[Waxy]

Recently, I Have seen a rise on people wanting to learn smudging. Although I am not a master, and I am still learning, I Hope this guide will help others that are wanting to try and smudge.

It is recommended that you use a tablet for smudging, but it is not necessary.

Firstly, you are going to want to create a canvas, I prefare to use the size 475x175 px. Set the background colour to #060606.



Next, grab a hard round brush at the sizes 10-25, and create a random assortment of lines/shapes.



Now, go to your smudge tool and select an 8-11px hard, round brush with default settings, and begin to smudge. (90% Strength, Pen pressure).
Here is what i created:



Obviously, the canvas is looking very empty. Once you have your main base smudge, feel free to add other smaller or similar smudges around the base smudge to fill up the canvas.



Eventually, you will fill up your canvas when you keep smudging, but for the tutorial's sake i'm going to make the process a bit quicker. Here; i have duplicated the original smudge and positioned it differently, to get this: (Alternatively, you can add a render at this point).



Now, you can add some colour correction and lighting effects. Here, I Used a white soft brush to brighten up some parts of the smudge, and darkened some areas with a softbrush, and added some overlays and adjustment effects:



Now you have your finished piece.



Thank you for reading, post your attempts in the thread and also feel free to ask any questions.

[BlueFreakLP]

Looks awesome, i will try it out and post it here :)

[Peril]

WOW this is really great for begginers looks awesome nice work W@XY

[Waxy]

Thanks, guys, and good luck with your smudging :)

[Kioshi]

Nice tutorial Waxy, very simple and easy to follow 🤝 well done.

[Bovril Coin]

would love some help with this waxy just let me know where im going wrong please :)

[Waxy]

would love some help with this waxy just let me know where im going wrong please :)

Try to add some curves and definition, and try not to mix the colours together as much.]=

You see the way on my smudge i still have some solid blue/purple parts to define the definition.

[Bovril Coin]

yeah thanks i tried to do that but some times it was mixing i tried to just pull in little bits of black to wards the last stages to try and keep definition thanks for your help

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added some curves would you say this is a improvement?

[Waxy]

yeah thanks i tried to do that but some times it was mixing i tried to just pull in little bits of black to wards the last stages to try and keep definition thanks for your help

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added some curves would you say this is a improvement?

I can't really see how you've added curves, just looks like you've increased the brightness.

[AnnuitCoeptis]

thanks you for this but could snapshot the exact settings for your smug tool I'm not getting the same result.

[Understalker]

Lol that looks sick as fuck.

Great job.

[Waxy]

thanks you for this but could snapshot the exact settings for your smug tool I'm not getting the same result.

My settings are on default with 90% strength and pen pressure on.

Thanks for all of the positive feedback guys

[LightShadow]

This looks awesome thank you so much.

[Nemuri]

Really useful tutorial, final product looks really HQ. I think you should go a bit more in-depth on how you used colour correction and lighting effects to get that final product. Same with the brushing. Keep it up.

[Waxy]

Really useful tutorial, final product looks really HQ. I think you should go a bit more in-depth on how you used colour correction and lighting effects to get that final product. Same with the brushing. Keep it up.

Thanks guys, I wouldve went more in-depth but i didnt really have much time.