Frog
03-01-2007, 02:00 PM
I keep seeing people say add black to shade a colour. Why is this ? When I am hairystick painting I dont evan have black in my palete.
If I was attempting blood (hairystick) I would brobably underpaint in green and then glaze with red, this gives a very vibrants red. Or I would paint the red and then shade with glaze of transparent green. (simplified description).
My thoughts would be to do shading and basic structure building with green then candy red over until you get the desired depth.
Or mix red/green (black but not a "dead" black) do the basics adding more and more red this I THINK would give a more lively colour.
I have never done this with AB I am still mainly doing mono, so I may be talking out my backend.
I am not criticising how people paint I am genuinly interested in how I should move to colour later on, wether I should stick to what I know (no black) and use complimentarys or if in the custom industry using black works because the colours are more vibrant and so it works.
Michael
If I was attempting blood (hairystick) I would brobably underpaint in green and then glaze with red, this gives a very vibrants red. Or I would paint the red and then shade with glaze of transparent green. (simplified description).
My thoughts would be to do shading and basic structure building with green then candy red over until you get the desired depth.
Or mix red/green (black but not a "dead" black) do the basics adding more and more red this I THINK would give a more lively colour.
I have never done this with AB I am still mainly doing mono, so I may be talking out my backend.
I am not criticising how people paint I am genuinly interested in how I should move to colour later on, wether I should stick to what I know (no black) and use complimentarys or if in the custom industry using black works because the colours are more vibrant and so it works.
Michael