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This is a model I'm working in for Dark Water. The cloak is two layers of Zandri Dust with Fire Giant Orange Speed Paint. The rest are Speedpaint + Contrast.


I'm.... I'm not too confident in this. I also only know how to paint human skin normally.

Any advice is appreciated.

It's difficult to tell from the image but I'd say the model would benefit from a wash to establish some shadows

Good progress.

The only advice I have is to try (selective washes) to darken the lines or/and areas that separate one material from the other.

I used to use 2 brushes
One with water to wet the surface
Other with dark and diluted paint or speed-paint to carefully dap into a recess to etch the contrast where it is needed.

Now instead of a brush I have 50Water/50IsopropylAlcohol in a little mist bottle.

Hope this makes sense, and helps. Cheers.

 Mothsniper wrote:

Spoiler:

Good progress.

The only advice I have is to try (selective washes) to darken the lines or/and areas that separate one material from the other.

I used to use 2 brushes
One with water to wet the surface
Other with dark and diluted paint or speed-paint to carefully dap into a recess to etch the contrast where it is needed.

Now instead of a brush I have 50Water/50IsopropylAlcohol in a little mist bottle.

Hope this makes sense, and helps. Cheers.

I'm sorry, and this is not a joke, but what are selective washes?

(this is from someone who only followed painting videos from the Warhammer YT channel and the Citadel app)

 parakuribo wrote:

 Mothsniper wrote:

Spoiler:

Good progress.

The only advice I have is to try (selective washes) to darken the lines or/and areas that separate one material from the other.

I used to use 2 brushes
One with water to wet the surface
Other with dark and diluted paint or speed-paint to carefully dap into a recess to etch the contrast where it is needed.

Now instead of a brush I have 50Water/50IsopropylAlcohol in a little mist bottle.

Hope this makes sense, and helps. Cheers.

I'm sorry, and this is not a joke, but what are selective washes?

(this is from someone who only followed painting videos from the Warhammer YT channel and the Citadel app)

Warhammer YT tutorials are great!
In short:
Pre-apply water before a pin-wash

In long:
Selective wash It is not a term, I am trying to describe an action.
I guess is something between a (Pin Wash) and a (Wash)
When you need to darken or color tint the recesses without changing the surface color.

For example, I needed:
1 skin to be as pale as possible
2 but have darker recesses
3 and smooth transition from light to dark
4 and without painting it! all done with a wash.
5 and avoiding touching things up

The wash will do the heavy lifting for me, but If I wash dark-red over the face, the wash will also tint and darken the light areas and I will have to go back and touch those up.
So I pre-wet the face with (water), or (dishsoap/water) or (iso/water) to break surface-tension, and then apply a pin-wash into a recess. The wash flows but leaves the light areas, so I do not have to touch those up later.
Sometimes the surface is too matt (depends what primed was used), and the pin wash does not stay in the recess but creeps into the lighter areas, in that case I have to go back and touch things up.



Another example: I have light detail on light background, so pre-applied (iso/water) to pin-wash around the details, maybe 5 times or so trying different thinned paints until I was happy with the "outline" created for the detail.



So, try to pre-wet the surface and do some pin washes, it mihgt be helpful. Cheers!