How to, paint white robes properly (ie. never been able to blend them correctly) -reaper Deva

[StarFyre]

How to, paint white robes properly (ie. never been able to blend them correctly) -reaper Deva

Hello,

So I want to learn a good way to paint flowing cloaks/robes...as i\'ve never been able to manage to make the blends look smooth.

Are there any specific suggestions for it?

As well, I want these robes to be white...what colours are good for the recesses?

I was thinking...a bit of bleached bone, but mainly light greys...with a bit of glazes from a darker grey right at the deepest..

Any other colours people suggest?

The model is this one:

EDIT: reading a tutorial here on sheer clothing, I remembered it also had white robes, Chrispy used light green and green grey to shade white...

Regards,


Sanjay

 

[Ritual]

On flowing robes and such I use wet blending for the major part of the blending work. When I\'ve got a good foundation I smoothen out and tweak both shading and highlighting by adding glazes. I often take the highlights further by glazing slightly lighter colours very thinly on top of the wet blended highlights. Same thing can be done with the shading, but there it\'s more a question of smoothing things out or introducing some interesting colour shifts.

For doing white there\'s two paths. One cold and one warm! The warm one can be obtained by using Graveyard Earth, Bleached Bone and White. But don\'t overdo the shading or you will get a beige looking result instead of white. For a cold white I\'d use Space Wolves Grey a dash of Codex Grey (or even something darker) and White. Same thing here... don\'t overdo the shading.

About the shading... what I mean with not overdoing it is that you can\'t make the shaded areas too large. You can have quite deep shadows, but only in very small areas.

Hope this helps.

 

[DaN]

The thing to remember with shading cloth is that although you want the blending to be as smooth as possible, you also want to show the shaded areas clearly enough
(due to scale, you need to emphasise)

(I\'ll use layering for this example as it explains it better)
This means that in some of the more folded areas of cloth, you may only be doing 3-4 layers of blending in order to give a contrast, whereas in the larger, flatter areas you maybe be using more than double.

Does that make sense?