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Hey guys! Amateur traditional artist moving to digital media here.

I was doing some exercises at Ctrl + Paint and encountered something that kinda stumped me. After watching this video on controlled brush strokes, I tried to do his exercise worksheet. He said to focus on practicing smooth rendering and avoiding visible brush strokes. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong exactly, but I can't seem to get the "smooth fade" effect he talks about at all! No matter what I do there's always some visible brush marks. What am I doing wrong, are my brush settings wrong or something? I've got both opacity and flow set to pen pressure.

Here is my completed exercise so you can see what I mean.

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