More Steps on the NMM Journey
Channel: Frazzled Dad's Minis
Date: 2024-04-04

Non-Metallic Metal (NMM) is hard, hard, hard. But the only way to get better at something is to practice.

I used a bust from the Academics kickstarter to do work on steel NMM. I purposely narrowed my focus for this project to a few specific things.

Watch along and see how this might impact your own learning!

Links
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Music

Evert Zeevalkink - Outlaws Of The Old West
Twins Music - Autoreverse
Nick Petrov - Punchy Dance

- Contents of this video -

0:00 - Intro
2:42 - Setting Goals
3:36 - Choosing Colors
4:07 - Studying Lighting
5:04 - Initial Extremes
7:21 - Bringing in Midtones
9:36 - Check Your Work!
11:10 - The Terminator!
12:27 - Coloring the Dark Parts
14:11 - Working Transitions, Smoothing, Glazing
16:26 - Black Edge Highlighting  
17:56 - Outro and reveal

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