Lightning effect first attempt ever

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**Shinoden**

So this was my first attempt ever at doing lightning effect. Please give me some feedback or suggestions that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

**Shinoden**

This is the other side

**Lovechunks**

i like it looks good

**Erik_Morkai**

I like it

Another trick I saw someone use was pieces of thin metal wire. He painted lightning colors on it like you did and wrapped the wire around the weapon which gave a 3D cackling effect.

Might be something to look at just for fun

**Bobaram**

Nice job! I'll have to try that myself!

**Hawky**

Fluor based luminous paint?

**chickenbane**

Nice.I'd like to know what paint it is too.

**Shinoden**

Hahaha, I appreciate the ideas and thank you for the praise. As for the paint used, no I didn't use any special paints. I intact used generic acrylic paints from michaels. The ones that cost 79cents lol. I used several shades of blue and basic white.

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1: I used a dark blue mixed with black to cover the whip.
2: I used dark blue and whipped most the paint off the brush and did made a poking/jabbing motion along the path I wanted the lightning to go.
3: mixed dark blue and Mediterranean blue, again followed the same technique as step 2, putting a little extra paint at the Y- junctions of the lightning.
4: Mediterranean blue, again following that poking and jabbing motion.
5: Mediterranean blue mixed with white and made the first pass of lightning around the whip.
6: pure white following the same path made in step 5. Does not need to be perfect as lightning is never perfectly straight.

Hope that helps.
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