Hey Darren, I came on TH-cam for some inspiration and I gotta say you delivered! I had watched parts 1 thru 6 thus far and there are two things I really LOVED in your tutorial. (1)The part where you accidentally smudged the "dark" paint right on the newly painted face and your "scrolling verbal reaction"......HYSTERICAL!!!!! I'm pretty sure ANYONE of us that watch can identify....I know I sure can! (2...and this part I LOVED) The section where you mixed a "Light Blue and Dark Grey" (I think) and used this combo to give the male "beard" effect......I wouldn't have thought of that in a million years!!! So subtle and yet it gave the face a "richness" and color value that bumped the look up by ten!!!! I'm self taught and am definitely going to "steal" that tip and use it whenever I can!!!!! Thanks for the inspiration. Now I've gotta check out your TH-cam page and most likely subscribe! See ya there....Cheers Buddy!
+dnai777 wow, what an amazing complment... thanks for all those kind words! (very kind!!) - steal as many tips as you like ;) - I'll be posting lots more videos starting in a week or so... so hopefully there'll be more ideas you can steal. Thanks once again!!
I love watching you work. Everything is perfect. I was wondering if you sprayed some kind of sealer between colors? As you go do you seal it with a varnish so you still have what you did before you start more shading? I use matt spray after painting a color before I start shading or highlighting. Just wondered if you did? Maybe that's a better way of saying it...sorry. Thanks so much for sharing your talent. Love it!!
+mike breazeale Thanks Mike! Thats so kind of you! I don't spray any sealer between colours no. I just paint the whole thing and then when I'm done I spray it first with gloss varnish, and then a matt DullCote layer. Then I go back and gloss the eyes.
+Darren Carnall - bringing your collectibles to life .... Very good Darren. I will try that. I have been spraying a matt coat layer in-between and will wait till the end. Thanks again and I look forward to your next video. I hope your having a great week!
amazing! are you painting it on a resin cast? how can a resin cast have so much details in skin textures?!? you can see the pores and what not. did you cast it on a specific resin?
If you make a silicone rubber mould of something then cast it in resin, the resin will be pretty much an exact replica of the original item! All the details and everything :)
Thanks. You do treat it like a painting , though? I thought you would paint ist in basically one Flesh tone and the light in the room would make it look like the endless Color variations? You basically follow the Same Procedure like in an Oil painting? Do you start with muted colors or Intensity of no concern ?
Yeah start with a basic layer of 'tanned flesh' is what my paint is called, and then on top of that add on dozens of layers of different colours, shades, highlights, shadows, details and all kinds. Some regularly painted on, some thin washes, some dry brushed, some flicked on by flicking bristles, some dabbed on with my finger... all kinds!
Do you consider different temperatures by the colors or by the actual light Shining on the heads? Example: Kirk on an ice planet. It Looks to me as if this Head leans to the warm side
Interesting. I think for 1/6 scale figures I would just paint them to be accurate to the person themselves... and maybe change the lighting on my display if I wanted it to look colder for an ice planet etc... but it could certainly be done with paint. You would just be limited them to only ever displaying him as if he was on an ice planet. But yeah... you could make some things look warmer or colder if you really wanted to.
Amazing,brilliant and masterful work but this music was absolutely horrendously hideous beyond a doubt! I rather hear your voice or talking than listen to this garbage music.....
+mrfrogbutt1 I'm starting to make new videos from this week onwards (hundreds of them, like maybe even daily) and they'll all be just me talking while I work! ;)
Hey Darren, I came on TH-cam for some inspiration and I gotta say you delivered! I had watched parts 1 thru 6 thus far and there are two things I really LOVED in your tutorial. (1)The part where you accidentally smudged the "dark" paint right on the newly painted face and your "scrolling verbal reaction"......HYSTERICAL!!!!! I'm pretty sure ANYONE of us that watch can identify....I know I sure can! (2...and this part I LOVED) The section where you mixed a "Light Blue and Dark Grey" (I think) and used this combo to give the male "beard" effect......I wouldn't have thought of that in a million years!!! So subtle and yet it gave the face a "richness" and color value that bumped the look up by ten!!!! I'm self taught and am definitely going to "steal" that tip and use it whenever I can!!!!! Thanks for the inspiration. Now I've gotta check out your TH-cam page and most likely subscribe! See ya there....Cheers Buddy!
+dnai777 wow, what an amazing complment... thanks for all those kind words! (very kind!!) - steal as many tips as you like ;) - I'll be posting lots more videos starting in a week or so... so hopefully there'll be more ideas you can steal. Thanks once again!!
I loved the entire series Darren! Thanks for taking the effort to put this up.
More respect and a bigger fan now. :D
thanks Aakash!
I love watching you work. Everything is perfect. I was wondering if you sprayed some kind of sealer between colors? As you go do you seal it with a varnish so you still have what you did before you start more shading? I use matt spray after painting a color before I start shading or highlighting. Just wondered if you did? Maybe that's a better way of saying it...sorry. Thanks so much for sharing your talent. Love it!!
+mike breazeale Thanks Mike! Thats so kind of you! I don't spray any sealer between colours no. I just paint the whole thing and then when I'm done I spray it first with gloss varnish, and then a matt DullCote layer. Then I go back and gloss the eyes.
+Darren Carnall - bringing your collectibles to life .... Very good Darren. I will try that. I have been spraying a matt coat layer in-between and will wait till the end. Thanks again and I look forward to your next video. I hope your having a great week!
amazing! are you painting it on a resin cast? how can a resin cast have so much details in skin textures?!? you can see the pores and what not. did you cast it on a specific resin?
If you make a silicone rubber mould of something then cast it in resin, the resin will be pretty much an exact replica of the original item! All the details and everything :)
Hey. Great work. Did the skin pores and the scar left from the mouth exist before the paintjob or did you paint those on to the cast?
Thanks! yeah those details were on the sculpt already, I just enhanced them with paint :)
Thanks. You do treat it like a painting , though?
I thought you would paint ist in basically one Flesh tone and the light in the room would make it look like the endless Color variations?
You basically follow the Same Procedure like in an Oil painting?
Do you start with muted colors or Intensity of no concern ?
Yeah start with a basic layer of 'tanned flesh' is what my paint is called, and then on top of that add on dozens of layers of different colours, shades, highlights, shadows, details and all kinds. Some regularly painted on, some thin washes, some dry brushed, some flicked on by flicking bristles, some dabbed on with my finger... all kinds!
Do you consider different temperatures by the colors or by the actual light Shining on the heads?
Example: Kirk on an ice planet.
It Looks to me as if this Head leans to the warm side
Interesting. I think for 1/6 scale figures I would just paint them to be accurate to the person themselves... and maybe change the lighting on my display if I wanted it to look colder for an ice planet etc... but it could certainly be done with paint. You would just be limited them to only ever displaying him as if he was on an ice planet. But yeah... you could make some things look warmer or colder if you really wanted to.
Amazing,brilliant and masterful work but this music was absolutely horrendously hideous beyond a doubt! I rather hear your voice or talking than listen to this garbage music.....
+mrfrogbutt1 I'm starting to make new videos from this week onwards (hundreds of them, like maybe even daily) and they'll all be just me talking while I work! ;)