How do you get a slight blurred/soften effect on your drawings? I've seen many artist do this and I really want to try it out! Please keep up with the artwork, it's incredibly great 😤💗
Aw thank you! 🤗 Hah I remember when I first noticed artists using this soft glow effect and then I slammed it on all of my art!! :3 Haha sure I’ll gladly help you 😊
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✨SOFT GLOW EFFECT✨
Edward will be our model for this:
1. Duplicate your flattened drawing and blur the upper layer to look something like this:
2. Lower the opacity to somewhere around 30-35%. You’re done. Wowie.
3. (optional) Now if you want you could do some more advanced stuff like apply a greyscale of your drawing as a mask to the blurred layer (then crank up the opacity). That way the light parts of your drawing will appear more blurred and the dark ones will be sharper.
The difference is subtle, but it will make your drawing look less washed out while still maintining that dreamy look. You can see the difference here, focus on the dark bag :)
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✨SOFT LINEART EFFECT✨
Another technique that I like to use in Photoshop is adding an "Outer Glow” layer style to the lineart layer :) I usually tint it to be reddish and it looks really nice and organic without blurring away any details 😊
The same feature probably exists in other apps too, try and find it! Here are my PS settings in any case:
Now go and make everything SOFT SOFT GLOOOW MY FRIEND ✨✨✨