Happy New Year to everyone! Among other things today, I worked on some bases. These were all going to have similar colors, so I set them out, and began to put down my lighter colors. Not only would all of the shading be done with a series of glazes, I was also going to tint various parts of the bases as well.
The initial layers I painted were all very simple... some vomit brown alternating with a little Vallejo green sky. I tried to keep it all as similar as possible, so that you could see what some glazing can do in this situation.
You can see on the right that I have a few glazing colors out... a black, a sepia, and a green.
My first glazes were more about establishing those color variations. You can always shade darker with further layers!
Here are a few images showing these first layers.
After those colors were established, I darkened the shadow areas some more.
Just to see what I had, I painted the black around the edges of the bases. From this point, I will go back with more middle tones to create even more color variations.
Once I finish off those last bits, I will post the pictures for you :-)
Beautiful work as always. Do you do commission painting?
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Ralph.
Hello! Thanks for the kind words! Yes, I do commission painting. It's quite busy right now, between the kickstarter and other projects :-)
DeleteI so often get in the trap of doing drybrush layering for my bases, you are making me think again. Although I did glaze some bloody colors on my most recent bases.
ReplyDeleteI tend to get in that same mode myself, particularly when I am just doing one base at a time. When I have to do many bases at once, such as this, I will remember this kind of technique.
DeleteThis method was developed when I had to paint a whole series of blasted concrete style bases. It was the best way to get color variations on something that could have been kinda monotonous! :-)
Awesome
ReplyDeleteAre these homemade bases, in which case do you have an article on there making?
ReplyDeleteI'm really digging the stone flooring. I have a project for which I can't find either commercial bases or textured plasticard that lives up to what I want but these are exactly the right style (the two left-most bases in the second photo).
This base set is part of the Groundwerks line of bases from CoolMini. I think they are available now...
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