Easy weathering with watercolor pencils - Weathering pencil painting techniques - (Japanese Edition)
Easy Weathering with Watercolor Pencils - Weathering Pencil Painting Techniques" is a book that thoroughly explains how to use weathering pencils, which are attracting attention as a new expression method in model making. This book carefully introduces the actual usage method with step-by-step process photos and detailed explanations while touching on the structure and characteristics of weathering pencils. It covers both dry and wet techniques and proposes weathering techniques that can be applied to models of all genres, from tanks and airplanes to ships, dioramas, and even character models. You will learn how to easily and precisely reproduce realistic effects such as dirt, rust, peeling paint, and dust. In addition, through examples created by top modelers, you will realize the expanding possibilities of expression using weathering pencils. In
particular, the book is packed with visual explanations with photos, making it easy for beginners and advanced users to intuitively understand and immediately incorporate into their own projects. The appeal of this book is that it allows you to freely control delicate expressions that were difficult to achieve with conventional techniques, such as drawing fine scratches, expressing metal, and reproducing the texture of wood and cloth.
This book is a must-have for those who want to make their models more realistic and impressive. By mastering the use of weathering pencils, you can add even more depth and realism to your work.
1. Introduction
• Pencil manufacturing process
• Wood that encases the core Wooden slats Wooden shaft
• Characteristics and features
• Watercolor pencils in modeling
• Application methods and techniques for modeling
• Frequently asked questions about watercolor pencils2
2. Specific uses of colored pencils
• Recreating metal with graphite pencils
• Chalk marks and stencils
• White is the best for washing
• Painting rust
3. Painting moss and mold
• Painting oil, fuel and grease
• Chipping on wood
• Peeling paint and scratches
• Painting dirt
• Recreating raindrop stains
• Painting panel lines
• Highlighting parts and details
• Painting dust3
4. Examples of colored pencil painting
• Expressing rust on railcars
• Painting winter camouflage
• Perfect reproduction of a rusty fuel drum
• Expressing rusty metal plates
• Panel lines on air models
• Weathering drop tanks and bombs
• Dirt and effects on air models
• Chipping on air models
• Recreating dirt and chipping effects on fighter planes that appear in SCI-FI
• Using colored pencils for figure painting
By ModelArt