#Feedback on highlighting please

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valid rock
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Hey guys. Newb here learning to highlight. I recorded a video since every single photo I took the colours looked wrong but it looks more accurate in a video. Feedback please. Am I doing this right? More blending needed? Wrong shapes of the highlights? Feedback would be appreciated thank you,

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@vague shuttle I gave it a solid crack, would love your input also please and thank you.

vague shuttle
vague shuttle
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Ok so with hair you typically want to highlight a halo around the top of the head. Look up Vince Venturella on youtube he has good hair tutorials.

For the general highlights you’re heading in the right direction but you need to add more midtones before jumping straight to highlights. For example the entire face is your current darkest colour (aka your shadow) - you need to bring some of your highlights and midtones there.

Similarly with the ears - light is going to reach pretty well everywhere except the deepest parts so put some light in there.

Here is a mock up - it’s not perfect just a sketch to sort of point you in the direction of what I mean.

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valid rock
# vague shuttle Ok so with hair you typically want to highlight a halo around the top of the hea...

haha yeah I watched his video on doing blond hair and it was great and I did my best to follow it. THe trouble is every hair video I watched didn't have the entire top of the head in light so they all did lines from the forhead heading back, but my model the entire top of th head is directly in light so i did my best to do similar but it got a bit out of control.

Thanks for the mockups it helps and will look at this again when i get time

valid rock
vague shuttle
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You’re still overthinking things haha.

What’s the most important part of the model?

Typically it is the face - that is the unique feature.

Make sure the face is in light

valid rock
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vague shuttle
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I mean this is art and it’s subjective and everything changes by material. There will never be a perfect set of instructions for you.

At the end of the day if you think what you have painted looks cool that’s all that matters.

I’d just say look at material references, art references, and any references really that you like and just be inspired by those and try to paint them.

It’s a journey and you need to put your reps in.

valid rock
vague shuttle
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That comes with practice

valid rock
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yes

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all my models should arrive this week, so I will have 4 ork war bosses to practice on 😄

valid rock
# vague shuttle That comes with practice

yeah totally I also think I can learn it. like how doe this look when sun is on it. and what shape do i make the higlight etc etc.. all of this will start to make sense eventually

dreamy moth
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dreamy moth
valid rock
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Best thing about 3d printing is creating things that don’t exist at the shops. you are so offended by it but don’t know the characters name 🤣 it’s grogu not baby yoda. I think it’s cool haha

dreamy moth
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dreamy moth
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lol

valid rock