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Erynis- chapter 3- painting the rough leather cape

Added 2021-10-27 07:52:22 +0000 UTC

Hi Folks,

here is the next video of Erynis from Inu Kingdoms.

It´s a rather short but very informative video of how to tackle the rough leather cape.

We want to create a look as if the leather would consist of two layers, the harder, darker, and more glossy top surface the Papilarry layer, and the lighter, softer appearing the underlying Reticular layer.

If you paint material like worn leather there are many different approaches, one of the main differences is the initial decision if you want to start light or dark.

or the leather cape, I have decided to go with a light base color and add the dark patches later. The texture that is sculpted on is very fine, it´s almost a little too fine, to just get away with washing or drybrushing the surface. As some of the smaller cracks are so tiny, that it could be hard trying to exactly hit them with the brush. By starting with the lighter base color we simply need to add the comparatively larger patches of the darker top layer of the leather.

As the sculpted texture is so fine we can also paint a large part of it freehand up to our liking. I wanted to create a look that bridges between the look of the sculpted on texture and the material-feel and looks from the concept art, that´s why I have painted the patches a little rounded.