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Jezebel-Noe In reply to wash-away [2013-05-10 16:14:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh, and I forgot to mention...when you use pastels you'll have to seal the figure with a varnish or you will rub off the pastels and spread the stuff on the whole kit -.- I paint my kits with water-based acrylics and I use a varnish from Hobbyline. I've only had good experiences with it and I use matt varnish and sometimes semi-gloss varnish.

But be careful, when using the varnish the shades come out quite stronger and a little bit darker.

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Jezebel-Noe In reply to wash-away [2013-05-10 16:01:58 +0000 UTC]

Hi wash-away ^^
I use soft pastel-colors/pastel chalks (I hope it's the correct word in English) for shading. I apply several thin layers of DRY pastel chalk with a brush or a Q-tip, till the opacity suits me just fine. Sometimes I also use my forefinger, if the parts a big enough, of course ^^ I use soft brushes and bristle brushes, but I prefer the soft ones or a Q-tip, cause they didn't tend to scratch the painted surface of the parts.

I use these chalks [link] and these [link]

I hope I could help ^^

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wash-away In reply to Jezebel-Noe [2013-05-11 06:47:06 +0000 UTC]

that's really cool! do you use water or alcohol as a medium?

when I use weathering powders [link] I mixed it with water and cover the entire model. then I use a Qtip and water to remove most of it so my models look dirty and worn.

[link]

I can do this ^ but it's not very clean. How do you get it so the pastels are in such specific area's?

hope my English is readable

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Jezebel-Noe In reply to wash-away [2013-05-11 08:03:28 +0000 UTC]

For using the pastel chalk I don't use any medium. Just scratch a bit of powder of the chalk and apply the dry powder on the parts.

I know those weathering powders ^^ I found them at my regular art-supplier. But I didn't buy or use them by now, cause I haven't kits that need weathering treatment so far But it looks great on your Decimator. Looks exactly like rust.

I think for applying such weathering effects your powder is better. I use my pastels only in folds or on deeper areas of the parts. For smaller areas I use soft brushes with small tips or a Qtip with a compressed tip. But I doubt you'll manage to apply the dry pastel powder on such small figure parts as yours. The problem is, that you have to "paint" several thin layers and that can be really difficult in very small areas. Or you'll have to mix the pastel powder with water and apply it with a small brush. But that's somehow the same process as when you're using your weathering powders, I think.

And your English is readable ^^ I'm not a native English speaker, either. I come from Germany

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wash-away In reply to Jezebel-Noe [2013-05-13 05:02:31 +0000 UTC]

Do you have any tutorials, or any you've used to teach yourself how to do paint with pastels that way?

I found this a while back for horses that's totally pigments.
[link]

If it's any help, this is where I keep all my tutorials.
[link]

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad they came out so busted up and beaten

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Jezebel-Noe In reply to acidraw [2013-05-08 16:09:00 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your comment, pal ^^ I'm quite satisfied with how she turned out And I really struggled with those eyes -.- Took almost 2 hours!

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Jezebel-Noe In reply to Shoko-Cosplay [2013-05-08 16:07:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks hon The skin tone is a mixture (1:1:1) of Pale Flesh, Basic Skintone and White from Model Color (Vallejo).
Actually her hair is painted in plain white, it's the basic colour. I simply shaded the hair-ends with different violet-coloured pastels ^^ The kit came with some metal chains, but I changed them for some others that look more like silver. The original ones looked quite dirty and dark -.-

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