by cmarie
Elstree wrote:
I think it's worth noting, though, the purpose of dry brushing isn't just to create contrast where there's texture; it's to create highlights on raised areas that will contrast with the darker colors in the recesses. The usual method involves dry brushing a lighter color over a darker one.
Right. Thanks for clearing this up for any beginners I might have misled, Elstree. I was trying to allude to what you pointed out by referring to my unorthodox process as "in reverse." In my situation, I was unwilling to strip the entire mini and start over, but I didn't like the look of the full-coverage layer of a pretty light color that my inept attempts at drybrushing had created. So I settled for doing something else that is not the usual method of color selection. (Incidentally, if you do a Google image search on rats, once in a while you will see one with some darker "lowlight" hairs on top and a lighter coat underneath. That helps me feel marginally better about how mine turned out, in a pretty neurotic way.)
If a person were dry brushing something other than fur, color layering in reverse would probably not be a viable option.
P.S. I hope this post does not come across as sounding defensive, I am just trying to shed some light on how I arrived at the decision to do something that contradicts normal highlight/shadow reasoning.
