if you have clicked on this video
congratulations you are gonna learn how
to paint glow effect like this
or this and you are gonna learn in just
under five minutes so let's do this
okay so the idea for this video came up
when I posted this photo on my instagram
and as far as you can see quite many
people liked it and asked me how to do
this
now I have done this in just 30 minutes
and honestly it was just an experiment
anyway the recipe is quite simple and if
I had to describe it in just one
sentence you paint the whole light
source with white
and glaze over it with whatever paint
you want most likely some blue orange
pink or green
but but for it to look really good you
have to go a little further than that so
let's start with painting the light
source with pure white paint
now if I'm not painting my sons of the
phoenix space marines I usually start
off with black spray so as you can
already guess it will take you multiple
white layers to cover the light source
properly and while each individual layer
cannot be super thick
otherwise you will get miniature like
this it cannot be super thin transparent
layer either I cannot really tell you
how much water you should add to your
paint since every paint brand will need
a different amount
but it should take you about three
layers so just aim for that when you get
a nicely covered source of the glow it
is time to think about what is the
single brightest spot on this light
source in a case of this marvel crisis
protocol Hela miniature the whole orb
thing
or whatever that thing is is the source
of light and as such the middle part
should be the brightest
and you should leave it mostly white in a
case of the plasma weapon for warhammer
it should make sense for the light
source to be inside of the gun
and as such we will treat bottom of the
coils as the light source
of course you might treat the top of the
plasma coils as the light source
and you should get results like this but
I guess it depends if the weapon is
prepared to fire or not
but I don't know either way once you
know what is the brightest spot on your
light source you should glaze all of
your layers towards it
there is no definite consensus whether
you should start off with dark glazes or
light ones instead
but honestly you will have to go back
and forth between the two
anyway I am starting off here really
dark with glaze of Khorne red
once again I do not have exact ratio of
paint and water
but if you are not sure apply thinner
layer and wait for it to dry
and apply another one over that it is
way better to proceed slowly here
once I got it I can take Vallejo model
color vermillion red
or any other quite vibrant red paint and
apply another glaze aiming towards the
light source
since it is something between glaze and
wash I let it spill over the recesses
here
since that is where the light source is
in fact the recess itself
is the light source with pure vermillion
red I have covered still quite broad
surface but now I will progressively add
ivory to the paint
and cover less and less surface with
really controlled glazes
of course the more ivory you add the less
surface you will cover
with the center of the light source
being the brightest
if you are not sure whether any part is
too dark or too bright
you can simply take a picture and apply
black and white filter over that
if you are still not happy with what you
get decide which part should be brighter
or darker
and apply thin glaze of corresponding
paint over such spot
now getting back to Hela you can see
that the same applies here the center of
the light source is
really bright and light and the further
you go
the darker it gets okay we got the light
source itself BUT WAIT,
there is more to really sell the glow
effect you need some additional
reflections
so what we are gonna do here is that all
around the light source we are gonna
paint some more
dim light now don't pick the brightest
paint that you have since only the light
source should be as bright
but you should pick some of the
mid-tones for the plasma you should
mostly use pure vermilion red and you
might combine it with a little bit of
corn red for the darker parts
and just a little tiny bit of ivory for
the parts
that are near the light source I am
taking this vermilion red with corn red
and just lightly glazing all the area
that is supposed to be exposed to the
light source
mainly the shoulder pad and the area
around the plasma coils
the closer I get to the plasma coils the
lighter the paint I use
is use here even thinner glazes since
you want to build up this dim light
without having any hard separation in
the case of Hela from marvel crisis
protocol
I use mainly Moot green combined with
dark green
and combined with white for those parts
that are really exposed to the light
source
keep in mind that in every case the
edges should be exposed to the light
source the most
so you can almost highlight them with
the brightest layer that you have
dedicated for the dim light
but once again be reminded that this
layer has to be less intense than the
light source itself
okay so I think that this covers it
before I go I just want to mention that
it is way
easier to build up this dim light on
darker surfaces
or at the very least for me it is and
that is because i find it much more
easier to build there some nice volume
for example on pure white surface I find
it really difficult to build up
and I don't even mention that you are
gonna have a hard time creating contrast
between the white and the light source
okay
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