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Optymistyk
10-12-2017, 05:46 AM
Hi,
I'm playing around with glazing so I need my paint to be half-transparent, but with half-transparent oil brush when two strokes overlap (or even if a single stroke overlaps with itself - for example a back-and-forth stroke) the paint in that spot becomes thicker, making it less transparent . I want to have a large area of oil paint of consistent transparency, how do I go about that?

HannahRage
10-12-2017, 04:00 PM
You won't be able to do that with the oil brush, but you can maybe do it with the following tools (these all let you set a specific opacity, or blend evenly):

- Watercolor (InstaDry on)
- Airbrush (turn Autoflow off, adjust Hardness and Opacity)
- Gloop Pen
- Ink Pen
- Custom Brush (using 100% Grain Progression so the pattern covers the background evenly, rather than overlapping with each stroke)

But only with the same stroke (as soon as you start a new stroke, it will overlap the previous one).


You might find it easier to paint at much lower thinners on a separate layer and then reduce the opacity of that entire layer. The overlapping strokes won't be an issue if you have enough paint on the brush.

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You could also use the palette knife to go over your strokes and smooth them out afterwards.

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markw
10-13-2017, 04:29 AM
I recall AR user fashmir did a brief tutorial about Glazing in AR a long time back which may be of interest.
You can find it here: http://www2.ambientdesign.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=5829&d=1173559824