What's up guys, how you all doing?
I've been catching up on all the messages, and I got a few complaints about the memes
being a distraction, so just for those people.
Here's some dancing.
So apart from the dancing, today we're going to be looking at a Harlequin model.
No no no, a Harlequin, not Harley Quinn.
We're going to be using one of these guys here, I think this one here will do just nicely.
I think it's pretty cool, there's a decent amount of detail without being too cluttered.
We'll start off with the yellow bits and for our base colour we'll use GW Averlund Sunset.
So I'll paint this on pretty thin over a couple of layers so we get a really nice smooth solid
yellow to work over.
For the first highlight we'll add a little white into the averlund sunset and a bit of
water to thin it down to a layer consistency.
So thin enough that the paint becomes transparent but not so thin that it starts to verge into
wash or glaze territory.
And with a small amount on the brush we'll sweep the bristles up over the surface to
where we want the highlight, so in this case, the top of the knee pad.
So you can see I do this is three little strokes making sure the paint stays wet throughout,
so I'm not pausing long enough to let it dry and I'm letting the paint gather up at that
top edge so that we get a nice even highlight.
We'll do this over a couple of layers letting it dry each time until the colour at the highlight
point becomes opaque.
We always want to make sure that main highlight is a solid colour before moving on to our
next highlight, otherwise things just start to get messy and we want to avoid that as
much as possible.
So I'll add some more white into the mix, and a bit more water, again thinning it down
to that layer consistency.
And we'll do the same thing again, pulling the paint up over the surface letting it gather
at that top edge.
Until we get a good strong highlight.
A little more white, and some water and we'll go in for another highlight.
So you can see the highlight there at the top is really quite strong now, and we don't
have any nasty streaks or brush marks, it's all quite smooth.
It's just a matter of keeping your paint thin and minimizing the time your brush it moving
the paint over the surface.
You really just want to move the paint into position then leave it.
Once you start fussing about that's where you can run into problems.
Alright so we'll move onto the shading now, and I'll going to add a small amount of Scale
Colour Inktensity Violet to the base colour.
Now this is an ink, so you need to be pretty frugal with it as it's really quite intense.
If you don't have this ink you can use GW Druchi Violet instead, or really any purple
colour, it's up to you.
And I'll thin this down with some water to a glaze consistency.
Then with a very small amount on the brush we're going to pull it down over the knee
pad towards the lower edge.
And we're just going to build this up over a few layers, gradually intensifying the colour,
letting the glaze dry between each application.
It doesn't take long for it to dry as we're using such a small amount of the paint.
Now that we've built that up a little bit, we'lll switch to using just the violet ink
on it's own and we'll add some water, again thinning it down quite a bit so it's essentially
a glaze consistency.
If you're using this ink you'll find you need hardly any of the ink for this, so just be
careful you don't want to have too much or you're going to have a bad time when you apply
it to the model.
So this time, with a small amount on the brush we're just going to stipple little dots of
the ink glaze near the bottom of the knee pad.
As I said, be careful here as this can become way too intense very quickly, so you need
to pay attention to what the colour is doing as you're applying it.
You can see this gives you a really nice shade colour for the yellow.
For the last step we'll make a thin glaze with GW Flash Gitz Yellow, by just adding
a bit of water to it.
And we'll use that to briefly glaze over that highlight which gets rid of that slightly
washed out look in the highlight and leaves you with a really bright, and clean yellow
colour.
Alright guys!
I hope you got something out of this.
I've still to finish off the Malifaux series, there'll only be a couple more videos on that
though.
I figured you must be getting bored of them by now so thought I'd throw in something different
just to break it up a bit.
Thank you very much for your support, stay tuned for more videos coming soon.
Thanks again
Bye for now.