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Post by sgtslag on Dec 18, 2014 18:59:21 GMT
I have a couple of hundred pieces of terrain I need to dry-brush. I'm curious whether anyone has ever successfully used a flat-/wedge-shaped sponge to dry brush terrain pieces?
A bit more info: I cut up a 4' x 8' piece of extruded foam insulation into oddly shaped ovals. These pieces will be textured, and then painted, and dry-brushed, to finish them. They will then be placed, end-to-end, on a mottled sheet of dark gray/brown fabric, used as a ground cloth. The foam pieces will form modular walls, to form caverns of various designs.
The foam pieces were cut up on a band saw, so they need to have a more rock-like surface prior to painting. This is being accomplished by hot gluing strips of crumpled brown paper grocery bags to the sides, wrapping them across the tops and bottoms. The crumpled paper bags yield a decent rock-like texture. I am painting these a charcoal-gray, using latex house paint (it's a standard color chip, so no worries about mixing dye lots between cans of paint).
I dry-brushed a test piece last night. It came out looking very acceptable for my needs, but I am concerned about brushes: I will have 180-200 pieces to dry-brush, and that will go through quite a lot of brushes before I am finished! Cheers!
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Post by adamantinedragon on Dec 18, 2014 19:15:48 GMT
I've never used sponge or foam to do drybrushing, but I've heard other folks say it works OK. Dry brushing is hard on brushes, but I assume it is hard on sponges too. I usually use old brushes or brushes I've bought at the dollar store or thrift shop for my dry brushing.
Looking forward to some pics of your results!
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Post by curufin on Dec 18, 2014 20:21:16 GMT
I only have ever used a sponge for stippling. I think it would be much harder to do successfully, than dry-brushing with a brush. Maybe I am some sort of dry-brushing anomaly, but dry-brushing is the only painting technique I know. I have used the same brush for dry-brushing textures in terrain and accessories. Before that I used it as a glue brush. All told the brush is over 5 years old. I have no idea where I got it, but I have a feeling that it came in some sort of variety pack. This is it: Most of the paint on the handle has fallen off but what is still legible says: something-RARYCRAFTS(trademark) 245B Wash China It is 1 inch wide, but going even wider would probably help. I feel like you should be able to dry-brush all of your tiles and more on a single brush. Just spitballing here...
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Post by rane on Dec 18, 2014 23:09:41 GMT
I've tried dry brushing my foamcore tiles with a sponge to try to get a more grainy stone effect but I had a hard time doing it and picking up all the engraved details of the tile
I had to end up going back to my brush and it was pretty quick and easy
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Post by DnDPaladin on Dec 19, 2014 3:28:34 GMT
dry brushing can be donw with everyting, dry brushing is basically just that... not enough paint on a brush and just barely touching the surface of the stuff. not saying ive ever done it with a sponge... but im quite sure it can be done. its only a matter of technique. i've also seen scotty do a stamp out of a sponge... maybe that could be used to create the same kind of dry brushing.
i dont remember in which vid it was though... i think it was in his 2.5d next mat video but im not sure anymore.
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Post by DMScotty on Dec 19, 2014 16:27:51 GMT
I have drybushed with sponges but it usually depends on what kind of effect I am going for. It works well for stone.
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