Ep. 29, Page 24

smbhax on June 1, 2016

So last week I said that, starting with http://smbhax.com/?e=0029 it can also make pretty wide lines or cover wide areas if need be. In other words, it's versatile! But I stopped using it at http://smbhax.com/?e=0027 I wanted to focus more on composing areas of color, rather than lines, and I was going to do that using brushes with broad heads, rather than points.

I think that was a useful thing to practice, but lately I've been a little irritated by difficulty I've had in making tidy lines or even just edges in certain situations when it would have been nice to have them; without a precise edge tool, areas of color can fail to get across critical details as readily as one would like. Now, it happened that for the page near the end of the last episode with Selenis stalking down an alleyway–http://smbhax.com/?e=0028 and the smaller One Stroke can kind of do shapes, but its rectangular head sometimes makes that a little erratic when I don't *want* it to be erratic–and it can't hold much paint at once, so it can't be used to fill in larger areas, which meant I had to use the big One Stroke for all but the tiniest areas, so medium-sized areas would definitely come out a little raggedy at the edges.

So anyway, the 8404 size 4 is back–for those medium-sized areas, and places where I need a smoother, medium-sized line. In today's page, for instance, the big One Stroke handled the large washes of color, the small One Stroke did the blocked-in cubbyholes in the background, the 8404 size 0 did the fine dark red and purple details of the faces and sword, and 8404 size 4 filled in the background color around Selenis and the sword, to keep the edges neat and tidy and preserve the outlines, and also handled the localized background color washes that produced the “glow” effect of the sword, and the 8404 size 3 did white highlights on the sword hilt and cubbyhole objects, and also tidied up a few edges and hid a few watercolor splatters here and there.

And that's all I should have to make you read about brushes for a while. : P