How to highlight purple

This here is some old school paint layering in three steps.

Step one: prime black

Step two: base coat dark purple (I used Vallejo Model Color’s Royal Purple) but LEAVE the darkest recesses black

Step 3: highlight with lighter purple and leave some of the under purple showing in the recesses along with the black

For those who don’t have two shades of purple lying around, I can help.

To get my highlight color I mixed my royal purple with caucasian skin tone (I used Vallejo Model Color’s Flat Flesh)

You heard me right, I didn’t use pure white!

All credit to Youtuber Vince Venturella’s video exploring the color purple for giving me the idea to use a skin tone to mix my highlight. He breaks it down eloquently on a theory level in his demonstration but I can testify to it giving me results I like.

And here’s a bonus picture of a guardian I drybrushed with my purple highlight:

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