Photoshop Painting- Image (Peach)

Here is the same case study, new fruit and new application. This digital painting was done using the photograph in the top left. This time i used only photoshop, and it’s brushes.
I accidentally flatted the initial sketch sorry!
Then you can see i blocked in the basic colours with a size size 60 brush at about 60% opacity 100% hardness. The file size was 8″x8″ 300dpi.

After i lowered the brush opacity to 20% to blend the colours and often used a smaller size 30 brush, still 100% hardness. Keep sampling the blended overlapping colours and brush till you are get a nice gradient.

For a finishing touch i applied a texture to the brush to get a fuzzy, spotted look on some highlights. I never used any blur, smudge, dodge or burn tools at all.