Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
Guys, I took in account your advises about my Gabby D25. I redid it entirely to :
- make the panel lines more subtle.
- use a lighter green provided by Monk.
- blend the grey/green more smoothly.
Do you like it better this way?
Very nice............ I am learning all this the hard way.........
1) make a 1024 x 1024 16 mil master for every skin...........never reduce it..........always copy it to start new work then reduce that. That way you do not smudge rendering with consequetive size and colour enlargements/reductions.
2) Using the paint pot over a feathered selection with proper hue control is a lot easier than trying to get the colour fade right from scratch. (The rivit lines stay but do no stick out in a colour that is totally different to the panel colour.)
3) draw panel lines in 1 thick lines with antialiasing on.(1024 x 1024)
4) Exhaust and wheel dirt with a very opaque low density air brush making rapid sweeps over a feathered selected area.
5) add items in layers.............always (except for 2)
6) reduce size then colour............allow error defusion.............always use the same pallette.............
7) do not worry aboput blurred edges and colours.................no one is gong to see it from 10 feet away...
8) always blend colours rather than leaving sharpe jagged diagonals.........
