Currently Krita fakes their blurring brushes by using the Color Smudge Engine, it does a OK job but it’s not ideal as it makes the blur feel more like a smudge rather than true blur, which makes sense since it literally is a smudge with a slight blur filter.
From what I could inspect the blur brush in Clip studio is basically a gaussian blur and the strength of the blur is linked to the pen pressure but they also allow you to use a fixed value incase you want the blur strength to remain the same, that’s how I think they achieve their blur brush.
Here’s 2 videos comparing between the two software
Krita - Default Blend Blur
Clip Studio - Default Blur
Discovered that someone before also wanted something like this
More posts showing how this “blur brush” is more like a “smear brush”
More reason to get a proper blur engine implemented, Don’t forget to vote people!
Sorry, but “proper” is indicating that krita does something fundamentally wrong.
This is not the case if you are not able to phrase the problem you have in words.
I can not see what the problem is, you are trying to convey.
It is fundamentally wrong, its called a blur brush, but it looks more like a smear than a blur and that’s my only nitpick with Krita. Blending colors can be so annoying at times because of this.
In your latest example, we can see you use a very strong brush. Did you try the one I displayed?
All this is customizable, My sample does much more like what you expect. You should take the time to play with it
This is how more or less the blur brush in CSP works but they also have a fixed value mode that allows you to set the blur strength to a specific value
The filter/effect brush engine is not ideal for this as its too slow
Changed the blur brush to not use length or radius.
Even with tweaking settings that won’t achieve the intended look because the Color Smudge Engine fundamentally can’t produce a blur brush, it will always have that smear look to it which shouldn’t happen with a blur brush, that’s why i made this feature request so we can get a proper blur brush for krita.
It could be a new brush engine or just additions to the color smudge engine incase it feels too minor to be granted a brand new engine.
It’s obvious from the brush preview that you are configuring it wrong. The dynamics in your screenshot are all off, so I wonder how you proceed.
Here is my preview:
with smearing
Will it work for you ? If you calibrate to your pen and hand pressure.
Everything is tweakable and worth a test in those options. Some may be crucial while they might look insignificant (got you, spacing)
