From the course: Learning Digital Painting
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Brush color behavior
Color is another crucial component of the brush engine. After all, color is what the tip delivers to the canvas. Brush color can mean many different things. It can mean an individual solid color or it can be many colors. It can be the color of existing imagery, literally flowing through the brush. The absence of color can transform a brush from a color applying tool to one that can impart the expressive characteristics of the tip to underlying existing color, much as a dry brush does on wet paint. Let's take a look at color. Now, the simplest version of color coming off of a brush is just taking the existing color and painting with it. So there we go. That is just simple color, a solid color coming off of the brush. However, we can get into some interesting situations where we start to use multiple colors. In this case, I'm actually taking a multiple sampling color picker and selecting colors from my mixer and using them on my brush. So this model is very much the effect of a…
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