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Behind the Scenes #8
🕑 Added 2018-09-12 21:31:09 +0000 UTC What up, mini family?!This week I worked on making a video about the process of trying to replicate a "forge fresh" weapon. Something like this:
A nice bright glow, a subtle blend to a dark grey matte metal, and lots of scale flaking off.
I started with a blend like this, but it wasn't enough orange and yellowy orange tones, so I started to work some of those colors in:
I liked this color distribution more, so I decided to move on to adding the scale.
This is kind of every mini painters worst fear. Creating a nice gradient and then ruining it with some effect you don't know how to pull off. At first, my scales had lines that were too thick, and not erratic enough. I messed around a lot with the thin width, the randomness, the size of each flake and came to this:
Does it look like it's out of the forge? I don't know, but it looks kind of cool!
Shooting this video was kind of a nightmare. At first, I wanted to shoot my monologue sequences while I was painting the miniature, so you could experience the process first hand, but due to a number of inconveniences, I ended up doing a half-assed version of this. Being unhappy with the outcome of my explanations, I fell back to my old process of writing a script, but I didn't shoot the script on my typical backdrop, I changed up the scenery to make it feel more dynamic. Sadly, when I recorded it this 2nd time, my wireless LAV had this nasty feedback totally ruining the audio meaning I need to do this a 3rd time. Stuff like this really sucks and slows down the process a lot. At this point in the week I need to still re-record the monologue portion and edit the whole video still. Ugh.
Hope y'all are not struggling as much with technology as I am this week!
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I don't think at any point the metal becomes translucent. The one thing I kept in mind when I was placing my colors was how thick is the metal and how central is it. The thicker, and more central it is the longer it takes to heat up, and the longer it takes to cool down because it's more insulated. The edge of the axe gets thicker and the part near the handle is central, so that's why I chose to make them the brightest!
Stuart Taylor
Hi, comparing the real life photo to your painting, have you got the light and dark the wrong way round. On the real life painting you can see that the metal goes white/translucent and then very dark at the extremes??????
Thank you for the feedback, Stefan! Keep it coming :)
Stefan Podell
It looks super cool! Somehow with the chips in the side of the blade and the brush strokes, it looks a little like a glowing hot coal of wood. Comparing to your inspiration photo, it seems maybe like it needs more white-hot areas, and smaller transitional areas to red. (OMG, I can't believe I'm trying to give *you* advice...) And it seems more "glowy" in the penultimate picture, without the additional shading. If those areas were glowing hot, they'd be emitting light and show less shadow, no? Bonus: if the blade gets bent IT'S BECAUSE IT JUST CAME OUT OF THE FORGE!!!
Quite possibly! That's a good idea.
Looks great! Would some crackle medium or Agrellan Earth give the right scales/flakes?
