The power of purple

Transcript

What’s up? I’m back. I’m still alive. I missed a couple of days of uploads. Uh I have I’ve got the hobby streak alive.

So, the hobby streak is still going, but the video streak obviously ended. And I’m pretty sad about that. But, uh everybody, all four kids, my wife, and then myself got neuroirus, and I’ll spare you the details, but the last 48 hours, 60 hours have been the most challenging I’ve ever had as a parent. Uh, we literally could not keep keep the laundry, like the blankets and the towels. We had to go buy more stuff and the toilet paper.

Uh, it was miserable. Everybody’s good now. I think I’m the only one that’s still a little bit sick. But it just I could not have like said, “All right, guys. I know y’all are super sick, but I got to go downstairs to make a video real quick.”

So, uh, so the video streak ended, but you know, I think there was a I kept the video streak going, and the video the daily vlogs are coming back. Like, I’m not I don’t plan on stopping it. Uh, but I was keeping it going because I was I was afraid that if I stopped, I wouldn’t start again. And here we go. We’re starting again.

I got all these guys built. I need to make another base for him. But I converted converted this guy. I cut the shield off and now he’s dual wielding. Uh, which I think this looks sick.

And then this guy, I’m going to make like a staff like he’s a like he wants to be a little wizard. Got all these all the mold lines are finally off. Uh, everything here. and washed and ready for priming finally. I started to get the Grim Kim primed and then I ran out of time.

Uh so I got to get Bellwok and guy primed for the Bellwoken painting competition uh objectives primed. This my first Tanner Simpson miniature. Going to get him primed tonight and I’m going to use him for Teaspoon. Got his base built. I want I used a big base cuz I almost want the base to be kind of diarama-ish.

Okay, let’s get some actual painting done. Starting off with P3 bad bruise. Going to spray this up from the bottom and it’s pretty wet here. So, I actually have to go back in and add a little bit more paint to it. Do not want to airbrush with with paint that thin.

It’s going to look terrible at the end of it. So, got it thickened up, hitting all the shadows, all the spots up from the bottom. I want this in all the lowest spots. Here we go. Now, it’s it’s fully fixed.

Now, we’re going to shift over. Uh, and I’m going to do the clog trace, too. Um, the trick to a good gold is being purple. Like, once you build it up on purple, the purple makes the gold like stick in the shadows. I’ll do a purple wash at the end of it.

Um, very simple gold recipe, especially with an airbrush. That makes it look really good. I’m going to paint two more of these. I’ll probably use the airbrush on them, too. Coming over royal violet, hitting the midtones.

I want to cover up all the white with this because if you look at a Krabbit, at first you’re like, “Oh, that’s a white rabbit.” But the more you look at the official art for it, you realize that it’s almost like totally pink. So that’s what I want to go for. I want the purple and the deepest. Get some when the white goes over the purple, it’ll just naturally make some gray shadows.

And that’s [snorts] what I’m I’m doing here. I’m just getting my purple base and the midtone established. And I’m not going to wash the pot out. I’m just going to put in some white here. Um I added some of the Sonores primer I had.

Uh don’t don’t buy the Sonores white primer. Don’t do it. Uh, I just have it. So, by not washing the pot out, and I didn’t stir this up either. I just put the white in on top of it, it’s gonna just naturally mix somewhat, especially because I’m I’m dealing with a lot of humidity issues down here tonight.

But the more I use it, the more it’s going to just naturally transition to whiter paint coming out. And that’s going to help me even further control and get even more of a transition from those very dark dark purples in the shadows to like a pure white in a very few select spots. So, I’m just very carefully working this up. Uh, and in the cuts, I’m even like spraying it off the model onto a piece of paper. So, like right here, I’m spraying it off onto a paper towel uh just to kind of to speed up the process of getting to that final pure white highlight.

And I am doing this like you can see it’s a very slow process. I’m keeping it all in. So you can see just how much time I’m taking to work this up to the true white. Because if you just blast this on, it’s either it’s one, it’s probably going to water watermark and and stretch out and look bad. But if you just blast the white on top of the purple, you’re going to have a very harsh line and it’s not going to achieve the effect we want.

like we want this to look more purplish the longer they look at it. And this is what this is how you achieve that effect because at a quick glance it’s white but again you’re going to see all the purple the more you look at it and especially from different angles on the table. Uh if you when you get underneath it you’ll see all of the purples. Looking at it headon from across the table you’re going to see a lot more of the purples versus top down. So very happy with how this guy turned out.

Uh, and now just a couple final highlights of the white and then we’ll move on over to the clock of trace. Here we go. Clean the pot out. Starting off with copper. Going to spray this from the bottom up.

Uh, pretty much over all the purple. We don’t want any actual purple left by the time we’re done with this. And this is the secret. You start with you start with copper and then you work your way up. Um, on top of the copper I’ll actually I’ll do a silver and and I’ll put that in.

And then on top of the silver, I’ll do the final gold. And then I’m not going to I’m going to let all this dry. That’s the one thing about airbrushing. Like it’s hard to do a full paint job in one night. And I’m really getting very sick of airbrushing.

Um been airbrushing for over a decade now. It’s really cool for army stuff. And I think maybe it speeds up like stuff like onesie twoosies like this, but then you have to clean it and you go through all this stuff cleaning it and then it it clogs. And I don’t know. I’m just I’m I’m becoming an airbrush hater.

Um things like the Krabbit where you can really do those blends that like you I could do that with the paintbrush, but it’s going to take forever and it’s probably not even going to be as smooth even if I spend hours and hours on it. Stuff like that. It’s hard to to say like totally forget the airbrush, you know? But I don’t know. I’m getting really sick of it and I I’m going to start changing my workflow to where it doesn’t use the airbrush as much.

Go back to brush work. Uh like I did with the Infinity. Honestly, doing the Infinity stuff, I had a lot more fun painting it because I didn’t use the airbrush. Like, I only used the airbrush on the green guy and on Maximus. I didn’t use the airbrush on anybody else uh when I painted that and it was a lot more enjoyable for me.

But anyway, here’s that silver Here’s that silver highlight. Here’s the gold over top. I’m going to take the gold over top of everything on accident. I I I wiped out a lot of that copper by mistake. Uh so, I’m going to go back in after I finish this and put the copper back in.

And I I I don’t know if I did if I covered too much of the copper up or if it’s that this gold paint is just so old that the metal flakes aren’t aren’t shining like they used to. I put it on a vortex mixer. Still didn’t really help anything. But I don’t know. I think I might need to replace my true metals.

I think I think it’s finally time. So here here I am coming back in. I didn’t wash the gold out, so it’s still a little bit brighter than where it was originally. And I’m just hitting like the sides of these panels, the armpits, coming in, making sure I’m spraying from the bottom or only hitting the shadowed areas. And we’re going to still do another round of highlights to this gold.

But I wanted to add in a little bit more variation and a little bit more like volutric lighting into it so that it it does look like it has some shading and it’s not just totally blasted. Uh, but this is how you can get super I keep saying volutric, but this is how you get the volumetric gold because the shadows will be that purplish copper color and then the top is going to be that silver gold and when we highlight it, the final highlight will actually be a very bright silver, too. So, finishing this up, touching up all the shadows in the final stretch here. Um, this is about a a 2hour long painting session because I did a lot of priming. So, this will probably Oh, yeah.

As I’m editing this, it’s past midnight, so technically I miss another day, but I got a lot of painting done today. Back on the track. Here’s our final results for the day. I will see you tomorrow, uh, where I hopefully get these guys mostly finished up. I’ll definitely finish up the rabbit.

See you then. Bye.