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I am getting more and more into digital painting and wanting to get better but i am mostly teaching myself with a few tips from my digital art teacher. His idea is for me to take a sketch, lay down a base color, burn and dodge in the tones, and then paint with opaque colors on top. here is one image in progress from this.

I want to learn the technique i've seen a lot in the speed paintings where people keep lots of brush strokes down and they aren't blended in as much. What do most people tend to do. Start with sketches then block in colors or what? And lastly how opaque and hard are the brushes u guys tend to use?


Any help is much appreciated.

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From what I hear, and what I do too, people use a hard round brush with an opacity of about 10-70%
They first block the image, (sketch the main parts), then they start blocking the colors, (again, sketching the main colors in the image), then they add highlights, shadows as needed, and continue with detailing an image.
Well, at least that is what I have seen and done myself. *Still too scared to bring out my paintings from the darkness of my room*


Edited: Read this tutorial to get the jist of it.
http://www.cgnetworks.com/story_custom.php?story_id=1620&page=1

Make sure to read all 3 pages, just click "Next Page" when you get to the bottom.

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Sweet thanks u pretty much summed up my questions