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New Paint Brush

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So this is the brush I've painted all my recent deviations with, I don't use my other ones at all anymore.
All of them starting with this one.
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I don't use anything else to color but my flat brush, that includes blending. I don't use an extra brush to blend, because I manually blend with this one. I take two colors and use the color drop, the eyedropper thing whatever you want to call it, to pick up shades between. I don't like the blend settings on Sai anymore because, personally, I find them to come out looking smeared rather than blended. So I don't even have 'blend' checked off at the bottom and blending is left at zero.
I have dilution set at 25 and persistence set at 50. If you're wondering why, it's because I find persistence handy at giving of a natural paint look. It leaves the color imperfect, with small spots of blended color within the picture like natural paint. If you don't like this, put persistence at 0.
A natural look is what I was going for this brush, that is also why I color with a square brush now.
As for dilution, I find that it helps to create a soft blended look with the use of separate top layers. Sometimes it helps to bring those new layers down to 80-97 opacity.
On the little 'hard - soft' meter at the bottom, a lower number tends to give you a lighter color, but a more narrow brush. The opposite is true for a higher number.
If there is anything else you want to know about my settings, or brushes in general, just ask. :)

Feel free to use these settings, just give me credit for making them. ;)
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Siberwar's avatar
how can I get a brush like that? Can you tell me please? o3o