Leather
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Wyrmypops
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They're the colours I instantly gravitate to for brown leather. For extreme highlights in introduce Bubonic Brown and/or White to the Snakebite.
Could try adding a bit of dark brown ink back into the recesses if that's the end of the scale that you ain't satisfied with.
I tend to reserve greyed browns for aged items. I'm more inclined to add to add a brown to dirty up other colours.
Greying up brown, can be easy cos brown being a mix of opposite colours it occupies a place that reacts well with black or white. A dark paint like that Scorched Brown or a brown ink, with white added moves into a yummy range of grey/browns.
Could try adding a bit of dark brown ink back into the recesses if that's the end of the scale that you ain't satisfied with.
I tend to reserve greyed browns for aged items. I'm more inclined to add to add a brown to dirty up other colours.
Greying up brown, can be easy cos brown being a mix of opposite colours it occupies a place that reacts well with black or white. A dark paint like that Scorched Brown or a brown ink, with white added moves into a yummy range of grey/browns.
Einion
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Experiment then, try and few things and see what you think yourself.Rancid said:
Most people develop certain go-to colours or methods of painting things like leather and if they're used all the time things can get stale. Just a little bit of red, orange or yellow, or a flesh colour mixed into a basecoat can make all the difference between the normal way of doing something and something a little boring.
I don't know if you go for any kind of wear or weathering effects on your paintjobs but just those can go a long way to enlivening even the same old colours you always use - orangey worn edges at areas of high wear; a dark, grungy colour applied in areas that get handled at lot or are near a source of grease or moisture. This sort of thing is well worth trying.
Einion
airhead
Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
Leather has been dyed for ages.
Raw leathers slowly change colors as they are used.
Right now, my shoes have some white leather on them, belt is black leather, watchband is a cordovan (red brown), holster is a mahogany brown. The backside of the holster and the belt are both a tan color, but the back side of the holster has some nice darker browns where it sets against my body.
In my wife's closet, you can find leather shoes in white, red, blue, navy, black, green, etc.
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My point is that leathers can come in almost any color under the rainbow.
Raw leathers slowly change colors as they are used.
Right now, my shoes have some white leather on them, belt is black leather, watchband is a cordovan (red brown), holster is a mahogany brown. The backside of the holster and the belt are both a tan color, but the back side of the holster has some nice darker browns where it sets against my body.
In my wife's closet, you can find leather shoes in white, red, blue, navy, black, green, etc.
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My point is that leathers can come in almost any color under the rainbow.
plattokeefe
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i usaly mix a dark purple into the shading colours and highlight up from there.
hope this helps.
hope this helps.
PegaZus
Stealth Freak
I suppose the trick then is to make it looked like dyed leather. Just highlight the edges in tan? Or is there some better way?
Einion
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Well honestly if a belt is not brown it doesn't really tend to look like leather - I mean you don't automatically see it and think, "Ah, leather."
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Do those red boots really look like leather? I don't think so; belts, boots and a few other things will automatically be taken to be leather when we look at them but especially in miniature they don't look like that material for sure.
The only way to sell a coloured item as leather would be to show some wear, where the wear reveals a natural leather colour here and there, but this is harder to do in a very small scale and it's requires a certain style of paintjob too which might not be what you want.
So if you like a clean, even bright and cartoony, paintjob just paint things as you like and don't worry about the materials they're made from so much. Only with a highly-realistic style do we need to concentrate on this.
Einion
Compare this_____________________________to this
Do those red boots really look like leather? I don't think so; belts, boots and a few other things will automatically be taken to be leather when we look at them but especially in miniature they don't look like that material for sure.
The only way to sell a coloured item as leather would be to show some wear, where the wear reveals a natural leather colour here and there, but this is harder to do in a very small scale and it's requires a certain style of paintjob too which might not be what you want.
So if you like a clean, even bright and cartoony, paintjob just paint things as you like and don't worry about the materials they're made from so much. Only with a highly-realistic style do we need to concentrate on this.
Einion
