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?

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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