Next color to highlight - ?

[Scherdy]

Here is the sword which is my first real shot at trying to do blending by using really thin layers of paint (sorry, I know there\'s a word for it but I\'m not familiar with the terminology yet). But I am having a lot of fun trying this out! With very minor cursing at at times.

I want to kick up the highlights quite a bit on the sword and picking the next color is just a guess for me so I was hoping for some advice.

Do I go with adding white? yellow? Some bleached bone? spacewolf grey?

I\'m not sure if I should go darker on the shadowed parts (that would make the highlights seem brighter by contrast right?). Maybe that\'s the way to go instead. A little of column A and column B possibly?

Here\'s what I have so far:

As far as the placement of where I\'m putting the paint, I\'m not sure it looks right but I\'m hoping when I do the thin edges that separate the faces of the blade that will help define it maybe.

 

[Necroghast]

Add some white! Go to pure white if you want it to look real shiny! Shiny!

 

[freakinacage]

what sort of effect are you looking for?

adding white would make it look pink

 

[Scherdy]

I was using this as a reference. What?? It\'s BLUE!

Well, I was thinking of more of a red version
http://www.coolminiornot.com/187544

But whatever a psychic-ly charged witchblade of ninjery space elf bad-assitude would look like. Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn\'t give me a definition for that.

 

[Necroghast]

Oh. I ment add white to the orange.

 

[exilesjjb]

blends are looking very smooth, you could add a little bleached bone or bronzed flesh to the mix for the next level of highlight and then pure whit for hot spots.

 

[ScottRadom]

Maybe add a little space wolf grey? Darklord sugessts it for a lot over on WAMP and he sold me on it!

 

[Amazon warrior]

I\'d go for adding yellow and then switching to white for the brightest highlights. I did this on a green nmm blade and it came out very well.

Don\'tcha just love CMON? Ask ten different people and get ten different answers! lol:innocent:

 

[nels0nmac]

The colour you wnat depends on the final look you want. Adding yellow will make it look hot.. like its burning, Space wolf grey could give the impression that it\'s reflecting some of the colour of the sky. If you just want to make the reds a bit lighter then highlight using Dwarf flesh...it has a warmth that you dont get if you just add white.

Oh and I believe the term for using very thin layers of paint to blend is called \"juicing\"

 

[Ritual]

Originally posted by nels0nmac
Oh and I believe the term for using very thin layers of paint to blend is called \"juicing\"

That\'s a rather new, and pointless, term for what is generally known (outside our hobby as well) as glazing.

 

[green stuff]

Message original : Ritual

Originally posted by nels0nmac
Oh and I believe the term for using very thin layers of paint to blend is called \"juicing\"

That\'s a rather new, and pointless, term for what is generally known (outside our hobby as well) as glazing.

Plus, the term \"juice\" is used to describe the dilution of the paint you\'re using, not what you\'re going to do with it. It could also be used as a wash for example.

 

[Trevor]

I\'m pretty sure juice came about when some european painters were trying to describe what they were doing in english. I actually thought it was different to washes and glazes.

Wash - diluted, but still pigment rich, covers whole area
Glaze - very very dilute, covers whole area
Juice - variable diluteness, but only covers a part of the area (either the highlights or the shadows).

 

[nels0nmac]

Ah glad to know that I\'m not the only one to have used that term... I was beginning to think that my mind had spontaneously created it from thin air
My impression of the meaning of the term is as Trevor described it. Is there another, more widely accepted term for that technique?

 

[Scherdy]

Wow, thanks for the ideas. I really like the that people have so many different ways to achieve a particular effect.

Thanks for the clarification on what this is too. I guess since I\'m placing a very dilute in selective areas it\'d be glazing (or juicing). Always nice to have a common vocabulary to describe stuff.

I\'ll be putting the paint on this weekend and hopefully I can do your good ideas justice on the model without screwing it up!

 

[Ritual]

AFAIK washes and glazes are done with pretty much the same type of thin paint (variations according to personal preference, of course). The difference is washes are applied abundantly, so that the paint runs into the recesses, whereas glazes are spread thinly across a surface like a thin film, or a filter. You can glaze a whole surface or a tiny part of it. Don\'t need a separate term for doing one or the other thing.

 

[Scherdy]

Originally posted by ScottRadom
Maybe add a little space wolf grey? Darklord sugessts it for a lot over on WAMP and he sold me on it!

Well, I went with this since I had no idea how it might turn out and it was something I\'d never think of trying.

I wasn\'t sure if straight sw grey was meant or mix it in with the red/orange so I didn\'t cut it at all. Here\'s how it turned out. I think I like it. It was great to learn and give this method and color choice a try and I really appreciate all the help people gave. You guys rock!

 

[nels0nmac]

That works... def. gets the thumbs up from me.