Black and white! (Patreon)

My friends, the pre-shading is finished. This is the so-called Black and White Technique developed by Jose Luis Lopez.

It has quite a lot of applications, and it's basically the same method as figure painting, just adapted to armor.

I'd say it's excellent for single color base coats and for people who are not very confident with mixing their own colors for post-shading. Here you're just working with black and white, so the process is very straightforward.

There are some additional steps that can be employed such as a black pin wash, stains of dirt painted with black acrylic, light chips painted with white, etc. but I find these a bit redundant as some of them would've been repeated twice, such as the wash.

Anyway, I'll let the paints cure for a few hours and then apply the oxide primer!