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As I have shown you before, I usually lay in the darks first. The background will be very dark with some of the underpainting showing through. The rocks are dark, and I have concentrated on the shadow side of the rock.

In reading some of the literature from Atelier Chroma Interactive, they suggest using some of your existing paints for the underpainting. So I used Old Holland Acrylics for this stage. The colors are Indiago, Caput Mortuum Violet (Mars), and Daniel Smith Indanthrone Blue. These are all very dark colors. I do not like to use Black at this time, as it does not have the depth of color that other colors do.