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In this step I also blended in a little black to darken some areas of the Eshin Grey even more. IвЂ™m not looking for perfection here either, just something thatвЂ™s a good tabletop quality. ItвЂ™s just thin layers of paint over and over until IвЂ™m happy. Now I lay down a more solid coat of the lightest grey and things are looking like I want.ДЄt this point I spend some time blending the transitionsВ to smooth them out. I then work my mid-tone color ( Administratum Grey) to start some messy blends on that darkest grey. Next I start smoothing out the darkest areas to get a solid color there. ItвЂ™s important for this to work that the darkest areas are next to the lightest areas вЂ“ thatвЂ™s NMM. The dark grey is Eshin Grey and the lightest grey is Grey Seer. I want to make sure my transitions are going to look right before I commit to blending it all out. It looks messy at this point and thatвЂ™s fine. I just find itвЂ™s way easier for what IвЂ™m doing. I drop in the dark shadowed areas and the lightest areas. I like to start by sketching the colors where I feel they should go. The fun part of NMM is that you have complete control over the color palette, so just experiment and have fun. Also, I could use browns for shading as well to give it an earthy and dirty look.

I could use blue-greys for highlights if I wanted something shinier.

I want something dark and gritty, not super bright and shiny. IвЂ™ll be focusing on keeping everything relatively grey on this instead of going into more pure colors for a vibrant weapon. IвЂ™m going to quickly paint this choppa (sword). If you continue down youвЂ™ll see the steps explained with images. Immediately below is the quick version of painting NMM.

This is for those who want to start learning NMM, get the basics of NMM, or just learn some shortcuts for NMM. This isnвЂ™t a tutorial to teach you the absolute most perfect blends for creating a vibrant, eye-catching NMM. Sorry for the preface here but I just wanted to be clear with what this is. I want something that looks like I painted, has my style, and doesnвЂ™t look like something everyone else is doing. My approach is faster, uses some tricks, and gets results that I enjoy. I wonвЂ™t spend hours blending a single blade edge on a sword or blending out some OSL work so the transition is seamless. This has led me to a very dark and gritty style of painting. IвЂ™m not sure why this is, as itвЂ™s very counter to my personality, but itвЂ™s there. While I enjoy painting, I can reach a point of frustration where things arenвЂ™t going as quickly as IвЂ™d like. ThereвЂ™s a lot of techniques that I enjoy, namely blending, where I donвЂ™t want to spend a great deal of time doing it. The commission earned helps maintain this site. You can pull it off with traditional metallics but itвЂ™s much, much harder to control and have the camera capture your work.Дisclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.

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These are all things you have full control over when you paint NMM. It makes everything youвЂ™ll see below make more sense.Д¬redit to that above axe you can see how the painter reflected nearby elements onto the surface, used cool blue tones to reflect the sky, and used warmer tones below for the ground. If youвЂ™re looking to learn how NMM works, and I suggest you do, then do check this out. Kujo explains the basics, shows how light reflects of different surfaces, and gives examples.

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Kujo Painting has a great video that goes over how to highlight NMM and covers in more detail the things I was just discussing. IвЂ™ll share with you a video that started me down this road. If you wanted to paint a battered and worn metal then you wouldnвЂ™t create as strong of a contrast. Metals that are less reflective wonвЂ™t have as extreme of a contrast.

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This can be very tricky to learn, and IвЂ™m admittedly not a pro here, but the concept is simple. Metal will jump from very bright to very dark with little to no transition.ДЄnother thing to consider is that light will skip across a reflective surface and create multiple highlights. The trick with creating the contrast is in putting your lightest colors next to your darkest colors. Where metal catches light it will shine very bright, often to a white, and where there is no light the metal will be very dark, nearly black. To create the look of metal thereвЂ™s one trick вЂ“ contrast. Credit goes to Shelley Hanna Fine Art for this image.