Welcome back to another Game Face Nation Studio Workshop Tutorial!
Today we're talking about highlighting black areas of your high level or unique miniatures with a technique that provides a wonderfully smooth gradient and finished product. We're talking Glazes.
This technique is very similar in approach to painting with layers. The difference is that glazes take a longer time to establish, but the end result is a very smooth transition between the basecoat and the highlight. Start out with your normal dark or charcoal gray color, and thin it down till it's almost transparent or colored water. It will take some time for you to get a feel for how transparent you prefer it to be, so be patient with this technique. Remove the excess paint from the brush by touching the tip of your brush to a paper towel. Then start applying your glaze to the miniature by starting the brush stroke where you want the darkest part of the mini to be and ending your stroke where you want the brightest part to be. This motion, mixed with the very thin paint, will draw most of the pigment in your paint towards the end of your brush stroke. Once you've established a good looking first layer gradient, start with your next lightest gray and do the same thing but start the brush stroke farther up towards where you want the brightest point to be. Repeat this until you're happy with the brightness of your highlight.
Keep an eye out for our next video releasing on April 7th. In that video we'll be covering how to paint a black miniature using washes that already has it's own built in guides for highlights!
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Until Next time, get your Game Face on!