How to blend

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Nasty

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Hi there... I have been wanting to know now for some time how some people are able to blend the colours. e.g the \"Nurgle Troll\" in ARCHIVES. There are the colours blended so one are unable to see the different colours used. What technique are used for that ? layering, washing, special paint or brushes. Or more likely something i have never heard of... thanks in advance
 
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U4-Welcome

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More ofthen than not it\'s basically layering with mucho layers and very thin paints. Then everybody has his own little secret to make it smooth. For instance, Valander should be here any second telling you about tweening :D.
 
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Valander

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Originally posted by U4-Welcome
More ofthen than not it\'s basically layering with mucho layers and very thin paints. Then everybody has his own little secret to make it smooth. For instance, Valander should be here any second telling you about tweening :D.
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LOL... damn... now I\'ve become predictable. ;)

I\'ve been slammed hard with finals for the past week, so I\'m a little slow on the uptake at the moment.

There\'s lots of ways to blend. You can do wet-on-wet, layers, tweening (my personal fave, obviously), or conceivably just about any other method.

All of these have two things in common, though: first, paints are always thinned, and most definitely not \"straight\" out of the bottle; second, they all take a lot of practice. ;)

You don\'t need any special paint or brushes, though--although a good paint will go a long way. I prefer Vallejos, but you can still get good blending with Reaper, GW, or Adiken, and probably a few others (though not likely craft paints, such as Apple Barrel).

Probably one of the easier methods would be multiple washes. I\'d suggest maybe working on this first, until you\'re comfortable with using really thin paints. There\'s tons of articles here on this site that go over how to use washes, and more on how to do layering. Check them out.

I\'m going to try to actually do an article (with pictures!) on tweening, which is basically a technique that I ripped off from Thierry Husser of Rackham fame, (though it looks like it\'s actually used by several people, but that\'s where I first came across it)--though nobody but me seems to be calling it this goofy name. ;)
 
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