Hobby Hang Out Clips

Purple Glazing Progress

We’ve done a ton of work on the purples over the past few sessions. It’s starting to really come through now—you can see it building up through the panels. If you want to paint this guy, I put a link on my site with all the reference photos. The YouTube tutorial by Phelan’s Painting is who I’m following.

White Highlighting

Switching to highlight the white panels. Just bringing everything up a little bit, blending it in. There’s already a ton of work on the white from establishing the shadow perspective. This will probably be the final highlight for most of it—some areas are actually going to be silver, which I didn’t realize.

Where the shadow felt too harsh, I’m glazing up out of the shadow to the highlight. Then stepping up a notch with the white-purple mix on the edges. This is that scary part where everything goes up a notch too far, then we take it back down with midtones.

The Process

My plan: do this step up, glaze back over, one more step of highlights, one final glaze, then come in with a true highlight. A lot of the subtle work from previous sessions doesn’t come through on camera, but since this was such a big step up, you can definitely tell we’re putting paint on the model now.

That’s what two hours of painting gets you. This is what showing up every day to put paint on the brush looks like. Go do it.