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Brushes in practice

Brushes in practice

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Brushes in practice

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to show you how I use some brushes in practice, because this is something you might like to adopt. Looking at the toolbox on the left-hand side where I've got the default set of brushes, I'm working here on something that I've just put together for this as means of an illustration. You can use your own stuff to do it. But I'm not likely to use all of those brushes. I haven't really got any need for any of the tapered brushes there, for example. But I don't want to keep jumping in and out and changing brush sizes and colors with the ones I am using. So, just to go a little bit deeper on that, if I tap here, I can show you that I'm using the basic round brush here, at maximum opacity, at its default size. I might want to have a much larger version of that at a reduced opacity to start to add some shading in here, to develop some form. So what I'm going to do is go to one of the brushes that I don't want to use, so in this case, the basic flat, and…

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