Ok, but I think we may have crossed wires with what you define as the "shading" layer.

I've whipped up a quick example of what I was hoping you would be able to use...

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If you could take two brushes like that and somehow get the program to recognise where they fit in relation to each other and then have them on two separate layers.... easy peasy. Hehe.