[slorak]

drybrushing is a technique where you take a bit of paint on your brush and dab it until only a light transfer of color occurs and then you brush it onto your figure. It should leave behind just a faint amount of the pigment and tend to stay to the higher areas of the model.

This is usually seen as a beginner method of doing highlights.

Personally I only use drybrushing on certain things such as rocks, and other basing elements and try to keep it to a minimum on the actual figure as it tends to build up in a chalky unrealistic manner. A better method for adding highlights to a figure would be to layer up color or use wet blending.

Cheers,

-Mike