@tinting with glazes

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rokkin

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Hello!



so I have a question about using a glaze as a tint to enhance the colours beneath.
Let's say I want to paint a green skin colour on an ork, would it be possible to make the skin colour
more interesting with a glaze of another colour ontop, if so, which coloured glaze could be used for the task?

well the green is just a rough example, another example could be a blue ultramarine armour or a blood angels marine.


I'm asking because of once I finally get a somewhat decent paintjob I am afraid that testing it out will ruin the last couple of hours worked on the layering process..
 
Wyrmypops

Wyrmypops

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It most assuredly can. I'd bang on about them but the kindle' s autocorrect will make me look daft. Bound to be some quality tips in the sticky thread and/or the articles section. Would save that chance of knackering a mini.
 
Wyrmypops

Wyrmypops

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"juicing" is a term applied to glazing too. That might turn up in titles.

It's mostly just thinning an ink wash so its opacity is really knocked low. Applied not as a wash, but with more brush control so you're only putting enough glaze down to do the immediate job - helps to then dilute it further with a brush lick or alternative means and wiggle at the edges of the application to help it blend in. Can always do further glazes if necessary, but if it ain't thinned enough and goes on strong that can spell disaster. It's something you get a feel for, and can always stroke the brush against your finger before the mini to judge.

If spare models aren't available to practise it on, you've probably got enough spare bases cos those buggers just build up.

Have found any painting techniques it can be good to just get stuck in. Then you've personal experience, a context so guides can make more sense "oh, so that's what they mean."

Glazing is a particular joy with certain colours. Highlights can make certain of them too pastel or washed out, of your Ork, Ultras, and Blood Angels the Ultras can suffer from that. Purple can be a proper pain. It's all that highlighting with white, we can misjudge the medium stages.
Even with other colours they can help bring the stages of highlight together, blurring the edges of one highlight stage to the next.

Lovely subtle stuff. :)
 
BloodFather of Kharnath

BloodFather of Kharnath

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You need to think of glazing as almost two seperate things. One is to tint the surface of a mini, generally glazing one color on top of a different color. This serves several purposes, one of which might be to add some
subtle color to an NMM surface. While the mini's armor may be a gray steel overall, you can add a brown glaze for instance to make it look older or maybe a bit rusted. It gives the steel character and form. A popular glaze is
blue on a sword.

The second use of glazing is actually using glazing to blend. This is what juicing refers to. Slowly building up your layers with paint that is
filuted to the consistency of a glaze. Perhaps the easiest way for a beginner to learn to blend, but very time
consuming. Produces a very smooth layer and is often used in conjunction with feathering to control the pigment.

I thought it important to make the distinction between the two.
 
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