Dec 19, 2007

[Robot Painting 3] Weathering

The 'weathering' means a process of artificially wearing and coloring the robot surface in order to create the physical disintegration or chemical decomposition that occurs as a result of exposure to wind, rain, humidity, etc. This is probably the most interesting and profoundest part in the painting processes. That's because you can always create your own version of weathering with your imagination. Besides, it doesn't need any expensive tools; the most popular one is pastel. Just scrape it off with a knife to make pastel powder, and rub it over the surface where weathering needs, that's all.


How graphically it will be described depends on your power of observation. The more characteristics and colors you can find in real weathered objects, the more chances you make it look real.
In the chest below, I've created dust and oil stain on the surface with light gray and dark gray pastel. Also, I've made a burn with black, gray, brown, and orange color.


In addition, I've ground every edges of a body part with a nail file to create some wearing marks, and also given outlines of dust around them with dark gray and brown.

Likewise, I've given various weathering effects from rust to bullet mark to the other parts of the robot body and the armor.





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