unintentionally the two colors i chose to mix my mid-tones caused her face to look very purple as opposed to something more peach colored like human skin tone often is this likely happened because the maroon color i chose wasn't really maroon at all but something closer to a purple and possibly a bit colder of a hue for the eyes a critical step is to perfectly set up the whites of the eye and then destroy that work so you can do it again for more practice obviously i wanted to experiment with a light blue iris color when you're looking closely at the mini this color reads but the farther away you get the more it blends in with the white of the eye i need to do more experimentation with lighter eye colors but this initial test is pretty interesting when viewed up close after the skin i moved on to the non-metallic metal gold i chose gold because the yellow in it would offer up interesting hue contrast compared with the purple skin tone that i accidentally ended up with just like with the skin i'm starting from a dark base coat and working my way up if you like to understand the motivation for why and where i placed my highlights when painting a subject like this check out the video i've linked in the top right hand corner of the screen it's going to be much more thorough than i can be in this video or if you want to catch my paint sessions live i'm often on twitch on fridays from NUMBER_TOKEN pm cst to NUMBER_TOKEN pm csd in fact i'm live right now if you're watching this video soon after it's released so once you're done here you can come watch me fail to keep a mini in focus and in frame for roughly three hours it's a lot of fun and sometimes i have friends join me during the stream a long time ago i painted a fully non-metallic metal gold elf and got some feedback that i'm applying here that i want to share with you from rafaela garcia marin which is a very fun name to say for a dumb american he told me that an important part of gold is the yellow which is so obvious i feel stupid for missing it my earlier attempts resulted in something that looked closer to brass to make sure i was getting adequate levels of yellow in my gold i used a mid-tone that was fairly rich in saturation and also glazed the final tone with a yellow and red ink mixed together to produce a warm yellow color this combined with some crispy recessed shading and some brighter spectral highlights and i achieved probably my most convincing non-metallic metal gold effect to date before moving on to the scale male let's hear a brief word from today's sponsor which is me new to the merch store are three limited edition posters that feature currents and old designs to maniac merch the two smaller posters are letterpress printed by a local friend of mine on cougar white smooth NUMBER_TOKEN pound paper and the final larger poster is a screen print on french pop tone black licorice NUMBER_TOKEN pound paper there are NUMBER_TOKEN copies of each and when is sold out they are gone forever additionally the printer created three unique posters that were a combination of both letter press printed designs because they had some leftover ink i'll also sign the backs of these because i'm famous
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN which is me new to the merch store are three limited edition posters that feature currents and old designs to maniac merch the two smaller posters are letterpress printed by a local friend of mine on cougar white smooth NUMBER_TOKEN pound paper and the final larger poster is a screen print on french pop tone black licorice NUMBER_TOKEN pound paper there are NUMBER_TOKEN copies of each and when is sold out they are gone forever additionally the printer created three unique posters that were a combination of both letter press printed designs because they had some leftover ink i'll also sign the backs of these because i'm famous END_SPONSOR_TOKEN