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I like how the grey vs red areas turned out, but I think I'm going to change some things. Next time the hair will be blue to match the wash on the skin. I might not make the highway base quite so light grey, more asphalt-y instead. I plan on painting some power-weapon green glow for the guns and some blood splatters on the more important models, not the grunt troopers. Personally I think the base looks purty kewl.

Did I overdo the highlights? I think it might be a bit too pink, but I wasn't sure how to get the raised armor edges to pop out otherwise. I think maybe a bit darker grey too. I also touched up the edges of the base on the bottom.


]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5487115.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5487115.page GMT Dark Eldar Test Scheme DE are base colour incubi darkness, and over prominent area's are mixed 75%ID to 25% Sotek Green, then I use Sotek green as the base highlight, and the n a 25% SG to 75% White as a very thin edge highlight.

Also about the hair, I don't really worry about colours there as my DE have different coloured hair!

One thing im not sure of is the green you mentioned for the weapon, and how that will look against red]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5487621.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5487621.page GMT Dark Eldar Test Scheme
Use orange hues to highlight red to keep it from going pink.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5488911.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5488911.page GMT Dark Eldar Test Scheme
My suggestion would be thinner edge highlights, or a smoother transition. Even adding a middle tone between your red and pink would help. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5488950.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5488950.page GMT Dark Eldar Test Scheme
The key to highlighting reds is subtlety. You want very slight contrast and less is usually more. Often just a simple base and wash or single slight highlight gets the job done without looking cartoonish.

ETA: The warmth of the red is determined by which way you go with this. Going the magenta/pink route makes for a cold red that looks bright. Orange/yellow makes for a warmer, deeper red.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5489128.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5489128.page GMT Dark Eldar Test Scheme http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5489164.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5489164.page GMT Dark Eldar Test Scheme
helotaxi wrote:
I've certainly never seen a pink apple, but they all have an orange cast to them. Look at the shade-base-highlight series of paints offered by several different companies and they all trend to orange as well for the reds. A pure white edge highlight looks right if done sparingly, but only if the white is opaque enough that it doesn't look pink.

The key to highlighting reds is subtlety. You want very slight contrast and less is usually more. Often just a simple base and wash or single slight highlight gets the job done without looking cartoonish.

ETA: The warmth of the red is determined by which way you go with this. Going the magenta/pink route makes for a cold red that looks bright. Orange/yellow makes for a warmer, deeper red.


I honestly don't know why I didn't just google it, myself. Usually I'm on that like a Google-fu master.

I guess it kind of depends on the type of apple you're looking at, though, and they all tend to go white a lot sooner than you'd expect.

Big images of apples in the spoiler.
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Corvettes, on the other hand, obviously go pink, with a little bit of blue from the sky.

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According to this, we're both right (you're probably more right)... For red, we add both orange and white to get the highlight color.

And this is an awesome link for color theory: http://ordinarygaming.blogspot.com/2012/06/color-theory-tutorials-why-didnt-i.html]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5489432.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5489432.page GMT Re:Dark Eldar Test Scheme DE I'm painting now I stuck with black armor with blue edge highlights.

When I've been doing my edge highlights, what I've been doing is laying them on as smooth as possible and trying to blend them so I have lighter highlights on the upper parts. My lines are thick and terrible though, so what I do is afterwards go back over them with black (my base color) to thin them down and make them sharper.

I'm at work now, but I can post a picture of the Venom I'm working on when I get home to give you an idea.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5490158.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5490158.page GMT Dark Eldar Test Scheme http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5490524.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/519743/5490524.page GMT