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Get a Wet Into Wet Look With My New Digital Watercolours

 Wet Into Wet With Digital Watercolours? Is this possible?

I discovered a way to get my digital watercolour variants to blend together with a really wet look. I can even add another colour that will blend a little with the colour already there and diffuse in. It looks a bit like when traditional watercolourists add wet paint to an already wet area. I believe it's sometimes called 'charging colour in.' Well, I wouldn't exactly say the colour charged right in there very much...but, I can do further blending that makes it look like it did.
 
There are probably ways to do this with the Wet Watercolours and the Real Watercolours, but I haven't mastered them yet, and I like the control I have over the digital watercolour variants. 
 
They will add a looseness and softness to my watercolours I think! I'm still developing them. To give you a hint...I used some of the captured dabs from the Gel Category of brushes and turned them into Digital Waterclours. I altered the static bristle, the jitter, the diffusion, the well - saturated or desaturated (is that a word?), size, and sometimes the opacity to get the look I wanted.
 
Below is a page from my sketchbook of experimenting with these brushes.  They look blurrier here than they are because of file size constraints. I didn't add any paper texture either.
 
If you Zoom In you can see the edges better.

 
 
 

Look at all the hard and soft edges I can create, and the blending of colours. I think it looks pretty wet! What do you think?

 

 
 
 
 

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