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Help Painting advice.

Discussion in 'Painting and Converting' started by RighteousBrother, May 1, 2017.

  1. Jorgik
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    Jorgik Well-Known Member

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    You could just paint the shields the same colour as the skin with a finishing agrax earthshade wash to tone it down
     
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  2. Aphotic
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    Aphotic Active Member

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    This and then a night Stormhost Silver highlight to make it really pop, would help add to the brightness!

    Alternatively, you could go for a more "stone/marble" weaponry for the weapons.
     
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  3. RighteousBrother
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    RighteousBrother New Member

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    Stone/marble sounds cool but complicated haha
     
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  4. Crowsfoot
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    Crowsfoot Guardian of Paints Staff Member

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    Not as complicated as you think, the shield was painted black first then drybrushed Incubi darkness, then drybrushed randomly with stegadon green then with a fine detail brush take pallid wych white and quickly and softly stroke the shield in random directions, then glaze randomly with biel tan green

    [​IMG]
     
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  5. Aphotic
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    Aphotic Active Member

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    That's gorgeous. Is this a picture of one of your models?
     
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  6. Crowsfoot
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    Crowsfoot Guardian of Paints Staff Member

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    It is yes, I think page 22/23 of my blog, and thank you.
     
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  7. RighteousBrother
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    Thanks for such an awesome and detailed response! I have some time off coming up and will let you know how it all goes :)
     
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  8. n810
    Slann

    n810 First Spawning

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    I did a simple hue shift on the left shield,
    in order to compare the saturation and brightness.
    to the unaltered blue shield on the right.
    image-paint-test-1.jpg
     
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  9. Bowser
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    Bowser Third Spawning

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    New hue definitely looks better.
     
  10. deer riffs
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    deer riffs Well-Known Member

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    New shield colour looks awesome. Really pops against the scales. What process are you thinking for the skin now?
     
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  11. Aphotic
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    Looks great. Secretly I was hoping you'd try purple just to see if it really does work with yellow in practice, and I think it does. I like the "new" hue too.
     
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  12. RighteousBrother
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    What do you think the best way to achieve this result would be?

    I've finished a brutal few weeks of work and now I'll be free to start painting!

    I think I'll leave the skin how i have it and touch Up and wash the red.

    What do you think?
     
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  13. n810
    Slann

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    Purple you say.
    image-paint-test-2.jpg
     
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  14. deer riffs
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    deer riffs Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, a wash is all it'd need and then another layer of the red you've already done on the raised surfaces, eg: biceps.
     
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