New techniques and glazing

[MattCrawford]

sup B&C

 

I've been trying out new painting techniques to improve the quality of my figurines and generally make my new World Eaters look bad ass (something certainly lacking from my Iron Warriors army). One that particularly struck me was this "glaze 'n' glaze again" tutorial for Huron Blackheart here: http://dragonpainting.net/viewtopic.php?f=...313&start=0.

 

What's been happening is that, despite pretty meticulous efforts, I've run into a few problems:

 

1) Rather than get a smooth transition from a dark to light, almost white, red color, it ends up looking pretty blotchy despite my best efforts at repeatedly glazing in between steps. A few layers of Baal Red wash seem to work, but it looks pretty ugly up close.

 

2) Besides being blotchy, the highlight area always seems a bit to wide. Though the recipie calls for you to thin out your paints, I find this just makes the paint run over where I want it to stop. Do I need a smaller brush, or is there another step I'm missing here?

 

Thanks in advance! Will post pics if needed.

[winterdyne]

You have too much paint on your brush. Touch it on a piece of tissue (napkin type / non fibrous - ie not toilet roll) to soak off excess - takes a bit of practice, but you'll see the difference - you're wanting to spread the paint on thinly, not let it flood onto the surface. Stroke the paint in the direction of intensity of the colour (ie towards where you want the colour to be strongest). Then rinse your brush, wick off the excess water and use the moist brush to carry on working the gradient.