The leaf rib brush is a kind of brush specially used for painting, specifically for outlining leaf ribs and lines.
Yejin brushes are generally used for gongbi paintings, especially for drawing very thin lines. The Ye Jin brush has a fine tip and is often used to draw leaves, so it is named Ye Jin brush. Similar to them are the Huazhiqiao brush and the Yiwen brush, among which the Yejin brush is the thinnest and the Huazhiqiao brush is the thickest.
Extended information:
The brush is a traditional writing and painting tool originating from China. A pen made of animal hair. It is listed as one of the four treasures of the study in China. Divided into hard cents, combined cents and soft cents.
Writing brushes are made of animal hair. Rabbit hair was first used, and later sheep, ferret, wolf, chicken, rat and other animal hairs were also used. The pen barrel is made of bamboo or other materials. The head is round and pointed, used for traditional writing and drawing. Nowadays, the earliest discovered objects date from the Warring States Period. Ancient people also used human hair or beards to make writing brushes.
In traditional painting, whether it is fine brushwork or freehand brushwork, the brush is basically used to outline lines to shape the body structure; the brush is dipped in water to mix ink, as well as chaffing, rubbing, dotting, dyeing, etc. to depict objects. ; Use brushes to adjust colors and rendering techniques such as split dyeing and cover dyeing to depict objects.
The classification of brushes is mainly based on size, as well as the material of the brush tip, size, shape, etc.
According to the raw material of the pen tip, it can be divided into: fetal hair brush, wolf brush (wolf hair, that is, weasel hair), duck brush, wool brush, pig hair brush (bristle pen), mouse brush (rat whisker pen), tiger brush , ox ear hair pen, sheep hair, and wolf hair are better.
Based on commonly used sizes, brushes can be simply divided into: small regular script, medium regular script, and large regular script. Larger ones include screen pens, joint pens, fighting pens, planting pens, etc.
According to their uses, they can be divided into two categories: writing brushes and calligraphy and painting brushes.
According to the shape, it can be divided into: round hair, sharp hair, etc.
Reference materials:
Written brush-Baidu Encyclopedia