Painting A Checkered Pattern
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Cerridwyn1st
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From Arkaal
First, there is a wonderful article on this in the March `04 White Dwarf.
This is from Arkaal. I sent him some work in progress pix of a mini I\'m working on with a checked pattern.
I saw you pictures, good job. The emblazoned are beautiful. You know, with a job like that, the most easier is to paint all the horse\'s barding in red. After you paint the blue. First you make just the line as right as you can, after you paint the blue inside your lines. (I hope you understand, my english is ...) It make a better paint then if you paint a red square, a blue square, a red square....
I emailed back about painting white on top of the red and then the blue. He sent back:
Do not put white between the red and blue. Blue has, normally, a better covering capacity than the red. It is necessary to put some layers of blue diluted with water. But the result will be good... the red and the blue like you want. Afterwards, you can degrade the two colors.
I hope this helps.
First, there is a wonderful article on this in the March `04 White Dwarf.
This is from Arkaal. I sent him some work in progress pix of a mini I\'m working on with a checked pattern.
I saw you pictures, good job. The emblazoned are beautiful. You know, with a job like that, the most easier is to paint all the horse\'s barding in red. After you paint the blue. First you make just the line as right as you can, after you paint the blue inside your lines. (I hope you understand, my english is ...) It make a better paint then if you paint a red square, a blue square, a red square....
I emailed back about painting white on top of the red and then the blue. He sent back:
Do not put white between the red and blue. Blue has, normally, a better covering capacity than the red. It is necessary to put some layers of blue diluted with water. But the result will be good... the red and the blue like you want. Afterwards, you can degrade the two colors.
I hope this helps.
what colors are you doing?
It may make a difference.
Here\'s how I have done white and black checks in the past:
First time I tried it I made the checks way to freaking small. It took me 2 hours to cover and inch and at a distance it is hardly noticeable. Some day I\'ll post it.
The second time I decided to make bigger squares, at least 2mm square. I started by painting the whole surface an off-white. I used GW\'s Ghostly Grey. Then I highlighted all of the raised areas to white, as though I was not going to paint over it. Then I went through and painted in the black squares. From there I very carefully highlighted the raised areas, trying to keep the same highlight pattern I had with the white.
This turned out pretty decent, but every time I slipped I ruined a white square.
Time number 3 I started out with black. Then I highlighted all the raised areas, again as though I was not going to checker the area. Then I tried an experiement. I added a good deal of white to the black and got a nice gry. So I went through and checked off the area with that grey. Then I slowly highlighted the raised areas to a lighter grey. It ended up being black and light grey checks, not black and white. But I liked it so much I stuck with it. I will post this one, as soon as my camera is fixed.
barkel
It may make a difference.
Here\'s how I have done white and black checks in the past:
First time I tried it I made the checks way to freaking small. It took me 2 hours to cover and inch and at a distance it is hardly noticeable. Some day I\'ll post it.
The second time I decided to make bigger squares, at least 2mm square. I started by painting the whole surface an off-white. I used GW\'s Ghostly Grey. Then I highlighted all of the raised areas to white, as though I was not going to paint over it. Then I went through and painted in the black squares. From there I very carefully highlighted the raised areas, trying to keep the same highlight pattern I had with the white.
This turned out pretty decent, but every time I slipped I ruined a white square.
Time number 3 I started out with black. Then I highlighted all the raised areas, again as though I was not going to checker the area. Then I tried an experiement. I added a good deal of white to the black and got a nice gry. So I went through and checked off the area with that grey. Then I slowly highlighted the raised areas to a lighter grey. It ended up being black and light grey checks, not black and white. But I liked it so much I stuck with it. I will post this one, as soon as my camera is fixed.
barkel
concerned with accuracy?
If you are just concerned with how you will paint the squares then you could try this.
Paint the white part (or the lighter color) first and do all of the appropriate highlighting. Then, with a fine pencil and a steady hand, draw in the checker lines. Finally, go through and fill in the squares with paint.
barkel
ps. I did this with my goblin banner. But that is hardly fair as it was a flat surface. Painting on a curve will be the trick.
If you are just concerned with how you will paint the squares then you could try this.
Paint the white part (or the lighter color) first and do all of the appropriate highlighting. Then, with a fine pencil and a steady hand, draw in the checker lines. Finally, go through and fill in the squares with paint.
barkel
ps. I did this with my goblin banner. But that is hardly fair as it was a flat surface. Painting on a curve will be the trick.
Chrispy
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You\'re right, I just posted on the forum.. can\'t remember where I stated it either.. I\'ll definatly put that in my Freehand article.. (Most future articles sheduled for summer break, but during the next week I may do one). But basically, I like to start with a shaded white space where you\'re doing it. That means you\'ve done all the greys on it. Then just paint a black box on one of the corners. Paint another one above and to the side of that, and you\'ll eventually make white squares by boxing the color in. However, remember that you should only use pur black for te darker areas, and a very dark grey for medium ares and a medium grey for extremely light ares. This is a little weird, because the darkes white may be the lightest black, but in a check pattern, it doesn\'t appear like that.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
M
MaestroOfMayhem
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I can do them very well if I do say so myself, large or small. 1st paint your base colour, make sure it contrasts with your check unless your looking for a different effect. With a small brush paint lines going across and up and down to make small boxes, fill in every second box with a different colour you choose then patch up any mistakes, to add shading take a bit of a darker colour and dab it in 1 corner, then highlight in the other colour. For larger checks you can highlight and shade nicer but for small ones there is almost no need.
simple and direct...
...my way of doing it too....except...
i shade with black and highlight with white first...cos these colours are normally very much affected by the base colours.
a black base for shading creates a duller checkbox shading....and...
a whiet base colour for highlighting gives me a more vibrant checkbox highlight.
then i use thinned colour of the box to \"erase\" the edge of the shading and highlighting...
PS: Jenova has a great article on painting tartans...almost like painting checkered pattern (but more complex)
...my way of doing it too....except...
i shade with black and highlight with white first...cos these colours are normally very much affected by the base colours.
a black base for shading creates a duller checkbox shading....and...
a whiet base colour for highlighting gives me a more vibrant checkbox highlight.
then i use thinned colour of the box to \"erase\" the edge of the shading and highlighting...
PS: Jenova has a great article on painting tartans...almost like painting checkered pattern (but more complex)
Cerridwyn1st
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Underpainting?
So Mouse, you shade and highlight, then paint the checks on top of that? Isn\'t that called underpainting?
MaserM, your method sounds a lot like what Arkaal suggested.
So Mouse, you shade and highlight, then paint the checks on top of that? Isn\'t that called underpainting?
MaserM, your method sounds a lot like what Arkaal suggested.
