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    Looks very nice. I've been meaning to try out my watercolor brushes to do an ocean like that and now you really spark my interest. Well done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascension View Post
    Looks very nice. I've been meaning to try out my watercolor brushes to do an ocean like that and now you really spark my interest. Well done.
    Danke! It took a bit for me to find the right watercolor look, that wasn't a pain to create, in the end the easiest/fastest method for me was to very quickly draw in the entire area I wanted to paint with a 'wet edges' brush in a light blue/green/whatever, duplicate the layer four to five times, set them all to multiply and begin erasing sections of each layer, starting from the outside and working gradually inwards using a soft low flow/opacity brush. The inevitable blots and fades and subtle shifts in saturation are juuust close enough to watercolors to pass. (To my eye at least, I could definitely improve the realism a bit by adding a droplet watermark or two.)

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