| TUTORIALS | |
| TUTORIAL 6 - Painting metal | |
 I used Opencanvas to paint it, but any other painting software will work the same way. | |
| STEP 1 | |
 | Original image. Pencils by Popninja. Page from Awesome Storm Justice 41, issue 7. |
| STEP 2 | |
 | Usually most of the metals appear colored reflecting blues for the sky and brown for the ground, but think about the real surrounding colors before start painting. |
| STEP 3 | |
 | Basic metal coloring. |
| STEP 4 | |
 | Adding the black part (if the picture is inked you can avoid this step). |
| STEP 5 | |
 | Add the dark part of the reflection (the ground). |
| STEP 6 | |
 | Add light. Put the pure white just touching the blacks. |
| STEP 7 | |
 | Smudge and blur the white to make a gradient to the border of the blue metal. I used an new layer, add mode, using pure white to add the highlights. |
| STEP 8 | |
 | Add a small second light source to add more volume to the parts in shadows (the brown part). Basically, the metal is done :) |
| STEP 9 | |
 | Time
to add the surrounding light... this time there's fire arround the
character, so add a new layer, add mode and using red, paint over the
lights and a bit over the black part. If there's no fire, but you want
to make more powerfull shining, just use a bit of light blue instead of
red. Voila, shining metal :) |