RCD2

Hey guys! COMPLETE and utter newbie here. I'm working on a character and painting in the wrinkles in his clothes as normal maps. I've run into a problem tho with smoothing stuff out. If I just hold shift and try and smooth stuff out it will look really blotchy and bad, and if I use the eraser I can't get it to have smooth edges, it will just dig kind of a hole. So my question is, I guess, how do I smooth stuff out best?

Hey guys! COMPLETE and utter newbie here. I'm working on a character and painting in the wrinkles in his clothes as normal maps. I've run into a problem tho with smoothing stuff out. If I just hold shift and try and smooth stuff out it will look really blotchy and bad, and if I use the eraser I can't get it to have smooth edges, it will just dig kind of a hole. So my question is, I guess, how do I smooth stuff out best?