When
attempting to render areas of shifting value or color, I find
that laying down narrow brush strokes of successively graduated
tone and/or color yields good results (i.e. these zones of value
would resemble a "bulls-eye" around the highlight
of a rendered sphere). This effect can be softened by lightly
scrubbing the areas with a brush-- dampened but not wet. If
the increments of value are close enough and the width of each
strip narrow enough, it may not be necessary to "soften"
the effect, as the viewer's eye will perceive the blending to
be complete. This is especially true in illustrations that will
be reduced during reproduction.
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