Orctober vlog day 2: NMM

Transcript

Okay, a quick one here for day two. We’re going to finish up the non-metallic on this armor. We’re going to go uh we’re going to do violet gray first, then pearl gray, and then art white. So, three color I guess not really three color anymore cuz we put a put a lot of work on our metals already, actually. But, by doing this a little bit of edge highlighting, essentially, is really all we’re doing.

Uh it’s going to really sell the the illusion and the look of our of of this being metal, right? And not just browns browns and blacks. So, this brush is pretty busted, but I’m going to try to make it work cuz I don’t want to have to go get another one. Uh There we go. Let’s see.

Just working it into the bristles. And so, the goal here and let me There we go. So, the goal here is to just kind of catch these edges. And almost like stippling, really. And this this brush finally might be just a little too beat.

Maybe I need a little bit of water. All right, there we go. So, I just got a little bit of water to thin this out. And so, now I’m just hitting these areas of the light catches. And I’m just using hard edge here.

And I’m going to I’m going to paint the blade itself uh a little bit. Like, I’ll do a probably a full video on the blade itself. So, I’m not going to do that one right now. And now so I have I just I hit the rim right there. And now I’m just going to I’m literally just going to follow the reflection of the lamp down this part right here.

And then now that I’ve done that, I’ll hit the edge. And it also be helpful if I wasn’t being lazy and went and got a better paintbrush, but here we go. Here we are. There’s a lot of paint on that brush. So, I’m going to I’m going to do I’ll do the rest of the model in this color and I’ll be right back.

Okay, so here’s where we are. Um I hit the the chainmail, and you can see I tried to like focus on just right where the light hits it. There’s still a very large amount of bronze in there. Hit this gauntlet. Did some scratches and and just stippling it on the head and just very lightly using the busted up brush to do that.

Hit our I hit our hard edges everywhere else. Same thing, just very carefully getting the paint in on these areas that would be chipped up. On the back, just very specifically painted this raised edge here. Hit the edges. Just put a little bit in through there.

Couple more spots here. Hit the rim. Hit this like raised edge right there. And boom. So, now this is when we’re going to start actually making this look metallic.

Okay, so this is pearl gray. Uh you can see big step up. We have to be careful with this. Uh but this is going to be right anywhere that we really want it to look like the bare metal is coming through. And this needs to be much much thinner.

Much smoother. Just a couple of like stipples up on here in the helmet. That’s too much. Just kind of blend it in with my thumb. And I’m just going to very selectively work this through.

Now, I’m going to wash this out. I’m going to just do a one final pass of this pure white. All right, so there’s there’s barely any paint on my brush. Like that’s the I’m going to work it into the very tippy tippy top. And now, we’re just we’re going to be very careful and very selective.

And this is really only just going to be dots. Just very selective. Paint’s drying up on me. It’s been so humid. I’m surprised.

I might It might be time to switch over to the the wet palette going forward. And then on this chainmail, just like you know, I really I want to approach this with a impressionistic. Like I really like trying to develop this impression style. You know, a little bit through through here. Just the light is just catching it a little bit.

Then again, the very tip top of this gauntlet. Maybe like just on the knuckle here. Because these these little glimmers are what make it seem like they’re shiny metal under there. And I’m going to spend a little bit more time on this facing here. Uh cuz again, I’m a little bit pressed for time today.

Due to uh a lot of soccer. I’m playing soccer again, my son’s playing soccer. Just a lot of fun stuff happening. So, I’m going to hit I’m just hitting like really right there where the light would catch. Then I’m going to hit this eyebrow.

And I’m going to load my brush back up. Look at how squirrely this brush Look at how the camera can’t catch where these Look at that. I’m doing it with this. If I can do it with this, don’t be afraid to do edge highlighting, guys. It’s not It is hard.

I don’t want to downplay it. But, don’t be afraid. Just Just hit it. Just hit it, baby. Okay.

And catch Let’s touch that lip. Um I just realized that I forgot to do this whole panel right here with the second color. So, we’re just Let’s get in a little bit of shimmer. And then again, really just stippling this in. And uh what Let me see.

Let me see here. You know, am going to grab some of this. All other color so I can just get a little bit more. There we go. Like that.

Boom. Uh what do I need to do on this this back? So I’m just going to catch right here. This is easy. Easy mode dominant I give it a shot.

It’s really the stippling at this point. Uh pick up a old busted up model like this guy. Not not that he’s busted up, but I mean like a model that you want to look kind of busted up. And that way if you don’t like your result, you can just come in and paint over the top of it. And it’ll just you’ll just keep adding more texture to the model.

And it’ll only make the model look better. And I’m just trying to get very faint scratches in. Just following the model. So boom. Uh it’s going to it’s going to all come together.

I think. I think this might be it for tonight. Quick little jammer. And there we go. Thanks for watching.

I’ll see you tomorrow.