My Black Gold Wing

Aw, no everyone’s PYOs are awesome, and also yours SPark. I could never copy one of yours in your style any more than someone could copy my style. Well, not unless I taught classes…lol.
But sadly I have to say I don’t like how this one came out…it just didn’t match or outdo the image I had in my head.

Well, I’ll just stick to what I do best next time, lol, but trying something new doesn’t always turn out as planned.

He won’t be scrapped completely…I’ll just repaint a different model. This one I put on ebay so at least I get my PYO money back for another sculpt. This one was very dissappointing! I just suck at drybrushing I guess.

Basically, when you drybrush you only use a little bit of paint on your brush, and have to dap most of it off so it’s not as thick or wet as usual…and not get water on your brush! Then you very lightly brush the brush over the area and all of the 3D parts of the sculpture pop out with the color…it works great for highlighting, like on feathers (although not MY feathers). Ideally, what you drybrush should look more natural and wild, not smooth.

See, all of my sculptures until this piece have been done using paint on a wet brush, and then water and more paint to ease the blending process. This gets faster coverage and better blending, especially having all your paint colors available at once so you can swap between them and blend easier. Drybrushing you have to constantly load your brush and dab it to remove access paint, and can only paint over a small area before having to do it all over again. And you have to dry your brush well because switching colors. It’s a more time-consuming process which SHOULD yield realistic results. I have seen it done very well before with folks who haven’t even tried painting before in their lives! But alas, I’ve never really mastered this technique but thought I would give it a lagitimate go this time around.

I guess I should say it came out “ok” but as an artist I beat myself up over things that don’t come out as I envision.