My first post here. Actually I've been reading these forums for quite a while, just didn't have the courage to ask.
Don't know what's the proper term for it, the subject in question is the effect shown in the photos below (I stole them from a ebay store named 2deli).
I assumed they were painted together when doing paint chips, but how does one paint dots that small, and so closely grouped together? It doesn't looked like achieved through whitewashing/scraping or sprinkling pigments (I've tried normal pastel, grinded graphite and MIG pigments).
This thing had bugged me for quite a while. I've also tried making masks (poking dots on thin plastic films) and airbrush, that didn't work out either. The closest result I've gotten to was by paintstakingly rearranging mig pigment powder under magnifier using hairline paint brush, but the powder is very fragile when set on like this, and there's no way I could overcoat that and seal it.
Please teach me how. Every time I see these perfectly done paint wears, a mixture of envy, jealousy, pain and hatrate started to burn in my chest...