Happy New Year!
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Welcome back guys, this is part one of a new series focusing on blending techniques.
Today I'm looking at something I call fat glazing.
It's a simple way to build up smooth transitions fairly quickly.
So on our pallette we have
Averland Sunset
Rhinox Hide
Sunset Purple
Now, this is from Scale Color but really you can just use any purple you like.
And finally, some white
Take some of your yellow and lay down a solid base colour, I recommend applying this in
two to three thin coats.
Ok so now, take some white and mix it into your yellow, I usually create a little transition
on the pallette so I can easily go back and forth between different hues if I need to.
We're going to create a fat glaze, which is essentially a paint consistency that is half
way between a layer and a glaze.
So approximately 2 parts water to 1 part paint.
When you apply this to the model, sweep the brush across the surface in the direction
of the highlight.
Notice how it creates a fairly smooth transition in a single pass.
You'll have to experiment a little bit in regards to paint consistency, not all paint
is the same so it's difficult to give an exact ratio, but when you find it once you'll be
able to find it again, and after a while you'll just get a feel for it.
So build up your highlight in a few passes, each time taking lighter paint from the transition
on your pallette.
Next we'll create a thin glaze with our Rhinox Hide. Just take some of your paint and add
a drop of water to it.
To check the consistency you can use a paper towel test.
So to do this, just take a paper towel, put some of the glaze on your brush and touch
the tip against the towel. You're going to know you have the right consistency when the
paint explodes away from the brush.
Like this.
Now simply glaze in the opposite direction. Notice how little of the glaze is actually
on the brush.
You're going to want to build this up over a few layers.
If you want to gild the lily you can add another glaze, this time using purple.
This is going to give you a more interesting colour.
So just to reiterate the idea, I'll show that again on this part of the shoulder here.
So like you did before draw the paint up to where you want the highlight.
And just build this up over a few layers.
We'll add a little light glint here just to make it more interesting.
So what we're going to do is just take our brightest colour and paint a 'T' shape at
the very edge here.
Then we're simply going to blur it out slightly by glazing over the area using that same colour.
For the shadow we'll just go straight for the purple this time, just to make it a bit
more interesting.
So again we're using a thin glaze here and we're going to build this up over a few layers,
making sure to let it dry between each pass.
Alrighty! So that was a quick introduction to fat glazing, hope fully you found it useful.
Next video we'll be looking at over glazing where we'll create a highlight without actually
painting one.
Which sounds a bit weird but it will make sense, don't worry!
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if you haven't already and I'll see you all in the next one.
Thanks again.
Bye for now.