#painting method

[minisception]

Hi, came across your soulblight minis and love the color scheme. What’s your recipe for the cloth on things like the tabards on cloaks on the vampires/skeletons? Thank you in advance!

If you're talking about the black-to-ghosty/witchflame green transition, like the tabards and standard of my mortek guard:

The sad answer to my black-to-green cloth scheme is 'too many applications of too many colors. The scheme is mostly taken from this old how-to-paint-Nagash gw youtube video from way back in the end times:

The method's evolved over time, and currently looks like:

Black Undercoat

Celestra Grey at the ends where you want it to be green, jagged up at the top around where the transition to black should happen, like in the nagash video. On a wrinkly cloth area, pick out the higher wrinkles over the transition area.

Incubi Darkness over the black area, stripey overlapping the celestra like in the nagash video, maybe leaving black in the recesses or towards the top for larger areas. If you've got a lot of texture, then the incubi should be on the raised edges up in the black and down in the lowered recesses where it meets the celestra grey for the transition.

First divergence from the Nagash video, I drybrush ulthuan grey over the celestra, heavier towards the ends and very lightly over the transition area.

dilute nihilakh oxide to lahmian medium about 1:2 or 1:3 (play around, see what works), plaint it over the celestra grey and up above the transition a bit. Might work better with contrtast medium instead of lahmian since that's more meant for glazing, I keep meaning to try that, but filled a whole pot with the lahmian mixture and haven't run out of that yet.

Second divergence from the nagash video - they use a very thinned town (like 1:4 with lahmian) coelia greenshade wash many layers until the stripey transition between the black and green disappears. I use slightly less dilution (1:2 or 1:3) for slightly fewer layers, but prepare three separate washes with that mis - nuln oil, coelia, and biel-tan. I start with the nuln oil over the incubi area, while it's still wet I apply the coelia over the transition, letting them mix a bit, and while that's still wet the biel tan over the green area. You probably don't have to do this while they're all wet, though, you can proably start with the blacks up high to get the incubi to fade back into black, then do the coelias over the transition, and then the biel tan over the green. You can also just skip the biel tan, coelia alone is a spookier bluish green, but I like that vibrant witch-fire green at the edges. Again, might be better with contrast medium instead of lahmian medium these days.

Once more or less satisfied with the blend, go back to highlight, starting with incubi darkness in the black areas picking out just raised edges and trailing off as you reach the point in the transition where incubi darkness is no longer lighter than anything else. On large flat areas like the standard, I'll create some highlights of my own, wider at the bottom and pulling up into points kind of like little wicks of flame, and concentrate them at the bottom and sides leaving more black towards the top and middle.

Same Highlight but with Kabalite green, starting and ending a bit lower down the model, tough I might also pick out some of the folds or wrinkles at the very top like on the banner if it seems it needs it.

Again but lower with Sybarite Green

Again but lower with Gauss Blaster Green

Again but lower with Ulthuan Grey.

NOTE: these are supposed to be highlights picking out folds and edges and tattered holes and such, try not to cover up the entire blend. ALSO, unlike normal highlighting, while are picking out raised edges, the brigher highlight is lower down. Like fire.

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Variant: nighthaunt upper cowl

no initial blend. Started with incubi, nuln oil wash (separate wash of nuln oil mixed with black paint towards the top, skip straight to the highlight steps 7+, adding a layer or two highly diluted (like 1:4 with lahmian) biel tan over the highlighted areas and a bit up into the black at the end before a second final highight of ultuan grey at the end. This was a lot faster, and in retrospect maybe looks cooler?

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ANYWAY, as you would expect, this takes for gods damned ever, so I don't like to do it a lot. In the past I saved it pretty much exclusively for necromancers and necromancer-adjacent characters. Even vampires got plainer green cloth. Nighthaunts are an exception, all the nighthaunts get a version of this, but a faster one that skips the overall blend, mostly just black with (still too many) green highlights. Vampires get more or less the nighthaunt treatment (black w/ green highlights only) on their armor, but I'm considering changing vampire armor to the same method but purple, now that I'm no longer in my green and green alone phase.

OBR get to be the real exception, with the full process on all of their cloth, but they're special (they get not one but two too-effortful parts, the tabbards and the swords), and also I'm already starting to regret it for how long they're taking and might go to more nighthaunt style of just highlights for the tabards, saving the blend for banners & characters.

