Paint and Ramble Night

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I put about two and a half hours into the Infinity model today on the purples and blacks. Cutting in the black took forever because of how tedious this model is—being right up against the white makes it pretty scary. I’ve started doing some blending on the purple using Scale Color, working up from purple black into pure purple. Still a long way to go on highlighting.

Why No Video of the Infinity Model

That guy’s just too hard—I’m not good enough and I don’t have a good enough angle to get both the camera and myself positioned to paint him. The video for that model is basically: if you have brush control, you can do it. If you don’t, you’re kind of screwed. No hacks here.

When you’re painting something like that, you go in knowing you’ll get paint where you don’t want it. You just try not to let it happen too much, don’t let it discourage you, and come back to correct it. That model is not forgiving at all. But it’s going to be very satisfying when it’s done—it’ll be the new benchmark of where my skill is. I’ve got nine more Infinity models to paint, but he’s for sure the most difficult.

Base Coating the Second Model

While I’ve got this purple out, I’m base coating another model because I think I’ve got a pretty cool idea for the skin. Using Scale Color dark violet on the real wet palette—the Altoids tin setup. My goal is to work this skin up to a very pale green and pink. Like a tinted white with green and pink, because I think that’ll look great with the bronze we’ve already done.

I’m keeping a lot of the shadows and crevices in purple—you’ll still see the dark purple in spots. I’m also trying to move away from always relying on a zenithal highlight. We’re going to control this with high contrast and volumetric lighting.

Painting Philosophy

This is an important lesson about how different paint looks wet versus dry. The belly we already went over looks much darker than the arm we just painted. We’re definitely going Nurgle-inspired, but I don’t want it to be just “grimdark purple and green with oil wash.” If I use oil washes, it’ll be a purple or violet oil wash, and I might use oils to highlight.

Scale Color paints are so thick and full-bodied that you can put two dots next to each other and blend them together the same way you would oil paints. I think I might do that on him instead.

There’s only so much you can ramble about while base coating. I’ve already painted for about three hours today between this and the Infinity model, plus I started doing more shadow work on the white panels. A ton of painting done, but a terrible video about it. Tomorrow should be a lot more fun.