>>96043627>they just came out so dullVibrancy is mostly about contrast (not the gw paint brand, but the concept of contrast) and paint quality. A bright red looks brighter next to a dark blue for example. You can get more vibrancy from the same paint by using contrasting colours for shades and highlights instead of using black for all your shadows. But there are two caveats. Craft paints can be kind of dull because they have less pigment (or poorly dispersed pigment) compared to art paint or good mini paint, so a craft paint will not look quite as vibrant as an equivalent art paint when used with identical techniques. The second is that slapchop and similar techniques inherently involve putting the same semi-transparent coat over a large section, meaning you also dampen colour contrast in your shaded areas.
>>96042636Slapchop is used about all kinds of underpainting now, but the guy who made the term specifically just had black primer, gray drybrush, gw contrast paint. Then the term went viral (in our niche) and all the YT guys started using the term in a much broader sense. Your recipe looks like it'd be fun and easy for a beginner, and better than slapchop. But I disagree that it's either slapchop or grisaille, it's "just" underpainting and stippling (and that's good!). If you want to be really technical your first steps is a brunaille which is really just french for brown, so I prefer to call it an underpainting in browns.
OP, look up drybrushing for either technique here, it's key to basically all the speed techniques that don't look like shit in my opinion.
