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evenworse username posted:So thank you to the lovely people in here who suggested using purple wash to shade red; it appears to be voodoo. This thread rules. A dark violet should work. That's what I would use if I was drawing in color. Based on what I remember from an advanced drawing class years ago, these are generally the colors you want to use to tint or shade your color: Yellow: white for tints, brown for shades Orange: yellow or white for tints, brown or red for shades Red: white or pink for tints, violet or blue for shades Violet: white or red for tints, blue or black for shades Blue: white for tints, black for shades Green: yellow or white for tints, blue or black for shades Something to consider when working with color is that you can use adjacent colors on the color wheel to lighten or darken your base color. Pure hues also have a natural value to them, meaning that some colors are naturally lighter or darker than others. Yellow is brighter than violet. Blue is darker than orange. If you gradually add violet to a red, you can create a more painterly and natural shadow. Also, complimentary colors will neutralize each other when they are mixed. Mixing blue with orange will create a brown. Mixing all three primary colors will also neutralize into a brown as well. Neutralizing colors just a little bit with their compliments is a good way to mix a more natural color, like adding a little bit of red to a green to create a forest green.
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I'm trying out a blue/white/green color scheme on these genestealers. I primed them in white, washed over them with a dark blue, and am going over them again with a white drybrush. I'm mainly trying to get them table quality and have only done these two models. I'm looking for feedback. 
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Mar 27, 2015 05:59
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How do you pin all that stuff together, anyway? I've tried using sticky tack but it doesn't hold on to the plastic very well.
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w00tmonger posted:Painting a bunch of skin-tone for a dude but its coming out a bit similar to his copper armor. Use blue in places where there would be shadow and that should help a little. It doesn't help that copper is already a pretty neutralized color and so is human skin.
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Am I crazy for wanting to prime models using Liquitex spray paint instead of Krylon? Besides the difference in price, that is.
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Jul 18, 2015 21:57
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Stuff I painted this weekend: I have the absolute worst lighting at home without taking it all outside on a clear day.
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You could try scoring the surfaces that you're applying the glue to. Also don't use very much.
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Jul 24, 2015 20:34
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spectralent posted:I kind of want to do a digital camo scheme on some near-future sci fi vehicles I'm painting; something like this. For miniatures of vehicles that small, I would use some kind of rubber block that's a square to stamp on to the surface.
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Jul 31, 2015 00:39
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:There's definitely stamps that would have that shape, but I'm not sure they'd work great with paint and on uneven surfaces. I've made cuts from rubber blocks for printmaking projects and used acrylic paint with them before, so I believe that it's doable. I just don't know how easy it would be on something like a 6mm tank, but it was the best conclusion I could think of on the spot.
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Jul 31, 2015 01:40
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Black rims thug lyfe
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Ugh. There are days when painting models that I think everything I ever learned during my career as an art major about painting needs to be thrown out the window.
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I saw a set of markers at a hobby store yesterday called Gundam Markers. Does anyone have experience using markers like these?
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Well, I have a pile of Sakura Pigma Microns already. I've even taken a few of the brush tipped pens to sandpaper so I can get a dry brush effect out of them. I've just never seen paint markers like these Gundam Markers before. They'd probably be pretty nice to have for painting flames and stuff on Salamanders vehicles.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:IMO for that specific case (flame designs), you get more control out of a brush. My drawing career begs to differ, but whatever. I think I'll just get a white one for writing tags on my vehicles.
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There is nothing more terrifying than the scorn of fifty goons over your chosen brand of paint and model storage.
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signalnoise posted:I have a small room that I'm turning into my hobby room, for painting minis or whatever else. I need to paint the walls, and it has a low-hanging fluorescent shop light in there. Do you think that the wall color would mess with my perception of color on my minis? Possibly. The color of the walls can be reflected on to everything else in the room and tint it just ever so slightly. It's much more apparent in photography when you photograph models or any kind of fine art for documentation. But I doubt that it would do much to your perception of color. I'd just paint the walls in some kind of neutral color.
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Crossposting from the 40k thread:Star Man posted:Welp, my project this week is to get this image painted on to a space marine command squad banner: Have most of my colors blocked in. Now comes the fun part of doing all the poo poo I've ever learned as an oil painter on such a tiny format. 
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Aug 9, 2015 04:48
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Silhouette posted:I just want you to know that I support your endeavor 1000%. Well, it is now.
