Hi all!
After this long pause, that I hope you have used to make some progress on the miniature
, let's start again with the course's next step: the boots and the cape.
As I said, I was looking for a beige shade for the boots that worked with the trousers. In order to get it, I decided to use these colors:
From left to right, Leviathan Purple ink, Basic Skintone, English Uniform, Burnt Cadmiun Red and Prussian Blue. With these colors, I composed a palette:
Base tone: English Uniform
Shadows: English Uniform + mix of Burnt Cadmiun Red and Prussian Blue
Highlights: English Uniform + Basic skintone
Final wash with Leviathan Purple ink.
When you add a purplish tone for shadowing English Uniform, you get a nice deep shadows that work with the overall shade, as these tones complement each other well. When you apply highlights with Basic Skintone, you soften the greenish tone inherent to the English Uniform and get some highlights avoiding a tone too yellowish.
Base coat:
Next, an overall wash with the first shadows tone, to define volumes:
Let's mark a bit more the shadows with a darker tone:
First highlight with English Uniform and a bit of Basic skintone:
Now, I apply even deeper shadows that I also use to outline some endings and the boots' laces:
Some touches on them with the first highlight and a very subtle wash with Leviathan Purple ink:
Some highlights adding Basic skintone:
And it's done. As you can see, the final result goes very well with the trousers tone. That's important:
Let's paint the cape. For it, I thought on a rough fabric, a cloth purely functional with no decorative purpose at all. Keeping that in mind, I prepare the color palette:
In the lower row is the basic colour palete of the cape. For the base coat y used a mix of Scorched Brown (Citadel) with Black, to get shadowed with pure black and highlighted with Scorched Brown in the first place and Scorched Brown + Orange Brown after that.
In the upper row, are the tones I'll use to shade and “give texture” to the cape. From left to right, Scorched Brown with Basic skintone, Khaki, pure Basic Skintonee, English Uniform and Prussian Blue. With the first three, I will add some tones and textures mostly in the highlight areas. With English Uniform, I will add some dirt and wear, and the Prussian Blue will add some deepness to the shadows.
Basecoat:
After painting the basecoat, the white shirt gets even more prominent. First highlight with pure Scorched Brown:
Second highlight. You have to focus mostly on the upper areas:
Third highlight, adding more Orange brown and starting the texture work:
We start appliying the shades tones in subtle dots with the brush tip. First, we work the hood:
Let´s keep on working. We mark some small flaws to add richness to the area:
Don't forget the shadow tones that will add deepness to the zone:
And the final result:
It just needs a touch of matt varnish, but I'll do that when everything is finished.
More in two weeks!
FeR