How to Paint White Robes

Transcript

What’s up everybody? Today we’re working on this tattered little robe thing that we started on our live stream yesterday—our first ever live stream. Got all the kinks worked out. Excited to improve on that and keep going. Probably do something next Wednesday for sure, maybe Monday.

This is buff over top of that purple and red base coat, and then we’re working in some vanilla white. I’m realizing I need to come in with a little bit more of this buff. Now that this has been sitting out overnight, it’s a better consistency to work with for stuff like this. I’m going to leave the bottom of this mostly in shadow, but I just want that part that’s peeking through to have the khaki and be smooth.

The back’s in a pretty good place for right now. You’ve got to remember that these specific models—the other two with shields—they’re just there to die anyway. So this is definitely a case of we don’t want to spend a huge amount of time on it. I’m going to come in, hit the shadows, and I’ve already kind of done that. Now I’m just glazing over top of this—this is the pure white here on the ridges.

I’m currently very tired, very sleepy. It was a very long day. So you can probably hear it in my voice, but we are making progress. I think I can get this robe done. I really want to get this test model done. It’s going to be kind of crazy with Easter and everything, and my son’s birthday was last week but we’re celebrating the birthday party Saturday. So it’s going to be a crazy couple of days, but I can’t let that stop the progress.

Coming in over top of that red overspray, I’m keeping some of the purple in the shadows, but we just got to spend a little extra effort to get a smooth base coat on this. I’m excited—I’ve been printing around the clock. I’ve been printing Infernals like a madman. I’ll be able to finish up Infernals tomorrow and then it’s time to do Convergence, and after Convergence I’m just going to be printing Slaughterhouse and a couple others. I have a full Grim King collection but some of it’s broken, so I’ve got to print the parts that are broken so I can have that army fully ready to go.

This is going to be a pretty quick one, I think—just painting this white robe. Again, I’m pretty much doing thin layers of this buff over a purple, and then getting up in there. Definitely don’t want to mess that red up.

So there’s the buff, and then this white over here is vanilla white. It’s pretty juicy now. So there we go—that’s glaze consistency for sure. Now just glazing highlights. We’re definitely not going to be glazing this like 20 layers. I’m only going to glaze a few layers because I don’t want to spend 20 hours on infantry. Just very selectively on the raised edges.

Painting cloth and painting robes always kind of suck until they don’t. You just got to push through, and every robe is different too. It’s always 50/50 if painting a robe is going to look good for me. I think it’s just in my head—I’m sure it looks good.

What I’m doing is hitting all the raised areas and the parts that are definitely in shadow. Getting the extra moisture off so I don’t tear or coffee stain. It keeps our smoothness. I’m painting in the flow of the robe with my brush strokes because that’ll make it look intentionally textured. And I’m keeping that buff in the deepest shadows—it’s also kind of tinted with purple at this point.

Now what we can do—this is a super fast robe. I think I spent like maybe 5 minutes on it last night, and this is like real time. I just sat down to paint this now. This is that pure vanilla white from Scale 75 Artist. I’m going to hit the highest parts, then the bottom rung of these tears because that would catch light. Then this part that’s flicked out. Hit our tears. Definitely right there.

Now I’ve loaded my brush up with paint, and when I drag it down my thumb right here, I’m making sure paint goes up the side of the belly of the brush. Now I can come in and edge highlight this part of the robe right here with our pure bright white. Because I can’t help but edge highlight it. And then just a little bit of the pure white right there.

So let’s see. There we go—our robe is done. When I actually base this and put it on a red sand, like red desert sandish, what I’ll do is go back and weather it probably with pigments. But boom—our red armor airbrush work is done. I think I’ll probably brush highlight it, but it’s going to look really good with our robe. You can actually see the highlights and the texture that we put in it.

There we go. Ice, if you’re watching, the robe’s done. Done. Let me know if you like it, dude. A quick one for tonight because I’m sleepy as hell. See you tomorrow.