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Adding Scrumbling Effect to Backgrounds

Many artists like to use a technique called "Scrumbling" to add slightly contrast colored textured to backgrounds. With traditional mediums, you would simply go lightly over the background with a rough colored chalk or light acrylic brush with a lighter, darker, or contrasting color.

Without Scrumbling	With Srumbling

To produce this effect in Painter, I've created a Scrumbling "Brush" in the Charcoal brush category that picks up the Paper texture. The key to this is to create a paper that has the look you want.

To begin with I create some very feathery brush strokes using white acrylic paint on black construction paper. These will serve as my "templates" for the strokes. I scan these into the computer at 300 dpi and then select sections to capture for my papers (By the way, the same technique can be used to capture patterns).

Selection of Scanned bush strokes

 Steps

1. Make a Selection of an area to capture (the marching ants marquee will define the area)
2. Go into the Art materials dialog box, and click on the right most arrow in the black bar for papers.
3. Choose capture paper.
4. Name the paper. It will then appear as an icon in the paper list

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