Need opinions on my recipe. Too high in contrast? Does the yellow get lost in the brown?

[smoky gulch]

I've been in a bubble with only myself and my Imperial fist for so long now, i cant tell if it looks good or not. C&C very welcome!

[spice oasis]

i think they look great, definitely not losing the yellow in the brown

[torpid harbor]

What’s your full process?

[smoky gulch]

Thank you! That's nice to hear

[smoky gulch]

Honestly a lot of back and forth, but these are the main steps:

• basecoat yellow ochre

• paint the shaded areas opaque warm brown

• stipple and then layer edges brown/yellow

• mix progressively brighter yellows, layer and glaze

• highlight with pure ice yellow

• go back and forth and fix everything

Shaded areas being all the under sides of any yellow surface.

[torpid harbor]

The yellow slaps but you could push it to the next level with more hue shifts. Pushthe darkest spots towards the red spectrum a bit more

If you prime in red, spray a gradient of white on top (as yellow coverage is never great) and add layers of yellow over you could achieve that, it already looks good though

And this is just me but I like to grime my metal up with some muddy thing like Agrax earth shade and then dry brush a little silver after it’s well dried

I don’t do edge highlights so for the extreme edge highlights directionally down onto areas that would catch the light I just carefully dry brush with a small square head brush with the extreme bright shade and yellow hue