unded
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Post by unded on Dec 18, 2017 10:43:54 GMT
So, Charles had inspired / taunted me into putting more effort into getting sketch style right. I thought I'd chronicle it here, and if anyone can help me out by pointing out errors that would be swell as well. The start is the Zenithal lighting coats, which you can see here: Oblique View Top-down View Lone Crow (Camera struggles to focus) I've used a three-stage Zenithal lighting coat, first coating everything in black, then a burst of grey primer from a roughly 60-degree angle, and finally a short burst of white from maybe an 80-85 degree angle. Now to try the actual sketching... -und_ed
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Post by unded on Dec 20, 2017 10:21:28 GMT
I was hoping for this to be a cool, inspiring journey. I'm sorry to report it's turned into more of a cautionary tale.
The TLDR is that I strongly recommend against this technique unless you have someone physically on-hand to guide you through it. I found I took longer to paint the minis and with notably poorer quality results. Specific issues I found (that would likely be much easier with someone on-hand to guide me):
- Understanding where and how to put each colour / blend (white / black) on the sketches. I ended up agonising over each brush stroke, not really knowing what was a good or bad decision. This took absolute ages. - appropriate consistency of the glazes. While I'm used to using very thin glazes, I found I was getting no effect from those thin glazes. Then trying to make them slightly stronger I'd end up too strong, losing a lot of the sketch effect
I'm calling this a failed experiment at this point. Three attempts down (2 x Neraphs, 2 x Gremlin swarms and now the murder crow unit) and I'm getting worse results over significantly longer painting times.
If you have a mate around who can guide you through it then this might be a viable technique to dive into, but articles / painting vids are just not good enough imo to learn this one solo.
-und_ed
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