Scherdy's Happy Place - WIP/paintlog
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BloodASmedium
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Sherds first off I had no idea me and Janet (my main squeeze) had fallen in love with a model that was ultimately yours. We both had picked capt sabo as our favorite bust and one of our favorite models at the crystal brush this year. This was beautiful and congratulations on a finalist spot. Great great job.
Scherdy
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A new GW store about an hour away opened up and had a painting competition for fun. I wanted to meet some of the locals and painted up this guy. They gave us just under 6 hours to take a model from sprue to complete. I even managed to build him a little base. I'm still amazed how good even the most basic models are now compared to the single pose orcs/gretchen that I used to try to finish back in the day.
Also I got a little inspiration and last minute coaching on how to paint a well weathered death guard model from Mr. BaM
Also I got a little inspiration and last minute coaching on how to paint a well weathered death guard model from Mr. BaM
Coyotebreaks
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not checked into this thread for a while as been in another phase of not painting, but yes really cool painting going on in here the death guard looks great. quick question on the green space marine, from a bit ago, what was it that made the amrou change from the very situated lime green to the more muted tones you finished with.
I find all my greens are too saturated and would like to know ways to get them more sensible
I find all my greens are too saturated and would like to know ways to get them more sensible
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BloodASmedium
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Great job Scherdy -always glad to help bud!!!
Scherdy
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I shaded parts of it (from pics I think if you're looking at what would be his right hand side) using vallejo model air armor brown glazes which really muted the green and made a nice shadow. On the other side (his left hand side) I used vallejo model color dark sea blue glazes. It started out with me just wanting to play around with different shadow colors to see how they compared on the model. No other real reason as to why. I was sort of in the same boat as you and wanted to play around and learn different effects I could achieve playing with saturation and colors of my lime green marine. So I pretended maybe he was in an environment where from different facings he was experiencing different colorations of light that would affect the shadows. I'd say just go buck wild and try something similarly fun!
I'm no expert but when I want something to become less saturated I usually try to add a more muted shadow color to the base color or add the complementary (in this case the reddish armor brown) to the green desaturates it. White and black also desaturate but change the brightness of the color as well but if you're shading then you'd want darker and could add a little bit of dark grey or black to desaturate and darken for shadows.
Hopefully those with a better understanding can chime in and correct me where I'm wrong and give further advice.
I'm no expert but when I want something to become less saturated I usually try to add a more muted shadow color to the base color or add the complementary (in this case the reddish armor brown) to the green desaturates it. White and black also desaturate but change the brightness of the color as well but if you're shading then you'd want darker and could add a little bit of dark grey or black to desaturate and darken for shadows.
Hopefully those with a better understanding can chime in and correct me where I'm wrong and give further advice.
Coyotebreaks
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cool thanks for answering, interesting reply
