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Ramiro Peira of PaintingPRO writes: Shading and highlighting the robes (blending)After the first step, I painted the the deepest shadows of the robe with a darker colour. I've given one Senator a grey robe, and the other figure a brown robe. For the grey robe, I used a mixture of blue, white and black paint. Why blue? Just to give a deeper finish. Perhaps I should have applied a lighter shadow, because blending was very hard from dark grey to black, and it developed some texture because of the successive coats of paint. ![]() Exaggerated Shading has now been applied to the robe to bring out the deepest areas. Elapsed Time So Far: Two hours, 20 minutes (for each figure). In this next step, the orange adornments and ropes were painted Burnished Gold. The black face was highlighted with a grey and blue mix, and then washed with Black Ink. The scrolls were originally painted with Bronzed Flesh, then highlighted with Bleached Bone, then then glazed with a Brown Glaze. The gold parts were washed with a mix of Brown and Red Ink. For the robes, I started blending from white to grey, which has a 25% mix of Ultramarines Blue. I do the mix on a palette, applying some white, black and blue paint. I paint tone by tone from the outer areas to the deepest ones. Each time I go down a "level" or down some "height" on the robe, I add to the white paint a bit of black and blue. ![]() This palette shows how to mix three colours. I had to blend from light-grey to dark-grey. I used a bit of blue too. ![]() The brown robe was easier than the grey one (which took an hour and 20 minutes!), because the shadows and highlighting process took me just 40 minutes. ![]() The robes are now finished. Elapsed Time So Far: 4 hours each (average). Next Time: Finishing the Details! |