I like these because they come with the blend settings built into each brush. Most of my paintings are done using the Artist’s Oils brushes. Play with each one, in a practical setting, to find the ones that work the best for you. I demo’d a few others, just to show some of the differences. Not sure why they call it that, but it does give a nice solid gradation between colors, and a little more personality than the smear brush. Somewhat better than the Smear brush, you’ve got the “Just Add Water” brush. Not too bad if you don’t mind a little blur in your blend. Nice smooth color transitions, but kinda blah. The Smear brush, in Painter, is pretty similar to the one in photoshop. This makes it especially good for blending skin tones, where a little bit of speckled grain gives the skin texture.
It blends pretty well, picks up every color around it, but gives you some grain as well. The Smudge brush is probably my favorite. The first set of brushes here can all be found in your Brush Selector bar under “Blenders.” There are quite a few options there, but these are my top picks. Feel free to bust out your copy of Painter and play along. What I’ve done here is a roundup of some of my favorite blending brushes. But the sheer number of blending options (or perhaps the fact that they’re not as obvious as the smear brush in PS), seems to confuse people who’ve recently made the switch. This is one of several areas where I feel like Painter really shines over PS.
While it has its uses, too many beginners rely on it heavily instead of searching for better blending options, and more often than not it makes a painting look blurry, distorted, and amateurish. If you’re used to Photoshop, you’re more than likely very familiar with the Smudge/Smear brush. One of the questions I get asked most often is about blending. Sadly, there’s a severe shortage of Painter tutorials out there. I’m not a Painter “Master” by any stretch of the imagination, and pretty much everything I know about the program I’ve picked up on my own. I use Photoshop mainly for color touchups, resizing images, and scanning traditional media. I’d say about 99.9% of any of my digital artwork is created in Corel Painter IX. I switched over from Photoshop about three years ago, and (for the most part) haven’t looked back.
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