To be very honest with you, I was afraid to start using the smudge/blend tool again bc it reminds me of my traumatic formative times before i even comprehended getting a twitter lol
I was so reliant on this tool like holy shittttt i used it all over a characters face, ALL shadows, hell i would even use it to make background gradients liek this one
Actually now that i think about it this is me confronting my two most overused tools before i had photoshop
BLEND + AIRBRUSH
(war flashbacks)
anyway, pt. 2 will be switcharoo