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It's pretty amateur-ish, but I'll live with it.
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head58 posted:Any advice on paint color/combination of colors to get that peachish, pinkish, reddish desert stone look like you see in Bryce or Zion Canyons? (Reference: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Delicate_arch_sunset.jpg) Off the top of my head: mix all three primary colors together at different ratios. Go mostly for red and yellow and a little bit of blue to neutralize. Making browns like this is the best way to mix natural neutral colors.
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Aug 11, 2015 00:13
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One day I'm going to make an effort post on mixing colors and all the things I learned in color theory. You too will learn the horrors of trying match the color of cardboard.
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Sometimes, while working with green stuff, I have to resist the urge to eat this green tacky stuff that makes me want to think it's taffy.
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GreenMarine posted:Martian Skitarii have a sort of white checker pattern lining their red robes They're cogs.
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If it weren't for that base, this would look like it was a still from a movie.
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Trying something different tonight. I have a terminator chaplain and the chaplain from the Reclusian Command Squad boxset. My space marines are Salamanders, so these chaplains are going to have some degree of green on them. Since black is a difficult color to paint effectively on models, I'm going to try something I've learned as an oil painter. In oil and acrylic painting, black is also a very strong color and using a pure black is generally not recommended. A more natural black is a little warm or cold, so you would add a red, blue, or violet to it to make it a little more natural. That or mix a few colors together to make a natural black. So I've put on a kelly green base for both models and am applying a liberal amount of black wash over the green. I suppose that I could have used a pure black and just painted a green highlight on the corners and edges of the armor, but let's see where this goes. EDIT: Oh god what the hell was I thinking? Star Man fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Cyclomatic posted:Painting black, or even greys, tends to straight kick my rear end. I really wish I could figure out the trick of it. Well, I conceded and just painted over what I had with black and am going to go over the corners with Warpstone Glow. If I paint another Salamanders chaplain, I'm going to mix a little red with the black to make it warm and see what I get.
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Iron Crowned posted:The fact that you are using GW products is torment enough Hey, I'm trying to use them up before I completely convert to Vallejo.
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True dat. I like their hobby box and washes. I like the darker color that Gehenna's Gold is over the bright Vallejo golds, but that might just be a matter of finding the right combination of washes to use Vallejo gold with to match that hue. But I think the only reason that I have the plastic CItadel cup was because I was lazy and didn't want to save a spaghetti sauce jar.
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Vulkan He'stan with banner. This is the unspiration thread, right?
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BULBASAUR posted:I dunno, I find it really easy. Grab a pot, put some on a plastic CD case or something, then paint away. You don't even need to worry about it drying up because alcohol will bring alive even dried alachol paint. About the only thing I do any different (outside of the synethic brushes, which you definitely do need) is add alachol to the palette every five minutes or so. How fast do you think alcohol paints would dry out in bone dry Colorado or Wyoming?
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BULBASAUR posted:Probably five minutes or so. Sounds fast, but it isn't that bad. Okay. It's a kind of paint that I've never used before and I've wondered about trying it out by getting a kelly green and painting a squad of Salamanders with it. Do alcohol paints separate from each other like acrylic and oil paints do after a while?
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Hauki posted:and here I thought Denver was pretty humid compared to where I grew up I never seem to notice the humidity, but that might be because I'm used to it. But I'm from Wyoming, so you'd think that I would notice it pretty easily.
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I finished my terminators and chaplains last night. Enjoy some crappy cell phone pictures because my digital camera bit the dust.   And a bonus image of my cramped little drawing table: 
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Y'all might learn a thing or two about painting in this stream: http://www.twitch.tv/bobross edit: I'm actually serious about this. Might learn a thing about mixing colors if that's something anyone in this thread struggles with. Star Man fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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realtalk: I am a thick-on-thin painter and paint my space marines that way. It's how I learned to do oil painting and I can't seem to get over it for miniatures. I don't thin my paints with water once I've given them their primer and a thin layer of color.
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Floppychop posted:Anyone have good suggestions for a premade wash for pale skin? Have you tried using a red wash?
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Finished my Sternguard Veterans today and got around to basing my techmarine and venerable dreadnought. Except for the veteran holding the heavy flamer, the rest have magnets in their wrists so I can swap combi weapons.   
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