Photo Demo: Shading Dye With An Art Brush

[JustKate]

Here's a little exercise for those of you trying to create shading effects with your art brush.

Start with heavily reduced dye. For this, I used about 1 ml of reducer (denatured alcohol) with about 4 drops of dye. Use a flat shader brush (this one is a #6), and load the brush VERY DRY.

Go back over the line in multiple passes. On the next pass, make short strokes from the original line just a bit to the side beyond where the dye ended on the previous pass.

On each pass, make the strokes just a tiny bit longer, going just beyond the point where you ended on the previous pass.

To make the color stronger or more intense, add more dye, and start the same process over.

Here's an example of how that can be used.

[Jaymack]

Thanks for the tutorial Kate!

[David8386]

Thanks for taking the time for this.

David