So if I reduce this to 47, well now I'm painting at 47% opacity. So really the brush size is just an attribute that's exposed here in the tool property palette as well. In the case of the smooth brush, you can see that when I adjust the brush size, it's also adjusting here in the brush size palette. And that's where our tool property palette comes into play. But there are so many other attributes that you can adjust on every single brush. So far, the only attributes that we've been adjusting on our brushes have been the brush size, here in the brush size palette, and the color. Well, let's talk a little bit about those options. So that is an option you can turn on or off for different brushes. Now you'll notice on this one, the color blending is turned off. And the smooth version of that just stays wet a little bit longer, just adding a little bit of that texture still. So there's that big husky brush, which when you make a mark that's slow, it kind of feels like it's got thicker paint, but as soon as you go fast, it dries out a little bit. In the India ink category, the bit husky and the smooth brush are really fun brushes to use as well.
So we have a little bit of that flatness and a little bit of this texture, and it feels a little bit like a palette knife. So for example, this oil paint flat brush on its own can be quite flat, but when I combine it with some gouache brush edges, we're really starting to get some nice, traditional looks. They don't pretend to be the most realistic brushes, but when combined with each other, you can get really beautiful results. And even though it has less texture, once again, one thing I appreciate about these brushes is they're controllable. I'll come here to a smaller brush size here. Another one I use often is the oil paint flat brush. It's a real simple way, an intuitive way, really, of blending these colors in a really traditional format. This is just the normal blending from the brush, but if I want to have a little more control over it, I can just grab this orange, you know, color select it, blend in, grab that red again, bring that back in, you know, grab this blue. Going to just intensify that red a little bit. Again, we're taking advantage of this temporary tool switching that we talked about earlier. So I'll select this blue and just keep painting. So for example, I'll just go ahead and color pick this blue here by tapping, and you'll see down here in the color palette on the bottom left, how as I just drag my color picker around the canvas, it's picking up whatever color is directly underneath my cursor. And it's just one more way that you can blend colors together very quickly, in addition to the normal color blending that comes with the brushes. Now on the keyboard, if you're on a Mac, if you press and hold Option, or if you're on Windows, it'll be the Alt key, well that temporarily switches my brush to the eyedropper tool. This might be a good opportunity to introduce the temporary tool switch to the eyedropper tool. And that's what I really love about Clip Studio's brush engine, is the color blending just feels controllable, but it blends enough to give us a little bit of that traditional feel. I'm going to move over to a color here, and you'll immediately start seeing how easily and beautifully these gouache brushes blend colors with one another. Moving over to the brush category, I'm often using the thick paint sub tool category, and the gouache brushes are really, really nice. It's basically like the G pen, but just has a little bit of that textured edge that gives it just a little more of that traditional feel.
And I also end up going to the textured pen quite often. It's got a nice kind of thick to thin to thick feel, and it reminds me of just a, you know, kind of an architectural felt tip pen. Another one I like to use as well is the tapered pen. And the G pen is just a solid, smooth inking pen, super fun to use, beautiful taper, and just smooth overall. And I'm just going to go down here to a black color and maybe increase my size a little bit. Coming over here to the pen category, one I use a lot is the G pen. Now we've already used the rough pencil in our demo so far, but I'm just going to go through a few default Clip Studio brushes that I keep coming back to in my daily work, even though I've also imported a lot of other third party brushes. Now, Clip Studio comes with a good set of quality default brushes, and there are tons of brushes you can purchase online and import from third party vendors. Let's talk a little bit about what I feel is Clip Studio's biggest strength, which is its smooth and powerful brush engine.
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