Angus, what are you doing sitting in here with the lights off?
I cannae find the light switch!
It's right here!
I swear that wasn't there before you came in. They aliens with the big elbows must have
brought it back.
Tskk I mean I'd like to believe you Angus I really would, but you always say it's the
aliens with the big elbows.
Aye well, that's because it always is!
I don't expect you to believe Scull.. Er I mean.. Kujo, You're so caught up in your techniques
and colour theories, the aliens with the big elbows could be standing right behind you
and you'd no even notice!
Erm.. Are they right behind me?
Not any more!
Right... Well, how come I'm scully anyways? Shouldn't that be you, you're the one with
the red hair!
Aye but I'm the intelligent one!
But Scully WAS the intelligent one!
Right! Enough of all that, what we investigating today? I hope it's got big elbows.
Oh yeah, right, nice segue Angus.
Seemless.
We're going to be having a look at how this rope texture was created.
Oh aye, no big elbows then? Pff, what a let down.
Alright, I'm away for a sleep then, wake me up if you see any elbows alright?
I'm going to start off with some of this Secret Weapon Old Mud, but you can use any similar
colour , you could use something like GW Karak Stone or Zandri Dust, whatever muted brown
colour you happen to have lying about will work fine.
To that we'll mix in some black to darken it down quite a fair bit.
We'll use this as our base colour, here you can see how it looks on the model after it's
blocked in.
There's actually quite a bit of snobbery around using black to darken things down
If there's one thing I can't stand it's snobbery.
but, eh, I think it's fine. It works really well.
Now if you just start adding your highlight colour to this it's going to end up quite
flat looking, because we have all that black in there the highlights would end up going
grey.
Here, does that no contradict what you were just saying about it being fine to use black
to darken down your colours?
What? Oh right, yeah kinda. But if you'd of let me finish I was about to explain what
you can do so it doesn't go grey.
Awright, well hurry up and finish then, I canny sit here all day listening to your glaikit
puss bleatin oan an oan about utter pish.
I'm a busy man, I've got people to see sheep to shear. Ken whit I mean?
Sheep to shear? Is that what you're calling it now?
Whit? Whit de ye mean by that?
Well...
Ohya!
Uh!
Ah.
Ohya..
Arhh.
What the... right, right, right look! Look!That was just that one time right, I mean, I can
explain! I was trying tae... dae the.... erm...
Right, as I was saying! If you were to add black to this you'd end up with flat, grey
highlights, so to combat that what you're going to do instead is mix in a bit of your
Old Mud, and in addition, to make the colour a bit more interesting, we'll also add some
Valejo English Uniform.
So this makes our colour a bit less boring.
And we'll use that as our initial highlight.
And we'll paint it onto the raised parts of the rope, leaving that really dark colour
in the recesses.
The idea here is to gradually add more of the old mud and english uniform to the highlight,
building up the colour around the upper part of the rope, then when we come to brighten
it at the end the colour wont end up going grey because we're going to have a lot less
of that black in there.
Alright so, once you've finished picking out the raised parts of the rope, mix a bit more
of your Old Mud and a touch of English Uniform into the highlight and we'll add another layer.
This time focusing more on this upper part of the rope.
You'll be painting texture over the top of this so don't worry too much if your blending
isn't spot on, the texture will mask most of the mistakes, so don't feel you need to
spend a lot of time on these highlights.
Again we'll add more of the old mud and a bit English Uniform into the mix and we'll
go back for a final highlight.
Pulling the paint up just around that upper area in the middle there.
To finish off we'll add our texture.
For that we're going to lighten the highlight with a little White Sands.
You need to make this quite a bit brighter than your highlight so that you'll be able
to see the texture, otherwise it'll just sort of disappear into the mix.
Now what you're going to do is paint on little lines running across the width of each piece
of rope.
Leaving a small gap between each one. Hold the brush quite close to end of the ferrule
when you're doing this, that'll give you more precise control over the tip of the brush.
Just take your time and work your way along each strand of the rope, painting on your
lines.
You might find that some of the strands are too thin to let you paint a line, if that's
the case you can just use dots instead.
I'm not going to show me painting the whole rope, I think once you've seen a few strands
you kinda get the idea.
So once you've worked your way over the whole rope mix a bit more white sands into your
paint and we'll add a few little highlights, just near the top of the rope, and I'll apply
these as little dots, near the top part of the rope, and I'll try my best to target the
texture that's already there so I keep those little gaps between each one.
And there we have it.
You can see it give you a pretty decent effect.
Just while we've got the old mud on the pallette I'll show how I highlighted the little stitches.
So all I do is mix a bit of white sands into the old mud and then I pull that over each
stitch, drawing the paint up to that top side.
Alright guys, so if you ever find yourself painting a rope, I hope you try this out,
if you can paint a short line, you should be able to do this.
Just remember to hold the brush fairly close to the tip to get more control and leave a
small gap between each line.
Let me know what you thought of the video, thanks for everything, stay safe out there.
Bye for now...
So err do we get it on right now or do we drag this out for another 11 seasons first?
What?
Whit?