DrRadium
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I hadn't thought of dry brushing away from edges, but it makes sense. I had never considered chisel brushes before either. Is there a size you'd recommend? And do you use it along the thin edge for lines, for broadly feathering away from lines, both? Trying to get a idea of how it is used, as my googling for videos yielded use in general watercolor painting.
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Do you get the dark shadows at borders with liners, washes, or something else? I seem to get my most consistent results with washes, but they always seem to muddy the colors everywhere else too much. Liners avoid that, but then I have trouble getting into all the places I need to be and doing it consistently. Just trying to improve by seeing what people who paint better than I do (i.e. pretty much everyone) do to achieve desired effects. Thanks, Mike
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I saw your message about YInMn blue back in a now closed topic. There are some limited edition artists paints though they're mostly sold out. But there is a way to get it.
Back before there was anything available except a $200, 2oz tube of paint. I got tired of waiting and started making it. Turns out it isn't very hard especially for anyone with any kind of chemistry or other wet lab bench science background (I do). I make fluid acrylics for painting minis from it as well as some green and purple pigments that are made by swapping out some of the indium and manganese for other metals. The blue is nice rich, matte blue. Extremely opaque, and it can be made is a variety of darknesses. From a light sky blue to a blue-black by varying manganese content. I've made the standard PB86 hue and a darker one closer to a navy blue into acrylic paint.
If you ever want to try some YInMn paint out, let me know I can send a little to play around with.
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I saw your message about YInMn blue back in a now closed topic. The bluetifiul crayon is just colored to look like YInMn blue. It doesn't contain any. It is still hard to get, though somewhat more available now. I got tired of waiting and started making it a while back. Turns out it isn't very hard especially for anyone with any kind of chemistry or other wet lab bench science background, which I do. I've made fluid acrylics for painting minis from it as well as some green and purple pigments that are made by swapping out some of the indium and manganese for other metals. It is nice rich, matte blue, but how dark the blue is can be tuned by varying manganese content. My profile currently has a header image of a batch of freshly made pigment and a reaper 14672 figurine I painted with it.
If you ever want to try some of the paint out, let me know I can send a little to play around with.
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On a 1-10 scale, 10 being the best, I'd give this one about a 14. The modeling and lighting effects blow me away. -
OK, it is not nearly as nice as yours, and the basing is covered with snow. And I put down too much blood. Although it is pretty close to the blood expected from what happened. Blood sensitive may may want to skip this one. For that reason I am going to link to it rather than post it direct. I have a head canon that goes along with it: Creeping through the fresh fallen spring snow, he followed the wounded elk tracks towards the stream. Thinking back to the previous evenings conversation "That arrogant ranger thinks only he knows how to track, I've tracked and hunted since I was a kid. Let's see what they say when I bring back fresh meat. He noticed a set of human footprints that also seemed to track the animal and realized he better hurry, another hunter was seeking the same prey. Ahead by the stream a large figure loomed beyond the branches heavy with wet snow, muffling sound and making the forest seem earily quiet. But when he came to the stream the scent of warm blood permeated the air and set the gristly scene. Beside the stream stood an enormous elk-like creature on two hooves. In one hand, a still twitching human figure, blood gushing from the wound left when one leg was ripped off. Done sucking the marrow from the long bones, it dropped the first leg and ripped off the second. The man's blood melting the snow where it fell and starting to stain stream red. It was a wendigo. Lucky for him, preoccupied with eating, it had not noticed him. He started slowly backing up and thought he might escape when he and the beast both heard the fallen branch crack under his foot. It's head swiftly swung towards his location and his eyes locked with its malevolent gaze, as it's attention turned from its last meal towards its next. https://imgur.com/dtvEqgF
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Black 3.0 is darker but finicky to work with. KoPro's musou black is thinner, easier to work with, and darker. Brush applied it is reported to reflect only 1.2%. I've tried Black 2.0, 3.0, and musou black and musou is the darkest. It about as touch tolerant as black 3.0, maybe a little more when painted on primer.
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Semi-necroposting but I wanted to say this is brilliant! I've been trying ti figure out what I wanted to do with the wendigo figure besides set everything in a deep recent snowfall. I wasn't feeling very inspired to paint it, so I was looking through images of wendigo minis when I saw yours and realized "prey! That's what it needs!' And from a lot purchase if old minis I had one misisng a weapon and I didn't care for anyway. So now he's prey. ' Thanks for the inspiration! I'm starting to paint again after almost 40 years (I was last painting figures for an AD&D campaign) so I'm not very good, and and yes it's imitative but that truly is the sincerest form of flattery!
