David Jake wrote:
ohh okay yeah i've seen that guy, so it's somehthing you would just paint into the creases?
yeah cuz i just painted a night wathc guy purple then i put a purple wash over it and i was like huh that doesn't make any kind of difference, then i spilt the wash all over the place and there ya go.
No, you paint it over the basecoat then let it collect in the grooves and crevases of the sculpt, and it creates shadows. Takes some practice. Its further brought out with drybrushing.
Id strongly suggest you take some old figures with lots of sculpting high and low points and practice. It takes a while to get the hang out doing it well. I started this painting crap in like 1989 and it was a couple of years before I finally got the hang of inking/washes.'
If you painted a Night Watch guy purple, it wouldnt work very well because that sculpt is pretty flat -nowhere for the ink to settle, it would just drip off. Start with a shade of purple for example on a figure with sculpted DEPTH, like that Hawk figures jacket, and when its dried, lay it down flat on the table. Once its dried, then take a large amount of ink on the brush and brush it generously over the part. Let gravity do the rest and allow to dry. Once its dry, then drybrush highpoints on the sculpt, using a combination of the original basecoat color and a very small amount of white.
Also, having a hair dryer in your toolkit helps speed drying times, or a small tabletop space heater.
