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Realistic Bluegill And Craw Patterns

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Does anyone know the process on making patterns like these with createx paints? They are awesome and don't look that complicated.

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Saw someone on youtube painting a dt like this a while back but can't find the link or remember how I searched for it.

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=260925395198&index=1&nav=SEARCH&nid=30928309319

Something like a curve stencil... Spray, dry, move to new section? Idk. Thx.

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Thanks for the replies. I've been on here at least 100 times and never even noticed the hardbait cookbook. Lol. I've been doing this the hard way. I've never thinned anything and am just now learning to spray sharp and then dull or give a bait a wash. Lots of fun though. Great site.

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Thanks for the replies. I've been on here at least 100 times and never even noticed the hardbait cookbook. Lol. I've been doing this the hard way. I've never thinned anything and am just now learning to spray sharp and then dull or give a bait a wash. Lots of fun though. Great site.

Talk about funny. I saw it and never opened it. Just assumed it was what it said it was "a cookbook", (recipes for cooking fish to eat). LOL

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Carver thats not bad at all...just have to practice practice practice. One thing to practice is to look past all the surface colors and see what underneath. Also, almost all of the time something isn't one color, there a combination of colors. For example the markings on my bait are a combination of several different colors, one over top the other using thin washes. And then you add the shimmers that are always present in a fish. Find some good photos on the internet blow them up to where you can still see the detail and just study them. I've spent hours on end just studying close ups of fish. Its actually alot of fun and you can practice your color mixes on paper until you find the right mix. Hope this helps you some...and thanks to all for you compliments!

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Thanks for the tips fishnart. I've been experimenting with washes on a bluegill and finally got to something I'm happy with. Not like a photo but excentuates the markings for a crankbait reaction color while being natural with a gold irradecence whick doesn't come across in pics no matter how I try with or without fash on this blackberry.

This last one is where I ended up on craw patterns. Chartruse or green craw with rootbeer fade.

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Carver thats not bad at all...just have to practice practice practice. One thing to practice is to look past all the surface colors and see what underneath. Also, almost all of the time something isn't one color, there a combination of colors. For example the markings on my bait are a combination of several different colors, one over top the other using thin washes. And then you add the shimmers that are always present in a fish. Find some good photos on the internet blow them up to where you can still see the detail and just study them. I've spent hours on end just studying close ups of fish. Its actually alot of fun and you can practice your color mixes on paper until you find the right mix. Hope this helps you some...and thanks to all for you compliments!

When you say "thin washes" are you referring to spraying that spot with a very lite coat then same area dif color lite coat again???

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Carver,

The craw pattern wears me out at times. I hate stencils and free handing them is a task. Thank god for markers and paint brushes. Your patterns are pretty sharp though. Keep up the good work! Some of my best lures start with one idea, a mistake and then a fix that takes a whole different direction.

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