Another Approach to blending

[Lukas-L]

Heyho,

I just wrote a tutorial on Blending, but couldnt post it on cmon (dont know why) so i´ll post it here:

"What is a blending?

A Blending is the connection between 2 colors.

Examples in everyday life:

If you look at any Object surrounding you, you´ll notice that they have not one color but many. Even the black objects aren´t plain black. There are various variations of black.

Why are there blendings?

There are basically two options:

-The object just has more colors, for example a washed-out jeans or stones.

-There is light and shadow.

Where do i blend?

-Every object/surface is either in light or in shadow or in between, which means you have to blend.

Just decide from where the light comes (in everyday life it´s the sun coming from above), sometimes you will have a torch, magical things or dusk/dawn.

-Now if you clench your fist, you will see the color changing although its still the same light coming from wherever it is.

This means: Beside the light/shadow on your miniature, every object/surface has another blending depending on its form or shape.

How do I blend?

There are a lot of ways on how to create a blending and even more tutorials, I will just cover the general things.

If you look at a blending, you will find a lot of colorvariations in it. In a blending from white to green, theres every tone from white to green. ( pro-tip : Use the colorfinding tools in your favorite graphicprogram to see how much there really is )

-You can create a blending by just painting every tone between the two colors.

-The second option is to create the blending by using less tones, thinner colors and a whole lot of layers of those tones. Since color gets lucent by adding water to it, you can see all the layers ( or at least a lot ), which creates a blending.

-Or you create the blending on the miniature itself, painting it in one color, and while it is still wet, you just mix another color into it, which creates the tones between the colors aswell.

From here on there are a lot of tutorials describing the differnt ways of blending and techniques to get it done. The best way to learn it is to watch someone doing it."