agnidevi's avatar
It's a mix of Photoshop and Painter. In Photoshop I usually paint with standard round hard edge brush & use airbrush for smoothing. These days I also use some texture brushes... there are many of them in Photoshop so I use something that fits to the painting I'm doing. No special preferences.

In Painter I use camel hair brushes, chalk, digital watercolor, airbrush, palette knife, various blenders... something like that. The settings are default except the opacity and size. Basically you can play with any brushes until you find something that works for you.
LuisaRafidi's avatar
The brush you use in photoshop, what opacity and flow do you set it to? Do you leave "other dynamics" on?

And wow, that's a lot of brushes you use in Painter! I've tried using some but Painter is very complicated to me. I should keep trying.
Thanks!
agnidevi's avatar
Opacity is varied on the fly (I use hotkeys) and flow is almost always set to 100% (except the airbrush mode). Other dynamics is turned on.

Do not fear all those brushes, actually with practice you'll build your own tools arsenal for painting. Just keep goin' You're the artist and software is just a tool.
LuisaRafidi's avatar
Thanks : ) I have a problem that sometimes the skin I paint turn out looking like plastic and very artificial. Do you know what might be the problem?

Also, do you ever plan on recording your painting progress?