[shifting-with-august]

okaaay, so my favorite Barbie movie back then was Rapunzel. I literally watched it so many times when I was a kid, to the point that some scenes feel like I've actually experienced them??? 😭 (does it make sense? It feels like it's my own memory HAHAA) Anyway I watched it again last night and when Rapunzel used her paintbrush to make a portal, I immediately thought of shifting. I'm sure there are already a lot of methods that are similar (or maybe the steps are exactly like in the movie) but I think IT WOULD BE REALLY COOL ESPECIALLY IF YOUR DR SELF IS KINDA ARTISTIC YOU KNOW,,,, AND MY DR SELF (and cr self, ofc) REALLYYYY LOVES ART

Might try this the next time I shift. I know I'm on my shifting break but I freaked out last night bc using this kind of method would be cool. 😄 Most of the time, I relied on the raven, julia, and lucid dream methods, as well as the void state so I might try something different.

[sadisthetic]

goop

[ewan-99]

ruidusborn

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painting practice #2

[palossssssand]

Gearing up for artfight, here's a new ref for a very old character! Müri(any pronouns) is part of a godly pantheon, being the god of mischief, mystery, and mayhem, among other things. The black and white markings aren't fixed, their skin shifts like a chameleon and can even turn invisible.

The very original drawing of him under the cut!

[11thsense]

Some Sargent quotes.

[no-129]

Art Tutorial| 3 coloring methods

If you're frustrated at coloring or don't know how to do the color, please check and try them. They may inspire you to find a new way. Any feedback and suggestions are welcome!

[skunkes]

my digital sketchbook might be empty this year bc ive been spending all my time on paper

[starryguykai]

closer than you’d think

[spaciebabie]

more of yall need 2 do speedpaints. let me see your process and the brushes you use and what canvas size you default ta and how you sketch and color and

[beefcliff]

a little comic about growing pains

transcript under the cut

send me an ask.

pup stares at the ceiling, laying next to a friend whom they have just slept with. their friend lays contentedly, satisfied with the encounter. pup sits up, and the friend takes notice --"what's got you up, pup? it's 2 late." (it is in fact 2 late) "yeah, i know. i'm just thinkin' again." --"'bout what?" view of hallway, showing a long line of nearly identical doors. we do not know which door our characters are in. "how can you tell the difference between romantic and platonic love?" --"i don't think that's a question with just one answer." the friend is hesitant to give advice. the friend is older and more experienced than pup, and knows that their experiences have led them down a very specific path, one that may not be good for pup. "i want to know what your answer is, silly." pup puts their jacket on, eager to follow this line of conversation. the friend sits up in bed, reluctant, but slowly following pup outside and following the thread of conversation. abstract view of the staircase at the end of the hallway, pointed down towards the exit in which they're headed. --"i can do that. i used to think romantic love is platonic love + lust … but now i sleep with my friends so now there's no difference at all." exterior shot, now. they're sitting on the curb. they each have an unlit cigarette in their mouth. pup has the lighter. "is there room for romance in your life?" pup hands the lighter to the friend. the friend lights their own cigarette using pup's lighter and pup hopes for a brief moment that the friend will light their cigarette, too. --"again, it's just indistinct from sleeping with a good friend to me." the friend passes back the lighter. pup does not light their own cigarette. "gotcha" pup presses their cigarette into the ground as if to put it out before it ever saw a flame.

[saradika]

bleed for me

I’ve been working on a new hobby for a while (and it’s far from perfect!!) but it’s cool to think I made this from start to finish!

[binart]

been thinking about him and his little shorts... 🥰

[applecoreart]

+BSTproject: Crane painterly test doodle -- I don't really like rendering character designs in this style and haven't attempted it in years, but it's a helpful method for really seeing what's going on with anatomy and forms in a design by treating it as 3D rather than 2D. I was able to refine some details better this way. The shading is muddy in areas and it's not the greatest, but I thought it was kind of aesthetically pleasing in a way that warranted an update post.

I recently also figured out a big mistake I was making with the edge of the skull (was making it too wide) that's been causing problems for ages, so the designs are looking much better now :)

[constellation-skirmishes]

general skywalker gets a tattoo, more at 11

[fleshdyke]

wip 👍