How To Paint METAL (and every other material)
A video on YouTube. In Art & Drawing, a Krater category.
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This video teaches digital painting techniques for rendering metal and dielectric materials by analyzing how they reflect light. The creator demonstrates how to paint smooth and rough metals as well as dielectrics like skin using reflection principles in Photoshop and Blender.
From the video
Answers: How do you paint metal and dielectric materials in digital art?
- Painting metal surfaces
- Rendering dielectric materials
- Specular vs diffuse reflection
- Surface roughness in digital art
- Highlight placement in painting
What it concludes
- Metal is a purely reflective material that has no local color and only reflects its environment.
- Dielectric materials have both specular reflection and local color caused by subsurface scattering and light absorption.
- Higher surface roughness on an object causes light to scatter, resulting in diffused reflections and softer highlights.
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