Jama Jurabaev 40
4. Painting Methods---4-1.Mixer Brush
P40 - 00:00
All right. Let's talk about mixer brush and smudge tool.
P40 - 00:04混合模糊工具。
Actually, these guys are quite similar. So I thought it's really important to show you all the way they work. And also give you some tips on the differences between them.
P40 - 00:15展示工作原理，给鉴别点。
So mixer brush, basically, there are two ways of using mixer brush,
P40 - 00:20两种方式用混合刷子。
first one is when we use mixer brush to kind of Introduce a little bit of soft edging.
P40 - 00:31用软边界。
for example, let me make something with a very kind of solid edges,
P40 - 00:39比如用结实的边缘。
And then I will use the mixer brush, and let's use the same brush for the mixing.
P40 - 00:48同样的刷子做混合。
So basically mixer brush goes over here.
P40 - 00:51左侧工具栏混合刷子位置。
And i've got an shortcut for it. So you can customize it as well.
P40 - 00:56我用快捷键调用的。
So whatever I pressed and I was able to make some brush pressing b goes back to the brush mode.
P40 - 01:01按B回到刷子模式。
So press N and select the same brush.
P40 - 01:05按N选择同样的刷子。
And as you can see the different options, I usually just go for default one very wide.
P40 - 01:11默认一的宽度。
And basically what it does for me, it starts like smudging things around and it introduces a very nice kind of transition.
P40 - 01:23混迹做出转化的效果。
And gradient and stuff like that.
P40 - 01:30像是渐变梯度。
Basically, it's very useful because it looks very much like what you do in traditional painting. And this is how you introduce like, for example, if you just painted with this brush, this brush is very dry,
P40 - 01:43比如有的刷子很干。
So this is a perfectly dry brush. With some paint on it. And using a mixer brush, you kind of introducing wet. it's just basically the way you do. If you're doing an oil painting, you have a brush which is driving some paint. And then you put some marks. It just gives you this kind of reading lose suggestive elements.
P40 - 02:15湿的像扫出建议性的画笔。
And by using mixer brush, you're introducing more of those transitions, And what was suggested before it becomes more, do gets more definition and stuff like that.
P40 - 02:30混合刷子带入更多的转化。
So basically, that’s the way the first type of using mixer brush. And you can just do a very simple exercise. If you want to try to kind of experiment with it, put some brush strokes, like put something like this, and then take especially fabric painting.
P40 - 02:52可以做一些构造的绘制。
Fabric is really difficult. If you're doing it blink properly. But using mixer brush, it will give you a lot of. Do you see what I mean? I'll give you a nice transition.
P40 - 03:07混合刷子给到过渡。
So you suggest the cloth. You're not actually painting it, because, you don’t want to spend time and prove people that you can paint the cloth.
P40 - 03:16不会总花时间证明绘制布料刷子。
All you need to do is to be able to suggest the cloth thing. like this. and I was using smooth tool, and do this exercise like literally which we don't think about anything just try to create this kind of cloth looking type of thing.
P40 - 03:44做出来看着像布料的。
create this gradient. So something like this. also you can do it. The other reason why we are using smudge mixer brush,
P40 - 04:07另一个用模糊和混合刷子的原因。
for example, let's say using a very kind of opaque, silhouette.
P40 - 04:14比如用不透明度的剪影。
Let's say we painted something really quickly. This is a guy. With this walk,
P40 - 04:27比如这是一个人拄着拐杖。
So it's a nice silhouette. And now we want to push it backwards. So basically, we want to kind of integrate him better with the background to make the light bleeding.
P40 - 04:55用打入光融入背景。
So you use the mixer brush tool, kind of soft on these edges to make them less.
P40 - 05:00混合刷子柔化边缘。
It's almost like you want to introduce depth of field without actually using depth of field.
P40 - 05:06不用景深却可以展示景深。
And mixer brush is the best way to soften the edges.
P40 - 05:11混合刷子是柔化边缘的好工具。
And once again, it's a very same principle, similar principle of suggestion.
P40 - 05:18和建议的绘制原则类似。
Reverse statement, Because wherever you have like really hard edges, it's a statement.
P40 - 05:32坚硬的边缘是声明。
that you want people to look there. Let’s say this guy was looking like sidewalks.
P40 - 05:40比如人物看起来像是侧面。
We know the focal point. Let's see if this was a Pope or something like that.
P40 - 05:47比如加一个帽子。
He was holding not the swords, but maybe some kind of this thing.
P40 - 05:58握的类似剑。
We would know that the most important part is his face. So then you would use the mixer brush.
P40 - 06:20用混合刷子，比如绘制面部。
His face. use mixer brush too much, to make like soft edges everywhere else.
P40 - 06:37比如混合刷子让边缘柔软下来。
And leave his face as the most sharping, which will create a focal point straight away.
