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Is there any way to create blending brushes in TVPaint. How would you blend to colors together smoothly. I know this sounds like an amatuer question, but I am curious. Any links or ideas would be cool. Thanks in advance.

Maybe can you try to use your brushes as papers and the airbrush tool with a gradient. (use a low value for the airbrush power)
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artmaestro wrote:Is there any way to create blending brushes in TVPaint. How would you blend to colors together smoothly. I know this sounds like an amatuer question, but I am curious. Any links or ideas would be cool. Thanks in advance.

hi maestro,
what do you mean exactly by "... blend to colors together smoothly" ?

meanwhile,
- you can have a look to the "specialBrush" tool (mixer mode) working as the color Mixer in the Color Picker Panel;
(not sure it's what you are looking for ...)
- another approach to modify smoothly a color by mixing it with a new one, (color management only),
is to use the excellent Lemec's "PPalette" external tool which is part of the lemec-plugins.

Thanks for the responses. After playing around with demo some more, I figured out what I wanted to do. I was looking to blend skin values together i.e shadows, fading into other areas without a distinct line. I included an attachment to show the look I was going for (look at the facial area). I adjusted the special tool to smear a little better. I haven't fully tested it, but I'm thinking it might work for me. I asked because I was thinking about the blending tools in Painter - since this software works similarly. I think it's neat to have quality real media tools and quality animation tools if needed together. This is why I'm really digging into this software. Again thanks for the help.

Hello artmaestro,
While you're playing with the demo more deeply, feel free to post some of your works or to ask for techniques...
Btw, is the attachement was made with TVPaint ?

Kind Regards,
Nicolas

wow , good work !

I thought about something else :
Some drawing mode are available with the common tools : (tint, colorize, saturate, add, etc ...).
they can be used with papers and help you to colorize your paintings.

fabrice wrote:wow , good work !

I thought about something else :
Some drawing mode are available with the common tools : (tint, colorize, saturate, add, etc ...).
they can be used with papers and help you to colorize your paintings.

That is not my work, though I wish it were . I was just posting an example of something I want to strive for. BTW the artist made this with Painter 9. Check his stuff out here http://www.alien1452.com/ and I'll try the technique you mentioned - thank you.