OK. An attempt to translate the article I wrote for our website:
http://haekel.free.fr/First, the clothes:
- base: Dark Sea blue (Vallejo=VA)
- shadows by adding to the base Germ. cam. black brown (VA)
- highlights by adding to the base Pale blue grey (VA)
Now, it's time to see how the secondary light could work. I apply the base colour on the beard, the face and the magic ball.
- for the skin: Elf Flesh + Dwarf Flesh
- for the beard: Pale blue grey
- for the ball: Green blue VA
It's gonna be difficult
I apply on the skin a wash of Magenta Ink + Chestnut Ink + Dwarf Flesh. Then I use Shadow Grey and Hull Red to deepen the shadows. For the highlights, I use the base mix, then pure Elf Flesh, then Bleached Bone.
For the ball, I add more and more white to the basic colour, and I underline the shadows with very thinned washes of Turquoise Hawk.
The lower part of the face and the sleeve are slightly highlighted with Space Wolves Grey and a mix of Blue green + white.
For the white beard, I simply cover it with a wash of Codex Grey, then Avaggdu Earth (A rackham Colour, you can use an alternative brown, such as Flat Earth VA). And I rework the beard with Pale Blue Grey, then white, then slight touches (I'm not sure this is English
) of pale blue for the reflects of the magic ball.
For the leather and the staff, here are my colours:
- leather: Germ. cam. black brown (VA), then Hull Red (VA), then Pale blue grey
- wood: Hammerfall Khali (Privateer Press Paint), Thornwood Green (P3 too), Violet Brown (VA) and Menoth White Highlight (P3). Some washes of Catachan Green and Snakebite Leather to finish.
Again, I re-work the effects of the secondary light with blue tones:
No wizard without hat!
I've chosen a dark red to recall the colours I used on my Ironbreakers.
- base: Black red (VA) + Sanguine Base (P3)
- shadows with Black Red + Dark sea blue
- higlights with Sanguine Base + Sanguine highlight (P3) + Khador Red (P3), then Dwarf Flesh. Again, some blue reflects are added to take into account the effects of the magic ball.
That's it!
Edited by Jaeckel, 05 October 2008 - 10:39 AM.