P40 - 06:45比如锐利的面部聚焦点。
You make a statement because it's the most crisp thing in the picture. Or vice versa, like you can smudge like his face as well.
P40 - 06:57还可以让面部模糊。
So it becomes very vague.
P40 - 06:59会变得不够清晰。
And then you actually have your focal point shifts to this guy. So this is the main guy.
P40 - 07:03专注点转移到手里的工具。
So it depends what you want to emphasize. You use the mixer brush to kind of soften your edges,
P40 - 07:11混合刷子来软化边缘。
and it will impact your story telling a lot. Because it will allow you to kind of move your focal point inside the picture just by using smudge and mixing things together.
P40 - 07:28用混合刷子可把一切联系在一起。
it's very, very useful tool to introduce this age variety in the what other people say age variety.
P40 - 07:39也是别人提到的年龄变异。
You really need to understand that it is done for a single purpose to emphasize to state to make statements in one place is like this.
P40 - 07:48像是强调某个地方的状态。
And to kind of abstract and suggest everything else.
P40 - 07:52像是用抽象描述万物。
So once you know that one be very easy for you to kind master the mixer brush.
P40 - 07:59容易上手精通混合刷子。
So let me just quickly summarize this. The first reason why we are using mixer brushes,
P40 - 08:08第一为什么用混合刷子。
it’s those great ingredients. Second case was we were softening edges.
P40 - 08:23梯度和软化边界。
Which is the same thing as we would stay suggestive.
P40 - 08:32软化边缘可修改可以调节。
And there is a 3rd way of using mixer brush.
P40 - 08:40第三种方法用混合刷子。
What kind of show that a little bit of the previous lessons? That's create repetitive products.
P40 - 08:49创建的重复模式。
So basically, I already showed you the way it works. But now I will kind of show you how you will extensively use it to create something really cool.
P40 - 09:15拓展讲述下。
For example, if you want a repeating shape like, say let's do this guy, And we want to use this one as a repeating shape. We can do a brush out of it.
P40 - 09:32可以用刷子重复形状。
But sometimes like cleaning brush is really time consuming what you need to do. You use a flat brush, you increase the size.
P40 - 09:42增加平刷大小。
So you're covering everything. like all the pixels that you just painted.
P40 - 09:47比如绘制的像素。
And you go from very, where do you go to dry option? And you click out and you kind of sample it.
P40 - 09:53干绘制的选项。做复制。
You can see it over here. And then when you paint, it will paint with using this one. All you need to adjust the spacing. And when you paint, it will pay for this geometry,
P40 - 10:08绘制出几何形状。
which is a very cool feature because you can create and design like crazy stuff. And also it affects everything you have for kind of you can adjust all the shape dynamics and all the stuff that you have over here.
P40 - 10:29调整这里不同的形状。
So yeah, you can create some really beautiful for example, pattern sword, let's say designs on your suit or or stuff like that.
P40 - 10:40比如设计到套装上。
Like zipping and repeating patterns. Like for example, you can do full panels. Again, the same principle as we used in the first lessons.
P40 - 10:57重复的原则。
you stretch them and you have really cool stuff. Let's quickly do something else. For example. And also you can use it in your picture as well. For example, let's say we've got this guy over here. And we all go on selecting. the only thing you need on transparent layers. So I will use blending modes.
P40 - 11:27透明涂层。用混合模型。
We shall show the next lesson. I will readjust transparency. So I just have this guy on transparency layer. And you can go like this and use the mixer brush again. You can paint with the guy. Oh, for example, if you have a crowd, different people. It's really easiest way to do it.
P40 - 12:00比如一群人，大小不等。
Your design one of the guys. You mix them. And then basically all you need to do is go back with your brush work.
P40 - 12:10回去用刷子。
And just to tweak those guys, To introduce some variety, because they all look the same.
P40 - 12:19可以做些变异出来。
It's very easy. But it's also a very good design tool. When it comes to patterns and repetitive things,
P40 - 12:32重复 模型也是很有力的工具。
mixer brush is one of the most powerful tools in photoshop,
P40 - 12:36混合刷子是强有力的工具。
because it allows you to create brushes without actually going on creating those brushes. let's just do another example of something more complicated. I'm going to sample this guy.
P40 - 12:53一个复杂形状，复制样本。
you see what I mean? Boom, boom. And then you can take this guy. Sample in. And now you have a very nice, repetitive pattern that you can use for anything.
P40 - 13:40这样有重复的花纹了。
for walls, for tire tracks or any kind of design elements that you wanted to use.
P40 - 13:51用于各种设计的元素。
So it’s a very good one. That's it about the mixer brush. I will just stop it here. And next one, i'll show you how to use much tool. Thank you very much.
