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Old 08-01-2010, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Soala View Post
Silver textures or anything that is supposed to be some sort of metal should never be gray only. Your shading lacks a lot of contrast too.

I'm not the best one at silver and metal stuff either, but I often use medium gray-blue and some very light gray-purple here and there.
Here's an example palette that you could use to improve your shading, and to show you what I mean:
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While the general advice is valid, I think your suggested palette is very bad. You shouldn't be afraid of contrast or saturation. Let the metal pieces have some more color!

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