shading yellow, help...:D

[shakes]

im having issues shading yellow, cant find a pallet i like. all the ones ive used using green and brown and black shading have looked dirty. im looking for a bright, glowy yellow, something very warm. its for some free-hand on a model were im using OSL. the parts that are in the light are all fine but the stuff in the deepest shadows i just cant seem to get right might a dark grey be the way to go? any advice would be appreciated.

[Jen]

I've sometimes had luck going to orange for shading bright yellows.

[Neolis]

Depends the yellow and the purpose but I tend to use the snakebite brown from GW or Earth brown with yellow added to mix from reaper. Lets see a pic and it might help us see where things are going wrong with the yellow.

[Hosea]

There are many ways of "doing" yellow I learned.

One of the ways I quite like it:

base coat: white / back undercoat (depends on what kind of depth you want to achieve)

Shading: medium brown, then light brown, then light brown mix with bleach bone & yellow

Main color: yellow

Highlighting: Yellow mix with bleach bone

Good luck and show us your testing / end result

[mahon]

I found that a good way of painting nicely saturated yellows was underpainting:

You paint the surface with white and shade it to dark browns or blacks, and then apply a glaze (or a few) of yellow ink. I don't think you even need to thin it down...

[shakes]

ill have a more in-depth look at my problem when i get home and try some of the suggestions, i especially like the last. ive been away for a month on a climbing/sailing trip so have only painted for about 2 hours which was yesterday were i immediately had yellow issues. i get home tomorrow, have a bunch of new paints/minis waiting which i ordered when i left, ill get some pics up asap.

cheers, shakes

[Skeeve]

Try either purple or violet, applied in thin layers. Violet makes for much deeper shadows.
If you look at my Grumlok and Gazbag thread here https://www.chestofcolors.com/forum/view ... =28&t=5761 this is how I shaded the moon.

[Hosea]

O, very interesting, purple and violet? in the photo, it looks like an orange shade and turn out to be very nice. purple and violet cn achieve that? I need to try it, would you mind to share a bit more tips about it? Thanks a lot.

[Skeeve]

As far as I remember I was using thin layers of VMC purple to do it. Violet , also applied in thin layers makes deeper and somewhat brownish shadows. The point here is not to overdo it. Whichever color you use the layers should be thin and you don't want to see actual bright purple or bright violet as you shadows.