Vertex Painting in Blender: Tools

Intermediate, Theory, Practical

Description

Let’s cover all the basics necessary to do vertex painting using Blender 3.3 or later. Here’s what’s covered in this class:

  • In-depth exploration of the Paint, Smear, Color Filter and Mask by Color paint brushes.
  • The different strokes and noises at our disposal to modify our brush stroke.
  • All the important brush settings to paint organic albedos.
  • Importing and using alphas on our brushes.
  • Skin color theory and common skin tones.
  • Using and saving color swatches and color palettes.

 

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1 comment

  1. Johan Mol says:
    May 22, 2025 at 12:15 pm

    Hi Laura,

    Thank you for these great lessons, first of all!

    At 22m25s you asked about a way to do a flood fill while vertex painting.
    I was wondering about that as well, so I looked it up.
    In Blender 4.4 you can do that with Ctrl+X (Set Vertex Colors).
    Might not have been available in Blender 3.3.
    And you need to be in Vertex Paint mode, since it doesn’t work from within Sculpt Mode.

    Kind regards,

    Johan

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