Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Red Cloak Painting Guide

Here is my tutorial for red robes. Perhaps slightly trickier to follow since they weren't painted in a particularly regular way, but i'l sure try my best to explain.

First was a base coat of Mephiston Red, i applied two thinned coats.
After this I shaded with red and purple washes, and then made my own wash from a black and red mix which i applied into the recesses.




















Next i thinned some paints with mater and lahmian medium to be a bit more concentrated than a regular glaze i'd use. I glazed the robes in highlight areas back up to mephiston red, and then up to a mix of wazzadakka and mephiston red.




















I mix Lugganath orange with a small amount of  wazzadakke red,  and then do a fast and not too accurate edge highlight on all edges.
























I then glaze wazzadakka red, then wild rider red over the exposed highlight areas, whilst on the shadow's edge highlight i glaze the black and mephiston red mix.
I continue these layers until the edge highlight blends into the other colours on the model.
I then re-apply a thin and controlled edge highlight on the sharpest edges of the glazed area.
Bellow is a model where this step has been applied to the bottom half only.





















The end result being red robes like this:





















2 comments:

  1. Excellent use of glazes to blend the highlights. The end result is very smooth and really sharp. Thanks for the tutorial!

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  2. Thank you for posting this. My Word Bearers thank you. Plenty of experimentation in the days ahead :)

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