Lots of experiments today. Some went well. Some went more educationally. Started with robots, primed black, then a soft grey drybrush. Came in with some white on the base, a crackle medium, and black. Then I very delicately and almost successfully got some white airbrushing with more intensity at the bottom and less at the top, followed by a straight up acrylic ink.
So the ink is fantastic and vibrant and uh. Very. Very pigmented. As inks are. There were a couple points- thankfully while I was painting legs- where a little more pressure than I meant to apply dumped a WHOLE LOT of green real fast. In retrospect if I’m using ink I’m not sure I really need to undercoat with white. It started wiping out my black, which is, like… this is the first time I’ve used inks except in a wash and I knew intellectually they hit hard but my goodness I didn’t really think it was possible. But it was, and now I know more than I did before! Super handy, since I plan to do another OSL robot project shortly.
I started to get the hang of sharply decreasing intensity as distance from the source (ground) increased, and by the time I got to Mister Beefcake on the right I had things dialed in enough it was starting to read like a glow. Still lots to learn, but let me tell you; after struggling with half a dozen models trying to fuckin’ glaze OSL, this airbrush was worth every penny just for that.
Anyway, they need some touchups and I think I’m going to do some bright lenses without OSL, Terminator- style, for the eyes and then call these done. Just wanted to show how happy I am to have grunted out 6 or 8 relatively “glowing” OSL effects with an airbrush in like, fifteen minutes.
