■ Painting a Creature Skin 183- From the Tool palette select the Simple brush. Turn off ZAdd so only RGB is on. Select
a cool white (RGB 240 241 244) and paint the stinger with this base color. Next,
select a cool dark brown (RGB 72 63 53) and paint around the base and tip of the horn.
When switching between colors, you may find it helpful to use the V hotkey. Pressing V
will swap between the active and secondary color swatches.- From the Tool palette select the Deco brush. Turn off the texture in the Texture pal-
ette. Turn down the draw size, and with the same brown selected, draw some strokes
down the length of the stinger. - Select the base color again and drag strokes of the lighter color into the bark stripes at
the top and base of the horn (Figure 5.42). - Select the Blur brush from the Tool palette. Make sure RGB is on and stroke over the
deco strokes. This will soften the strokes and blur them slightly (Figure 5.43).
Figure 5.44 Stinger squiggly pattern
Figure 5.42 Brown on the tip and base of horn
and Deco strokes on the stinger; then, white
strokes dragged into the dark
Figure 5.43 Blurred strokes