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Description
Check out the Exercise and Download the Practice Sheet HERE
Artist : Joe Chico

Sometimes creature designs call for things to get a bit slimey, gooey and down right messy. With this exercise our goal is to understand how we can paint slime!
There are several different ways to render out slime so feel free to take your own references! Go out and create slime from borax and elmer’s glue! Crack open a few eggs! Or just take a bit of shower body wash gel and snap a picture or two! If you can get your hands on a physical resource and play around with it the better you’ll understand that slime can come in all shapes, densities, colors, and sizes! Caution: Mess may be created during the process of creating slime. Majority of “slime” is often not hard, but instead “melty” and gravity usually creates it’s new form. Study how gravity can affect slime on a surface, for instance if it hanging off something. The great thing about studying slime is that it’s in between a solid and a liquid. Along with it being translucent, it can appear to be a challenging material to understand.

– TIPS
Create your own References!
Remember that the center of slime is usually more dense and opaque than thin strips and the outer ridges. As represented by the soft green color on the practice sheet.
Since slime is often times reflective, be aware of the reflection of light in the room and keep it consistent.
Don’t be afraid to use multiple / screen / overlay layers when working with slime, it will come in handy when working with objects that are underneath the slime as well!

Description
Check out the Exercise and Download the Practice Sheet HERE
Artist : Joe Chico

Sometimes creature designs call for things to get a bit slimey, gooey and down right messy. With this exercise our goal is to understand how we can paint slime!
There are several different ways to render out slime so feel free to take your own references! Go out and create slime from borax and elmer’s glue! Crack open a few eggs! Or just take a bit of shower body wash gel and snap a picture or two! If you can get your hands on a physical resource and play around with it the better you’ll understand that slime can come in all shapes, densities, colors, and sizes! Caution: Mess may be created during the process of creating slime. Majority of “slime” is often not hard, but instead “melty” and gravity usually creates it’s new form. Study how gravity can affect slime on a surface, for instance if it hanging off something. The great thing about studying slime is that it’s in between a solid and a liquid. Along with it being translucent, it can appear to be a challenging material to understand.

– TIPS
Create your own References!
Remember that the center of slime is usually more dense and opaque than thin strips and the outer ridges. As represented by the soft green color on the practice sheet.
Since slime is often times reflective, be aware of the reflection of light in the room and keep it consistent.
Don’t be afraid to use multiple / screen / overlay layers when working with slime, it will come in handy when working with objects that are underneath the slime as well!