Airbrush Technique Issue 23 - (Page 19) Next is to detail, shade and darken up with a thick and thin mixture of black. The thicker mix will be used for the heavier darker areas and the thinner black to be used for the tiny detailed crevices and the under shadows, also areas that need more of a gradual build for shading. The thinned black is perfect for this. Once I’m comfortable with the way the details and the shading looks like, I start in with some color. I like the monochromatic look so even though that suggests a single color I blend in another, with in the same spectrum, to give it more depth. The colors I will be using are reduced and thinned blue and purple transparent colors. I start with blue because the prescript glasses that he wears are normally blue. I also work in some blue in selected areas slowly building them up. Then I begin to use purple and start to work that in also where I feel it is needed and also building it up slowly but not real strong, reason to have the colors reduced and thin. I want to give it eeriness but leaving it a little pale, almost a zombie look, so the color doesn’t completely take it over.
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