Reply To: Help with Painting Black

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I on the other hand try to limit colours I use while painting black. I usually use black and one highlight colour which varies depending on the material I paint and environmental light. I also use as simple technics as possible.

Some examples for you.

1.      Black undercoat, white zenithal highlight, white drybrush, thick black wash/glaze. I believe this method is more suitable for reflective materials.

 

2.      Armour (on his back) – black basecoat, highlights with sky blue (Valeyo) – just layers of mixtures of black and blue up to edge-highlight of pure sky blue,

T-shirt – black basecoat, some highlights of mixture of black and dwarf’s skin and finally black glaze

3.      I get best results with oils (just due to how easy blending is with oils).

Armour – simply lamp black with white edge highlight (blended in),

Coat – lamp black with drop of magenta with white highlights.

Recently I also experiment with chromatic black (by mixing all primaries or dark green with purple, again highlighted with white), it gives cool effects, but unfortunately I have no pictures that I could show).