NMM Gold Tutorial

NMM Gold Tutorial http://bb.bbboy.net/deepspace-viewthread?forum=6&thread=1236 Powered By BbBoard - http://bb.bbboy.net Urb 04:02:07 Sun Jun 8 2008 NMM Gold Tutorial As promised here's the way I do NMM gold. Please keep in mind there is no right or wrong way for any technique so use whatever works for you. Essentially NMM is just like painting any other surface other than the way light reflects off metal. To help perceive the right reflection it helps to have metal objects like a spoon or a knife to look at. There are plenty of good NMM examples on the net as well. Step 1: Palette. Starting from the left Skull white Skull White/Golden Yellow Golden Yellow/Snakebite Leather Vomit Brown Snakebite Leather Snakebite Leather/Chaos Black Scorched Brown

Other than Scorched Brown which is 50/50 paint to water I thin all the other colours 1 part paint to 5 parts water. Depending on how smooth you want your blends you may or may not want to use more or less water. 1 part paint to 2 parts water is a good place to start when just trying it out. *Note* You can try using a lighter yellow like Sunburst Yellow for a brighter and clean looking gold.

Step 2: Prime Black

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There are endless discussions whether to use black or white as an undercoat. I use either depending on how bright the colour scheme is. For this example I use black.

Step 3: Scorched Brown Base coat of Scorched Brown.

Step 4: Snakebite Leather.

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You don't have to get a bright Snakebite Leather base, just an even shade.

Step 5: Golden Yellow/Snakebite Leather Trying to keep to where I want the lighter colours to show I go over the areas with Golden Yellow/Snakebite Leather mix. I do about 10 or so layers but it doesn't take long.

Step 6: Vomit Brown

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Using Vomit Brown I further lighten up the area I did with previous step while trying to leave a little bit of the Golden Yellow/Snakebite Leather showing. Poorly executed on my part in this instance but shows that even though it looks bad now it'll come out in the end, hopefully.

Step 7: Skull White/Golden Yellow Here come some big payoffs. As before I go over the area trying to leave some of the previous colour showing. If I was neat and tidy this could be my final step but for me there are always clean up steps after.

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Step 8: Clean up Using the Snakebite Leather/Chaos Black mix I go over the darkest areas first. I tend to reduce this mix even further. Something like 1 part paint to 20 parts water. That way when I make a mistake it's not as noticeable. I'll do a lot of glazing with my intermediate colours in between darkest areas and the lightest. You'll have to experiment to get a feel for the look you want. To finish it off I run Skull White along the raised edges and any where else I think it should be shinny.

That's pretty much it. I'm still working at improving my NMM and probably will be as long as I paint. I recommend everyone at least try NMM of some sort if they haven't already. It'll help your focus on the light source, your blending, and highlighting and shading. The_Yaoitzer Re: NMM Gold Tutorial sick tutorial Urb, thanks a lot 06:00:10 Sun Jun 8 2008 Zphindar 12:44:28 Sun Jun 8 2008 Starks333 14:33:21 Sun Re: NMM Gold Tutorial Thanks Urb... seems simple enough... coul we see the other side of the gold bar? Im always curious about that because you never see the other angle, would help me figure out how to do it. Re: NMM Gold Tutorial depending on whether or not you are doing an "all over" light source or not...the easiest way to do the spots in shadows(since obviously without

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Jun 8 2008

light metal doesnt reflect as much) is to mix in blues or glaze blues over, it will appear in shadow, have contrast, while not being as bright...you could also use purple(maybe) or green

Urb 20:47:24 Sun Jun 8 2008

Re: NMM Gold Tutorial Zphindar, in this example I didn't finish off the back of the gold bar. Here's where NMM gets a bit tricky. As starks was indicating it really depends on the light source. If the light source follows the model all around then I would just pick and angle and paint it ignoring what I did on the other side. In this case I would've mirrored the left and the right. I'm not very good with my reflections so your guess would be as good as mine.

Joyous_Oblivion Re: NMM Gold Tutorial 07:00:03 Mon Nice Urb, very nice Jun 9 2008 I think i'll stick to line highlights and washes for now, leave this 'godlike' painting to you and Starks Spanky_100 Re: NMM Gold Tutorial I'm definitely going to try it! 11:36:18 Mon Jun 9 2008 Can we get a tutorial on source lighting... Mentor 16:46:23 Mon Jun 9 2008 Re: NMM Gold Tutorial Urb, This is an excellent tutorial. Cheers! The finish is very striking. I hope there are more lessons where this came from. All the best, - Mike Urb 19:40:36 Tue Jun 10 2008 Re: NMM Gold Tutorial There's already a great tutorial on this by Mentor pinned in this thread under "techniques, Mentor Style ". A very good place to start for anyone wanting to increase thier skills. Quote: Spanky_100 at 11:36:18 Mon Jun 9 2008 I'm definitely going to try it! Can we get a tutorial on source lighting...

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03:37:31 Fri Thanks a bunch, Urb! I'm going to try this for sure. Jun 13 2008

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