Behind the Scenes #8 (Patreon)

This week I worked on making a video about the process of trying to replicate a "forge fresh" weapon. Something like this:

A nice bright glow, a subtle blend to a dark grey matte metal, and lots of scale flaking off. 

I started with a blend like this, but it wasn't enough orange and yellowy orange tones, so I started to work some of those colors in:

I liked this color distribution more, so I decided to move on to adding the scale. 

This is kind of every mini painters worst fear. Creating a nice gradient and then ruining it with some effect you don't know how to pull off. At first, my scales had lines that were too thick, and not erratic enough. I messed around a lot with the thin width, the randomness, the size of each flake and came to this:

Does it look like it's out of the forge? I don't know, but it looks kind of cool! 

Shooting this video was kind of a nightmare. At first, I wanted to shoot my monologue sequences while I was painting the miniature, so you could experience the process first hand, but due to a number of inconveniences,  I ended up doing a half-assed version of this. Being unhappy with the outcome of my explanations, I fell back to my old process of writing a script, but I didn't shoot the script on my typical backdrop, I changed up the scenery to make it feel more dynamic. Sadly, when I recorded it this 2nd time, my wireless LAV had this nasty feedback totally ruining the audio meaning I need to do this a 3rd time. Stuff like this really sucks and slows down the process a lot. At this point in the week I need to still re-record the monologue portion and edit the whole video still. Ugh. 

Hope y'all are not struggling as much with technology as I am this week! 

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