/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>6728042
Aah thanks anon.

I usually get three or four colors of acrylics. Thick acrylic pigments are really nice and you don't have to continuously layering the paint on. My recommendation for that is Folk Art Brand acrylic paints which you can find at nearly every Hobby store in the US.

I tend to use a thick, wide, middle size brush for watercoloring and acrylic based painting. If you can, also grab some of the cheaper walmart like brushes that you can sacrifice.

With the good brush, use the middle orange and paint your horns completely orange. Let them dry completely and add a few more coats on it till it's completely covered in just the orange. After that, you're going to want to take your cheaper brushes and dab just a hair of paint on to the tips. If you get more, get some cardboard and dab it on the surface till the bristles kind of fan out with the bare minimum of paint on them. Card board absorbs any kind of moisture.

With the dry brushing, you'll work from tip and end with the yellow and darker orange. Start at your tip with the yellow and slowly drag the brush down. Once you do that, make small circular motions to help add a consistent flow of color. By doing this though, you're going to end up fanning out and making your brushes really dead, so I usually opt for the walmart ones and use the better brushes for my straight line painting.

You'll want to continue blending for a good while and gradually add more and more of the brighter/darker colors to the tips and ends of the horns. If you feel you got too much, dab away the wetness with a paper towel and eve then that creates some good gradient and textures if you want to test out that method, too.

Pic related. They're smooth and I tend to like carving up horns I use for myself but I painted them with the way mentioned above!

I hope that was helpful in some way!