phil_h
A Fixture
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Hello Everybody...
I had a little less time than I thought I would this weekend (The boy and I kinda went a little nuts with some Legos - but that's another story...)
Anyway, I did finish the legs, and I took enough photos to go into a little more detail as to how I'm painting the armor. I'll be using her left piece of thigh armor to show what's going on... (You'll also noticed I painted her leggings as well.)
One thing to keep in mind is that there is not going to be as much light hitting her legs compared to her chest, so there will be more shadow and mid-tone color, and the highest high light will be closer to a high mid-tone rather than a true high light. As with all NMM, placement of where you put your lights and shadows will make or break the whole thing, so it's vital that you know where you are going to place them.
First, using pure Titanium White, I paint where I want my high lights to go - just paint it right on. This will be pretty rough and scary looking:
Next, once the high light is marked, I then take some grey, and soften up the edges. This is going to help the blending look smoother when applying the glazes:
It's kind of hard to see in this photo, but next is the purple shadow. You can see however, a very slight nasty, rough looking purple glaze over the mid tones and highlight areas:
Now we can start with all the green tones. First we just glaze over the entire thing with the mid-tone green color. Here is what it looks like after the very first pass - again, it'll look very rough:
And here is what the armor looks like after a few more glazes. As we glaze more, we want to make sure that we cover less highlight and more mid-tone with each layer. It's at this point here where it'll slowly start to come together and stop looking like garbage
Here is the finished thigh armor. Two important things have been done in this step. The first being the addition of Winsor & Newton's Emerald Green Ink to the glazing process - this adds a really deep richness to the overall look. The second, is finishing up the details - edges, rivets, etc. It's these details that help tie everything together. Also once they're in place, we can do a final check on the lighting, making sure everything is where we want it to be:
And here is where we're currently at, with both legs finished. Her right leg from the thigh down will be completely covered up by her cloak - that's why it's considerably darker then her left (I had to constantly put her cloak on and off to check the lights).
Regards,
Phil
I had a little less time than I thought I would this weekend (The boy and I kinda went a little nuts with some Legos - but that's another story...)
Anyway, I did finish the legs, and I took enough photos to go into a little more detail as to how I'm painting the armor. I'll be using her left piece of thigh armor to show what's going on... (You'll also noticed I painted her leggings as well.)
One thing to keep in mind is that there is not going to be as much light hitting her legs compared to her chest, so there will be more shadow and mid-tone color, and the highest high light will be closer to a high mid-tone rather than a true high light. As with all NMM, placement of where you put your lights and shadows will make or break the whole thing, so it's vital that you know where you are going to place them.
First, using pure Titanium White, I paint where I want my high lights to go - just paint it right on. This will be pretty rough and scary looking:
Next, once the high light is marked, I then take some grey, and soften up the edges. This is going to help the blending look smoother when applying the glazes:
It's kind of hard to see in this photo, but next is the purple shadow. You can see however, a very slight nasty, rough looking purple glaze over the mid tones and highlight areas:
Now we can start with all the green tones. First we just glaze over the entire thing with the mid-tone green color. Here is what it looks like after the very first pass - again, it'll look very rough:
And here is what the armor looks like after a few more glazes. As we glaze more, we want to make sure that we cover less highlight and more mid-tone with each layer. It's at this point here where it'll slowly start to come together and stop looking like garbage
Here is the finished thigh armor. Two important things have been done in this step. The first being the addition of Winsor & Newton's Emerald Green Ink to the glazing process - this adds a really deep richness to the overall look. The second, is finishing up the details - edges, rivets, etc. It's these details that help tie everything together. Also once they're in place, we can do a final check on the lighting, making sure everything is where we want it to be:
And here is where we're currently at, with both legs finished. Her right leg from the thigh down will be completely covered up by her cloak - that's why it's considerably darker then her left (I had to constantly put her cloak on and off to check the lights).
Regards,
Phil
