Priming question's

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**skchsan**

Stormatious wrote:
queen_annes_revenge wrote:
the white dry brush I assume is a sort of preshade, which the corpse pale goes over the top of in a thin layer. the contrast between the light and dark underneath will help shade the model.

You can absolutely use a minimum amount of paints for good results.

5 is the minimum really.. red, blue, yellow, black and white. when I paint WW2 bomber jackets these are the only colors I use. you can make every co lour you need from those, and its good to improve your skills using minimum colours.

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although as an addition I wouldn't add white to your red to make highlights as, as I'm sure your aware, red + white = pink.

So what you want to do is mix a flesh tone. red+yellow+white (2,2,1) then use this to mix into your reds for highlight tones.

Oh yeah that makes sense. Couldn't he also just prime black, then do a white prime with out hitting the recess's where the black and get the same effect hes trying to get?

Any way thanks so much queen and every one. I cant wait to get started, not sure when that is because i still need to buy some things, but wont be far off.

Edit - OFF TOPIC QUESTION - Just quickly, when using last stage highlight, should you only do the highest edges where you are imagining the light is coming from, or should you do all the highest edges in all areas like for e.g the back of a model and the front.

Thanks

1. Yes, a white primer at a neutral angle will do the same job as the white dry brushing aforementioned.
2. The final highlight as posted above, is all up to you. Your first case will be an example of single source lighitng like a spot light. Your second case would better depict omni-source lighting as it it was lit from a sun.

**queen_annes_revenge**

Yeah you could do that, but for a small area like a face, if you're wanting a precise pre higlight using a white drybrush is the easier technique rather than spraying white which is more likely to just cover the whole thing.

**StormX**

Yeah.

Thank you.