DRY BRUSHING

If it works for you and you're happy with the results, keep doing it. It's one way of getting quick highlights. I still dry brush fur or textured hair on my figures and just used dome of this technique in 1.48 seats for a commission The drawback is that it tends to bring the highlights to the bottom of a fold where careful application of highlights can keep the light exactly where you want it.

I read somewhere else that dry-brushing was falling out of favor, but I don't know why.

My modeling skills are not great, but dry-brushing a black instrument panel with silver makes it pop right out.  I have seen others that are somehow able to paint individual gauges, and do fantastic detail work, but that is beyond what I am capable of.

But I have fun even with my modest results, and no one but myself sees them anyway

I am a big fan of dry-brushing. It can do the same thing as the dot filter technique.  One suggestion- it is hard on brushes, so I keep a brush just for dry brushing.

Dry-brushing is now "out of favor"?  When did this happen and why wasn't I told about it???  Not that I'd care.  Dry-brushing is still my favorite way of making things pop.  I can make it as subtle or as bold as I choose.  Using it for applying pastels is still my #1 favorite way of doing things.  

You know this country is going to you-know-where in a handbasket if dry-brushing is suddenly falling out of favor.  

Eric

Hey ERIC !

  I had read an article in another modelers magazine , dedicated to ships and that is what was said by the author of the article . I personally don't care . I use dry brushing on ships , planes and if I want them weathered , cars and trucks ..I don't like using the airbrush for this as I can't compensate for my hands shaking as well . So I'll continue to dry-brush ! Model On !   Tanker-Builder

I have always felt that dry-brushing is not truly a separate technique but merely the extreme point in brushing.  The effect of brushing paint varies in an almost continuous manner from a brush completely saturated with paint, to a different look when lean of paint, to the extreme of an almost completely dry brush.

For instance, with either a brush or an airbrush, you can get gloss paint to look semi-gloss by putting it on in a light, dry coat, or flat paint to look semi-gloss by putting it on very heavy and wet.

And the original point by Tankerbuilder about artists using it is a good one. I tried both oil and acrylic painting many years ago as an attempt at art, and I know the skills that I learned in painting DO carry over to painting models.  For instance, I learned to mix paint to get the colors I wanted, a nice skill when I don't want to worry about searching all the hobby shops in the area to find a rare color.

I still use it all the time... not falling out of favor with me anytime soon.

Maybe he was referring just to ship builders.

Not going outta fashion for me.

I consider ships my specialty and I'm still a big user of the drybrushing technique.

I think the thing that has started people thinking this way is that a lot of folks go for "new" things.  The filter technique is a new thing, so everyone I know in modeling except me is giving it a try, and  consider any old ideas as passe'.  That and pastels- lots more of them on market lately and everyone is spending bucks buying latest pastel set.  'Course, I consider pastels a material useful in dry brushing :-)

I dunno....been using pastels for almost 2 decades, and dry brushing just as long. No desire as of yet to try the dot filter thing.

Mike :

  Hey , you should , when you have the time , try the " Dot Filter "  on that test model you hide away ! It is very useful . I knew about it , just never applied it to modeling ! Till now .       Tanker - Builder

No worries T-B. I'm sure I'll try it at some point. Having way too much fun with pastels and weathering powders at the moment.

Hey , Ruddratt !

Gotta warn you about something that just happened to me  .Maybe it has struck you too . It's called the room wide sneeze ! Well , When I got done I opened my eyes to the prettiest cloud of multi colored pastel dust you ever saw . Even my Black cat was party colored . Just thought I would let you know of this strange malady .     Tanker-Builder