its good dude can u make 1 for me.if yer pm me in my inbox.

Nice smudging
I must say u are good in smudging but the siggys are too blank i know u made it knowingly but stills..

looks really good well done.

looks good and kep it up.

Very nice! You are very good at smudging. But try adding more effects on render and background to make it more atractive
but the smudging itself is impressive

First off, I am really liking your use of colour here. The colour scheme matches the render well and you've used more than one colour to avoid it being monotone (Which can be bad for this style of smudge). Good job there :)

As for the actual smudge work, it's way too blended for me personally. Smudge is about the small detail in the strokes. For me there are two ways of increasing the detail in a smudge, and I will walk you through them both below (Assuming you use photoshop, helpful images and screenshots in the spoilers).
Both of these ways follow the same first few steps.
1) Make sure that the top layer is the layer that you have selected. You can do this in the layers palette in the bottom right of your screen (unless you've moved it). The highlighted layer is the one that is selected.


2) Create a new layer. There are a few ways of doing this. You can hover over the layer menu in the top bar, go to new> create new layer. Or you can use the shortcut ctrl + shift+ n. Lastly, you can press this little icon in the bottom of the layers palette.
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3) Apply the image. To do this go to the image menu in the top tool bar, and then select apply image. (There is a shortcut but I can't remember it)

Follow the next step for the first method:

4) Run a sharpen filter. You can find this under filter> sharpen> sharpen. Erase over the focal and possibly lower the opacity.

Follow the next few steps for the second method

4) Run a high pass filter. You can find this under the filter>others>high pass. Just leave the setting as default, you can play around with them if you really wish so.

5) Play around with blending options. Hard light or soft light are normally good here, on about 30% opacity. Find these options in the layers palette.

Also, I really like the flow you've managed to set out here. You really have a good start for a great smudge here. Good job, keep it up :)

Edit (Sorry, forgot I was going to add some further reading/tuts/inspiration and stuff):

For smudging, I have always found that the following tutorials can be rather helpful:




If you are using photoshop, it's good to just learn how to use the program as apposed to how to make tags, and this is a great website for that [you must login to view links]

On how to add attention to your focal, and create depth. This is brilliant:



If you need any further help, feel free to pm me