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>>5153959
I don't have a tutorial, but I can try to explain. Pic related.

The workflow for a hard round brush is roughly the following:

Identify two colors you want to blend
Set your brush to half opacity
Pick one of the colors with the color picker
Make a stroke where the colors meet
You now have an average of the two colors (it creates two new colors)
Reduce the size of your brush
Pick the new colors you've created
Make a stroke where the old colors meet this new color, creating several new borders in the process
Repeat as often as necessary

Basically you're building a gradient with opacity rather than smudging

I made a picture for you. The first step is the two colors. The second is what happens with the 50% opacity brush. The third image is the 50% opacity brush that is 1/2 the size of the first brush. And the fourth image is the rest of the owl where I've done about a dozen iterations on it.