Painting jeans?

We used to have an awesome guide on painting realistic blue jeans on the site, I checked the wiki and couldnt find it... anyone have it?

I don't have the official guide, but how I do it is to lay down a coat of medium blue, then do a wash of either dark blue or black, then a heavy dry-brush of light blue, then an optional very light dry-brush of white.

do you leave it rough as to let it look textured? or does the dry brushing just make it look that way?

do you leave it rough as to let it look textured? or does the dry brushing just make it look that way?

Yeah, the dry-brushing accomplishes the texture look pretty well.

Sa-weet. I shall try that then. Thank you sir.

On your first coat, try to keep all your brush strokes going in the same direction. Pick a diagonal and stick with it so that when you dry brush your lighter color on top, it'll give the look of the weave on blue jeans.

I did a blue jean jacket once. I did a base coat of light gray, then a wash of navy. See here

Hrm, ill have to try both methods. Thanks guys!

I've done both the light colored drybrush over a darker base, and the wash over the light base. I preffer the wash technique for light faded denim, and the drybrushing for darker denim, with just a little wear on it.

BTW, best old faded denim color I've found is Model Master acryl RAF Sky Type. It's pretty pale, but not a pure blue. It's got a very slight tan-ish cast to it, that really reminds me of old denim.