Friday, December 30, 2011

My New Way of Painting Red

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I asked black matt what colors he thought would be best for making red pop. The colors we came up with were red gore, blood red,and blazing orange. It turns out i didnt really need the red gore because the base color was mechrite red with a heavy badab black wash, which was essentialy the same. I also picked up some baal red wash hoping to help blend in all the various reds. This is how i did it. After the mechrite red with the baal red wash,(or just use red gore) i painted all the areas where i thought light would hit with a watered down blood red. Then i did the edges where the blood red was with blazing orange. After that i used the baal red wash to make the colors look more "together" and after it dried i did finer higlights of blood red and the blazing orange, repeating the first two steps basically.
Using all these different reds really adds depth to the model.


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5 comments:

  1. Michael HoganDecember 30, 2011 at 5:36 PM

    Wow, that really does add one extra dimension of... popping. Looks like less like line highlights and more like blending (looking at the kneepads and arms are some good spots where you can notice a difference). Great job.

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  2. lil willDecember 31, 2011 at 11:48 AM

    Thanks, for some reason the lighting is making it look more orange than red. Is there a way to fix that?

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  3. Michael HoganDecember 31, 2011 at 4:57 PM

    Photo and photo editting have never been my thing, sorry. Though I do know with certain programs like GIMP, if you go to Color Levels (I believe) you can select two points, one to be pure white and another to be pure black and it will attempt to balance the colors to a more realistic point. If I can find a quick guide, I'll link it.

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  4. Michael HoganJanuary 1, 2012 at 4:43 AM

    I did a real quick test image where I went into GIMP and selected the white paper next to the mini to be pure white and the darkest part I could find (on the neck of the head) as pure black. It came out like this.
    http://i.imgur.com/LvvXD.jpg
    Not sure how that compares to how it looks in real life or if it looks more red than orange, but just a quick example.

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  5. lil willJanuary 1, 2012 at 10:57 AM

    Ok cool so i need one point to be pure white (background) and another to be pure black and it should balance out the colors. Thanks for the test image!

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