The last part of the ctrl+paint’s Digital Painting 101 does a short introduction on manual canvas color blending.
The process
Task:
- create a transition between color A and B
Process:
- create a temporary/work layer
- sample color A
- draw lightly with the hard brush in the middle
- sample color B
- draw lightly with the hard brush in the middle
- sample from the middle
- draw with the hard brush
- you repeatedly sample from A or B to adjust the middle color
The assignment
Using the above process fill the boxes with the colors.
- on desktop, the easiest to replicate the process was using Clip Studio Paint as I was able to use the button on the stylus to pick the color from the canvas
- on the iPad, the biggest problem I had with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
- could not open the template image so I had to paste it into a new document and then resize it manually
- picking colors was slow, as you have to press and hold
- it is also a pain that you can’t define your own brushes
- using Craft Pro was relatively better, even without an eraser or layers
- Procreate, Infinite Painter and ArtStudio Pro were all ok, though in ArtStudio I had to set the finger function to Eyedropper to get things faster and I would have liked to have that set to brush size/opacity
