Painting guides, tips, tricks

[CroWarGamePainting]

So I really have a hard time finding a good guide for glow effect, combined with power weapons to get the maximum out of them. I looked a lot on most guides really suck. Some of them don't have the pic available anymore, or they are just sloppy where you don't understand much or the technique is just meh, nothing special. Saw some really epic work and I am just interested to learn. Started painting 2 months ago and would like to know some stuff that I personally find that I am bad at. Faces suck for me also, and other things since I just started but glow is something I really really would love to learn. Please tell me any good tutorials that you know of that can be useful for me at this stage. Check some stuff I did and tell me what do you think I should work on and add a link or something to that technique. Thanks a lot guys, I really found a lot of epic work here and would love to boost my skills also or brush up my skills

 

[MAXXxxx]

- funnily WarhammerTV has a few videos on OSL (the glow effect) that are pretty good compared to the effort put in.

- I could also suggest MiniatureMentor's video from Alfonso Giraldez (both for faces and osl).
- Look at Painting Buddha's YT channel. Some that are useful here: Shieldmaiden videos (face), Millenium Falcon (osl),
- JBT Dvd and the Figone book from him are both great resource
- altough I hate his style (both painting and presentation), but NextLevelPainting on YT has some OSL videos
- I think maybe Ghool from here also has some tutorials on his channel. When not about OSL, about faces for sure.

- Massivevoodoo articles are always great (massivevoodoo.blogspot.com)
- good tutorial collecting site: tutofig.com

- best face imo: search for the "HUSH!" tutorial from Giganticdark (Chris Clayton), also look at his Space Marine tutorial.

And to be honest the OSL is really simple in idea:
- your source if the lightest color possible (often white, but anything goes as long as the rest of the figure is darker)
- you need to lighten the parts that are really visible from the source (finding the correct places is what makes if believable or what destroys the illusion)
- as you go further from the source the color used should go both darker and more transparent (less on the surface)

using only the 3 points above 2 of my tries :
- https://photos.app.goo.gl/xjgfoM2E50YdhU313 (skin was supposed to be dark-greyish one, not a normal skin color)

- https://photos.app.goo.gl/oB6tF54GMP5hGDlC2

 

[CroWarGamePainting]

- funnily WarhammerTV has a few videos on OSL (the glow effect) that are pretty good compared to the effort put in.

- I could also suggest MiniatureMentor's video from Alfonso Giraldez (both for faces and osl).
- Look at Painting Buddha's YT channel. Some that are useful here: Shieldmaiden videos (face), Millenium Falcon (osl),
- JBT Dvd and the Figone book from him are both great resource
- altough I hate his style (both painting and presentation), but NextLevelPainting on YT has some OSL videos
- I think maybe Ghool from here also has some tutorials on his channel. When not about OSL, about faces for sure.

- Massivevoodoo articles are always great (massivevoodoo.blogspot.com)
- good tutorial collecting site: tutofig.com

- best face imo: search for the "HUSH!" tutorial from Giganticdark (Chris Clayton), also look at his Space Marine tutorial.

And to be honest the OSL is really simple in idea:
- your source if the lightest color possible (often white, but anything goes as long as the rest of the figure is darker)
- you need to lighten the parts that are really visible from the source (finding the correct places is what makes if believable or what destroys the illusion)
- as you go further from the source the color used should go both darker and more transparent (less on the surface)

using only the 3 points above 2 of my tries :
- https://photos.app.goo.gl/xjgfoM2E50YdhU313 (skin was supposed to be dark-greyish one, not a normal skin color)

- https://photos.app.goo.gl/oB6tF54GMP5hGDlC2

Thanks, man that's a lot of info. Will need some time to check it all now, but at least will keep me busy XD
Wow, love it. That girl with the lantern is fucking awesome, the glow is really really good. Now that's what I am looking for

 

[Zab]

Lots of osl tricks in these posts on my blog:
https://almostperftec.blogspot.ca/search?q=osl
some very dirt simple but effective like one glaze of a fluro paint on/around some marines lenses and others like Ahsoka Tano that were more effort to prep the areas than they were to apply the effect but without the prep it wouldn't have been so convincing. Keep it simple at first and learn the difference between a wash and a glaze as that will determine how good the effect is