Shot in the dark. Photoshop CS5 brush question

[mike boss]

I'm working with Photoshop CS5 and the default brush set.
I'm familiar now with drawing with the pen tool, and enabling the pressure.
But what do I do if I want a brush to be a certain thickness and only fade out toward the bottom of the line ?
Any idea ?

I included a sample, # 1 is the regular Photoshop default brush, then 2 is the same brush with the pressure enabled.
I'd like something like # 1 that only faded towards the bottom, where as the way it works now it fades at the top and bottom and is thickest in the middle.
That isn't what I want.

I just included this Wonka nerd character to show what I'm looking to achieve. The line is thick and tapers toward one end.

[Phreakwars]

Ask my daughter, I bought her CS6 a couple years ago and she's all into it with the tablet pen. She's pretty dang good for a 15 year old with Autism. I know she knows exactly how to do it.

http://hg-the-hamster.deviantart.com/?rnrd=473

[Vigo]

Hey Mike,

Brush pressure in photoshop is mostly designed around having a pressure sensitive touch screen or wacom tablet, so most of the pressure settings are useless with a mouse.

Photoshop does a brush option for fading the stroke with a mouse. I don't remember how brush options look in CS5, but here is how it looks for my version.

You go to the shape dynamics and set a fade on the brush. This will taper off the brush strokes in the end. You slide the Minimum diameter slider to adjust how fast it tapers down.

[mike boss]

This is giving me a real hard time.
Every time I do something I get the same result, line starts and ends thin.
Even when I go to FADE, create a stroke, then go back to check my settings it always goes back to pen pressure.
Pain in the AZZ......... I want my lines to be thick and taper to the end, but I just can not seem to get it.