem wonky. Lessons learned

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Blazbaros In reply to Balaskas [2015-04-30 00:09:08 +0000 UTC]

Ah I see it now, it was subtle enough that I didn't notice it. Looks good regardless!

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