It all begins with base coat. The attention you put into starting off your model right will help to ensure that your next stages go smoothly and affectively.

By painting large areas of the model in a single color, you allow yourself to build in shadow and highlights in the next stages. These flat areas of color allow you to also go about using washes if you so wish.

As you go about adding shadows and highlights to you model, you’ll find that it starts to add more depth to the figure and allow it to stand out.

You’ll also find that these work best layered. Using thin coats, you can blend your shadows, flats, and highlights into one another.

Detailing allows you model to pop! By building up highlighted areas of the flat layer, you allow key parts of the model to stand out, drawing the viewers eye to the important parts of the figure.