This week we're going to be looking at the cloak. To start with I
want to look at an early photo of the miniature so we can see how the
zenithal prime gave us quite a nice contrast on the cloak. I decided
to use white and black and various shades in between to tidy this up
and then apply the colour after.
And here is the cloak after I tidied up the black/white. You might ask
why I'm using this technique rather than just painting purple, then shading
and highlighting as normal? Well, I hadn't tried it before and wanted
to give it a go. Best way to improve is to get yourself out of your
comfort zone and widen your skills.
I then thinned down some Naggaroth Night to glaze consistency and
used several layers (letting each fully dry, I used a hairdryer to
speed things up) to add the colour.
This left me with a nice transition but I decided I wanted to go a
little lighter so I glazed some purple mixed with a little white into
the highest parts.
For the back of the cloak I wanted it black so I again used black and
white to work on the contrast of the folds. Here we can see I've made
the highlights far too strong so it doesn't look right but I'll fix
that in a bit.
Next up I decided to work on the bone horns. I used P3 Menoth White
base and highlight along with some Vallejo Tank Brown to create the
transition from dark to light, then adding in black for the very
tips.
The fur cloak on his shoulders was done with similar colours, I used
some brown and black washes and just played around until I got the
look I wanted. You can also see at this point how I toned down the
highlights on the cloak using mid tone glazes, it looks far more
believable now.
Coming along nicely, I'm really happy with the colours I have so far. As always post any constructive criticism or questions in the comments below!
