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The Blob Brush and the opacity value

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The Blob Brush and the opacity value

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- [Instructor] All right, I'm going to wrap things up, at least, where this illustration is concerned, with a look at how the blob brush interacts with translucent shapes, that is shapes with opacity values of less than 100%, which include this little shadow inside the eye, the blue little shadow there, as well as this vignetting around the walls of the cave. Short story is it doesn't actually work. But let me show you what's going on. So, I'll go ahead and switch to my obviously slightly different version of the drawing that I'm creating here inside the video. And I'll switch to the colors layer, here inside the layers panel. And then, I'll grab my blob brush, which now has a keyboard shortcut of B, thanks to my intervention. And I'll just go ahead and change the fill to this light shade of blue that begins R equals 41. All right, and now, I'll just go ahead and increase the size of my cursor, quite a bit, actually,…

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