Using gradient blends: Effects

…The last art I want to kind of walk you through a few of the detailing methods…regarding gradients is this tiki mask. One aspect of…the detailing on this mask that doesn't have to…be complicated, but it really added, I think…to the overall effect of the artwork, is in…the nose, specifically, of this character. If I just…pull this out, you can see that in order…to model just the tip of that nose, I just used a simple gradient fill.…

And if we go over to the gradient palette, you can see it's just a lighter hue, tint…of this brown blending out to once again the base color set…to zero alpha, and that gives this nice effect…of the highlight on the tip of his nose. So it's those kind of subtle uses…of gradients even in context of illustration. Like this…tiki illustration works good, but specifically I want to show you…how I use gradients in a little different way. So on this artwork, the outside…edge of the artwork is showing here. It's this shape and all I've done…is I've cloned that shape, just Cmd+C, Cmd+F,…