Mortal vs Marco
Step 11: Black Oil Pinline Wash
The staple of any Marco tutorial and, for some time now, a staple of my own process. Oil (or enamel) washes.
Unfortunately for me, only a pinwash here. I would have loved a heavier oil application as that is more in my comfort zone than what is to come after this, but this I can do.
That’s got it looking a little crisper.
So that leaves us here. Trying to find the closest comparison from Marco’s video, and this is about as close a comparison photo as I can get. Even compensating for the high contrast he runs on his camera, his is clearly deeper, richer and more contrasty than mine.
Now this brings us to a really important point about the challenge of following along with a tutorial such as this. Marco painted the model in 4 hours. This video is less than 30 mins long. Even allowing for a 2x speed up of the actual painting, there is a lot you don’t see.
”Sign up to my Patreon for every little line and brushstroke” is the sales pitch.
So it’s clear to me that I am missing steps that are creating this divergence between mine and his models.
Coupled with that, the next stages have Marco reaching for his infinite paint supply – a supply that I am less motivated to replicate:
So, it’s decision time, how to proceed?!
Buy £100 worth of heavy body acrylics and sign up for the Patreon to follow each brushstroke?
Or crack on my own way?
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