What's up Guys, welcome back!
Hope you're enjoying the Christmas festivities.
Today we're going to be looking at how to paint textured red fabric.
For our base colour we'll start by mixing a saturated red with a nice dark green.
I'm using Scale Color Antares Red and Boreal Green but you can check the description box
for some pretty good equivalents.
For out first highlight we'll add some red in there and just mix in a touch of water
to thin it down to a layer consistency.
So I'm just going to block that in whereever the light would be strongest.
So along the back near the top, his shoulders and any little folds along the sides or on
the arms etc.
You can see we've started very dark but we'll build this up to quite a strong red over the
next few steps, that darkness in the base colour is going to give us a really strong
contrast at the end.
We'll add some water to that highlight colour, thinning it down to a glaze consistency.
and we'll just use that to glaze over the transition between the base and highlight,
you can see I'm moving the brush from the base cover, towards the highlight.
This is going to help blur out that edge.
Mix in a bit more red and a bit of water, thinning it down to a heavy glaze consistency,
so just a little thinner than a layer.
And we'll use that to build up both the colour and the texture.
So what I'm doing here is just stippling over the parts of the coat where I want to build
up the highlights, I'm being quite heavy handed at this stage, I'm not too fussed about neatness
here, all I'm doing it bouncing the brush over the surface, essentially dabbing on little
blobs of colour.
Even though I'm not being very precise here, because I have the paint pretty thin, I still
have a lot of control over the colour.
If I want the colour to be stronger I can simply apply more dots and sploges at that
point.
Here on the folds we don't really need to build up texture here just yet, so I'll just
paint these highlights on normally.
The surface area is pretty small so texture we here now will be lost later on, so just
painting them on is a bit of a time saver.
On the shoulder you can see I'm applying more dots right in the middle at the highest point
and then I'm making them more sparse as I move away from that point.
Add a bit more red and we'll keep building up the colour.
Still using the same technique, stippling on the colour, just trying to intensify the
red towards the middle of the back, and the tops of the shoulders.
Again don't worry about adding texture to the folds we'll get to that later on.
We'll use pure red now and just keep stippling the colour on.
So it's a pretty simple process really, we just keep adding more red as we build up the
colour with lots of little dots.
When you're doing this try not to consciously think about each individual dot, instead just
let your hand shake a little bit and guide the tip of the brush around as the tip bounces
around on the surface.
We can start to add some texture on the folds now, just putting in a little row of dots
along the top.
Near the bottom here we'll switch to a darker red, more closer to out first highlight colour
and we'll add some texture so it's not so smooth.
And we'll highlight the lower part of this little tail at the side here just building
it up to red over a couple of layers.
So, now that we've build up the red, we can add some extra highlights.
To do that we're going to mix in some GW Moot Green into the red, giving us a really nice
warm tone.
And again, we're going to stipple this on, with little dots.
I'm trying to be a bit more precise now.
Using the green in the higlight gives you a really interesting colour, it might look
wrong on the palette but once you put it on the model you'll see it gives you a pretty
good effect.
We're focusing on basically all the same areas, giving a bit more attention to the back of
the coat near the neckline and the tops of the shoulders.
Add some more Moot green, now the colour is actually going to seem darker than your last
highlight while it's on the palette, but again, when you apply it to the model you'll see
it actually works really well.
To push this further we'll mix in a bit of valejo Ivory, and don't forget to thin it
down a little with some more water.
We need to be careful here as this colour is pretty bright in comparison to the past
couple of steps, so be sure it's thin enough that you can have quite a lot of control over
the opacity.
Alright so, one last highlight, just by adding some more ivory in there.
I'm being even more careful here, trying to keep these dots small and giving a bit more
thought into where I'm placing them.
You can see this gives quite a nice, natural effect.
It's not that difficult, it's just a bit labour intensive, but if you're doing a character
model or something for display it's definitely worth the extra effort.
Quite looking fowards to getting the new camera, I've got some cool plans for the coming year.
I'm hoping to do a run on Golden Demon, so I'll be stepping the painting up a couple
gears and obviously I'll be filming that, hopefully I can win something, or at least
get to the finals, I guess we'll have to see!
Thanks again for your support, I couldn't do it without you.
I hope Santa's good to you, take it easy, bye for now...