New techniques.

[Panza]

I just gotta say that i\'ve been painting for nearly 20 years and I thought i\'d got the hang of it untill I saw some of the stuff on this site.

Some of the new techniques, like single source lighting and Object source lighting are making me wanna pick up a brush and try something different.

One question though. Lets say I was trying to paint metal with non metallic colours (I think this is the sky earth metal technique) and I was trying to get a really nice polished chrome finish. How would I then incorporate object sourced lighting and make it look good from more than one angle? Any suggestions?

I\'m gonna post my first picture tomorrow (unfinished base but I need the feedback) but untill then, happy painting.

Panza.

 

[Panza]

Don\'t all speak at once!

 

[Flashman14]

the only way NMM would look good (and realistic) from every angle is to assume that the light source is directly overhead.

Right??

 

[abstracity]

My thoughts...

The sky earth NMM technique often looks peculiar from different angles...

Here\'s my suggestion....

Make the sun/moon directly opposite the lit object, then you don\'t have to sweat figuring out how to put two bright spots in your NMM AND it leaves you free to experiment with dawn lighting and whatnot depending on where your lit object is...

Of course it will look odd in a group of figures not painted the same way...but them\'s the breaks...

 

[Panza]

Recently posted my first figure on which I tried to pull off a strong overhead lightsource, but it would have definitly benefitted from NMM\'s. I agree that it\'d be hard to put bright spots in the correct places.....but wouldn\'t it look cool!

 

[Soothand]

Panza,
I\'ve found that with NMM and Earth/Sky metal the trick is to think of the figure as a flat. In a photo the E/S metal looks really good but when you look at it in person, it starts to look wierd. Same with NMM. Unless it\'s done very well it kinda looks odd. Problem is, unless your doing NMM here, your points suffer greatly. Ah well, I\'ll stick to mettalics for now.
Good luck and good painting!