What's up guys, welcome back!
Don't worry I don't know what that intro was either!
This is the first video in a series on how I painted Summer from Hasslefree Miniatures.
It's a great little model, there's not a lot of detail on it but the scale makes it quite
a challenge to paint.
We'll start off by going over how I achieved the denim effect on the jeans.
Begin by priming the model in black, then once that's dry, prime again this time in
white, spraying the model from above at about a 60 degree angle.
It's important that you don't get a full coverage with the paint.
The effect you're looking for is that the white paint creates a speckled pattern on
the surface of the model.
Which will give you a nice starting point for your denim texture.
For your initial base colour you're going to want to use a medium desaturated blue tone.
I've using Cantabaric Blue from Scale Color but you could use Games Workshop Kantor Blue
mixed with a bit of Caledor Sky to get the same sort of colour.
Add some water to thin it down to a glaze consistency.
Now we're simply going to glaze over the surface of the jeans.
Notice, that because the paint is so thin, the grain from the primer shows through underneath,
that's going to give you your inital denim texture.
Keep the glaze moving over the model.
Don't let the edges dry, you don't want any stains, so be careful to keep your brush active
so you don't give the glaze time to dry.
Add another coat of the glaze just to darken the colour
a little.
You can see this gives you quite a nice effect already but we're going to build on that by
first adding some shadows.
Make a glaze with Valejo Armour Brown and with a small amount on the brush just glaze
into the darkest areas of the jeans.
So here under the leg where it's tilted under the body, the crotch, and any little creases
you can see in the fabric.
And we'll just line round these little pockets on the side here to help seperate them a bit.
Mix some Scale Color Light Skin into your base colour, this is a really nice pale orange
colour, there isn't a direct equivalent in the GW line but if you mixed a bit of Lugganath
Orange into some Kislev Flesh you'd get pretty close.
To continue we'll stipple this colour onto the raised areas of the jeans, all the places
where we want to build up a highlight.
If you're not familiar with stippling, all you're doing it letting the tip of the brush
to bounce randomly over the surface, leaving little dots of colour.
We're doing this to help make the denim texture more precise and also to build up a bit of
a colour change as if the fabric has started to fade or get a bit worn out.
Keep adding more Light Skin to your mix and continue stippling.
I'll build up more of the paint around the knee area, to get a more realistic look.
Add some more Light Skin and continue building your highlights.
Now I'll pick out some of the little creases on the fabric.
To help with the texture I'll paint on some small horizontal lines along the length of
each leg.
Notice the paint is still quite thin here so that the lines don't become too intense.
Alright guys, so that is a pretty straightforward way of painting denim, it was a bit of an
experiment for me as it's the first time trying this kind of technique but I think it turned
out quite well in the end.
I hope you give it a try it's quite fun to do.
In part II we'll go over how I approach painting female skin.
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