Painting the D&D: Purple Worm Part 3

July 23, 2013 by elromanozo

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Time for the next stage of painting the Purple Worm from Gale Force Nine. We've all seen the ground work being lain down for this mighty paint job but in this part we really see the miniature pop and come to life.

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thargard

12 years ago

Hi Romain

Great video as ever. I was wondering if the washes you use throughout the worm are they just paint + water or do you use a medium?

Cheers and btw, great tattoo:)

elromanozo

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Reply to thargard

12 years ago

Thanks for the kind words !

No medium here, just water, even when wet blending. I’m not stopping you from putting medium in your mixes if you want to, or if you need more time to work your blending (it’s perfectly all right, even for experts), but don’t put too much or it’ll take forever and a day to dry.

The tattoos are still expanding, by the way 😉

obsidian3d

12 years ago

Another great series of videos. I might be giving the wet blending a go on some of the larger Reaper Bones figures. It looks great here.

elromanozo

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Reply to obsidian3d

12 years ago

Thanks ! That’s the idea.
Happy painting ! 🙂

bernohn

12 years ago

Great videos the three!
Hope to see more from you Romain!
B.

elromanozo

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Reply to bernohn

12 years ago

Thanks b !

thargard

12 years ago

Hi again Romain!

Thank you for the reply. I asked about the medium because both GW (lahmian medium) and Vallejo both have mediums for washes in their ranges and I was thinking about giving them a go.

Oh…I just remebered: why not a video detailing the diferences between Wash, Glaze etc.? I don’t think you have ever done one these (I could, of course be wrong).

Any chance of a full pic of the tattoo? I’m going to start learning the art very soon and i’ve found yours to be great 🙂

Cheers and once again Thank you!

elromanozo

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Reply to thargard

12 years ago

Thanks for your keen interest !

I’ve answered that question about washes and glazes before, but never in a video.

A wash is a mix of paint diluted with either water, medium, or an even more surfactant product. The purpose of this dilution, in a wash, is for the pigments to slip into the crevices of the miniature, thus achieving a kind of shading. The wash is usually to be applied in the creases or the miniature, on a single surface (trusting the pigments to shade that surface in its nooks and crannies) or all over the miniature (in which case the product is often called a “dip”).

In the old days, some people used a drop of dishwashing soap in their rinsing water just to make teh paint more surfactant… I don’t know if it works, i think it’s entirely superfluous and could only lead to endangering your brushes.

A glaze is also dilute paint, but it’s generally done with water only, as it aims NOT to be surfactant. It usually contains less paint than a wash. With your brush, you will gently apply the glaze evenly on a surface so that it is tinted by a translucent “veil” of paint : the pigments should not necessarily go in the creases, but be applied regularly.

This is why the glaze is usually applies carefully, over small surfaces, repeatedly, and with higher dilution : the more water, the quicker it dries.

To achieve gradients, it is thus possible to use successive glazes on smaller and smaller surfaces, pushing the paint towards where you want the maximum concentration of pigments, making that area less and less transparent and more and more pigmented.

That is, of course, the theory…

In practice, a wash often also has the effects of a glaze, and is used as such, and vice-versa. Painters use successive glazes in selective places for shadowing, and they use washes to both shade the crevices of an area and tint all of its surface.

I suggest you don’t worry too much about what’s a glaze and what’s a wash, as long as you know what effect you want to achieve and what would work best to do so.

As for my tattoos, they’re not quite finished… but if it may help you become a good artist, there you go.