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I've decided to trey out some OSL on my necron immortals as I try to finish a squad of them. So far I've knocked up one with and one without OSL and was curious as to the opinions on them. This is pretty much the best OSL I can manage on my current skill level and was am not sure if they look better with or without the OSL.



Thanks for any help

you are really close to where you want to be

to a small amount of the bright green drybrush across the ribcage ti diffuse out the glow, and a very tiny amount of white at the very center of where you want the glow coming from and you are good to go!

Thanks for the advice, I've tried to do what you said and here's where I am atm.

100% more awesome! great job!

It looks alot better, I would say to feather it out more across the rib cage. A light dry brush will do this. Using the bright green. Other than that it looks good. Are you going to do the weapons also? Or are you only doing the rib cage and eyes?

The power cable on his back is done to glow across the back of his left leg already, which came out a little rougher looking than the torso, I think I will be doing a soft "dissipating" glow from the weapons as if it has just been fired as opposed to charging up to shoot. Enough to glow the gun but not reflect onto the user that much (mainly because I like the body as is). Will get a pic of the leg when I find batteries for my cameras flash which sadly died as I was taking test shots.

You're falling into a common trap with the OSL. OSL should not make something darker, which is what you're doing with the green on the ribs. Remember that light is additive. Go back with the base colour and glaze it back up, then use the lighter green to edge highlight just where the light is coming from.

winterdyne is right.
I've got a few posts on my own blog that talk about the ideas behind OSL that might help you out.
They're a short read and cover some of the essential things when it comes to getting the look "correct."
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/01/painting-glowing-powerfist.html

As well as what Winterdyne is suggesting, limiting the value and saturation overall might help also help. Notice that the model reads as if it were being lit with a stronger light source than the source lighting you're painting in, which would call for limiting that source lighting to areas where the stronger light isn't overpowering it. By reserving your strongest lights and saturation for the OSL you can get away with a less selective approach.

There is another good OSL tutorial here: http://handcannononline.com/blog/2011/08/05/tutorial-advanced-object-source-lighting/