potent path
Hey,
I'm trying to give give this monster a sort of purple glow from below and a dark blue nightly osl from above.
I feel it is very dark and I want to make it look more vibrant from below and blend it better on top.
Any tips please? I only started painting about a month ago and still have loads to learn and practice.
Thanks in advance!
golden creek
that looks pretty fantastic for a month of learning. Really nice job showing the volumes.
For brighter/more vibrant, don't worry too much about going too far. Pick a brighter highlight color and layer it on smaller. Use a pinker violet underneath with more contrast. Just try stuff, and when it's too much you can put thin layers over it to draw it back.
In that picture from behind I think the muscle shading looks great, but I'd keep using brighter layers on the flats to bring it up a little higher. I imagine if you check a reference it'll go higher value like that.
Some parts looks like white drybrushing. If you want more saturation there you can glaze on a highlight color just for the hue.
Glaze basically just means using very thinned paint but without much paint on the brush, so it doesn't run like a wash. Setting up a glaze is basically the same as a wash but drain your brush more. You can check the consistency on a fingernail.
You also mentioned wanting smoother blends, which you can also get with glazes, going back and forth between the two colors like a series of micro layers. It helps to keep layers thin in the first place and stipple the edges with texture rather than use hard lines.
For my personal preferences, I think it looks smooth enough already and I'd focus on getting light and color the way you want it. Blending issues you notice in closeup photos disappear at arms length and sometimes making thing smoother makes them look less defined at a distance, so it depends what you're going for.
potent path
that looks pretty fantastic for a month of learning. Really nice job showing the...
Wow thank you so much for all that info. I started upgrading the monster today and it already looks a lot better.
I hated the white drybrushing but had no idea what paint to pick to improve the contrast in the right way.
Thanks a million 🙏🙏🙏
golden creek
Happy to help 🙂 Post updated photos if you'd like
Despite how many good learning resources there are for mini painting, I found it pretty hard to learn because there's no clear indicator of what I was doing wrong. Also every technique seems to need its own obtuse jargon.
potent path
Happy to help 🙂 Post updated photos if you'd like
Despite how many good learnin...
I will! I redid the belly a little to get rid of the harsher white drybrushed highlights, today is the day for layering and glazing 😎
My wife did remind me today that it's already 2 months ago when I finally picked up my first paint brush 😅
Time flies by when you're having fun apparently 😎
golden creek
Nice now that's vibrant 🙂 nice blending between colors
You might want to keep the darks darker for more general contrast, depends what you're looking for. I think the muscle definition is really nice
The "if you go too far you can bring it back with very thin layers" thing I talked about is neat. If I want to add a red highlight onto something dark, rather than slowly building up red (poor coverage) I can highlight with white or orange and then paint red over it later. Or you can block in highlights kind of roughly and then draw things together later
I think that ridge on his head could get more highlight. In general the back view is easier to understand than the front
