Read the full replay hereLe6n wrote: Thanx. The recipe for smooth thransitions is simple as hell, but requires lots of practice and tons of patience. First of all I paint whole area with mid-tone colour. Then I start building lights with diluted colour brighter than mid-tone. I also apply many layers (that's why the technique is called 'layering') of brighter and brighter colours until the lights come up. Then I start applying glazes (so strongly diluted colour that it almost becomes coloured water) with darker colours into recesses to build shadows. Inbetween I apply several glazes with mid-tone over the whole surface, to join lights, mids and shadows. Then I start to lighten up the lights again. And so on ... Repeating layers of diluted / transparent colours and connecting them with glazes will make your transitions smoother and smoother. It's just up to you, when it's good enough ...
I had a few more questions that i did not wanted to pose in the WIP section of the forum there for I started this thread.
Disclaimer: I know that there is a lot of text and video tutorials out on the web, and i have looks at other resources for some time prior to making this post, so I hope you all will help me clear up/specify a few things.
Questions start:
I have had some success in making smooth transessions the mini as i resolt the mini become glossy and i end up losing the transision in the Specular reflection.
I use Vallejo - Game color pains on a white GW primer. I suspect that the glossiness come in someway from the water I use to dilute my paints, and the many layers of thin paint I apply. So the first question is how do I avoid the use to using many layers of heavy diluted paints, or get rid of the gloss ? Note matt vanish dose not work.
When glazeing how thin is the glaze?, I have been experimenting with glazes but I dont really see any effect when I apply my thin layere of glaze mid tone, I think my dilution rate normally are about 1:5(paint:water).
here is a example, I did how however not use that many layers and that diluted paint on this mini. Link
Now to the hard one: how large a jump between colors shall I make when layering?
I can try to uploade some pictures later today, to try and help this question.
I know that there is room for a lot of personal opinion, in the answers i have posed, so please give your personal opinion if you have one.
I still a question I will like to pose but lest get this one rolling before I extent the mini wall of text.
Regards
Daniel