Terrain Paints:
I often use terrain paints, they are a cheap way of just making a garden work, if you can blend them then you can make a fantastic looking garden or area. For this brief tutorial I built a house and landscaped the front garden, I used the Grass and Dirt paints.
So we start with this little house here, looks pretty boring heh? Well I think some terrain mixing and some planting will change that dramatically!
So I first mark out my borders where I want vegetation and the dirt paints to go.
Here are the Three dirt paints I will use, A dark, medium and light mix of dirt for the border, I will use the darker dirt in the shadows or against the walls, the middle one on the middle and the light dirt around plants or the edges.
Now you can't see the shading here since the majority is in shadow.
Now we start on the Grass, here are the better of the grass types you can use, the sand is so they stick out from the base grass.
Now with a mix of the grass paints I can end up with this as a final result, does it look more realistic?
Now here is the final product, I added some little flower paints to the edges of the path. The best way to blend terrain paints is using the least bold option of the brush strengh, it is much easier to blend then!
I hope this may have helped you with some blending techniques or how to do it!
