WIP Iberian Warrior

[jknaus]

Do any of you guys have any thoughts on how to paint a fox fur cloak? I am doing the 75mm Iberian Warrior and was wondering about making his cloak red fox fur. Oil or acrylic I'll try whatever, I just dont really know how to get started on this colour scheme. Any help gratefully appreciated.
James

 

[jimias]

Hello James. As a matter of fact i ve never tried a fox fur before, but whenever i wanna try something different i find it very helpfull to find some photos on google of the real thing. From what i can imagine the basic color should have burnt sienna and an orange closer to red than yellow. Shadows with a darker brown and highlights with napples yellow. This comes out of my mind so give it a try on a piece of paper first. Hope that helps a bit!
Regards.

 

[Major_Goose]

I would go with a base of Burnt Sienna bit of burnt umber and some orange brown

Shadows with burnt cadmium red and burnt umber mix in the base

and

lights with orange brown with bits of Andrea Golden Ochre

I hope it helps

Costas

P.S. I have painted red hair figures in a similiar way and worked very good

 

[jknaus]

Thanks guys. I went looking for some colours from your suggestions that I didnt have. Not much luck, I did find some colours that I think will work.
Yellow ochre
brown madder
cadmium orange
indian red.

I'll experiment and post some pics. Right now I am experimenting with white.

Thanks for the help.

PS I think the face is my best yet (still beginnerish, but better)

James

 

[jknaus]

Iberian Warrior WIP

Well this is what I got got done so far.

Comments appreciated.

Ohh and the pic I was working off of.

 

[housecarl]

James, I would say that you need to go darker and slightly more red. That way you can build it up to a lighter reddish colour.
Carl.

 

[davidmitchell]

Hi James the colour you have got looks OK, but I would start much darker and use it at the end for the final highlights.


Cheers David

 

[jknaus]

I'll have a try again with some shadowing.
James

 

[Mark Yungblut]

I'd let it cure and give it several med. washed of indian red 50/50 with yellow ochre. Give it a first wash then go back and wash shadow areas a second or third time. Then you can go back and drybrush in the highlights.

Cheers,

Mark

 

[pkess]

For furs to look "alive" in miniature, you need fairly bright highlights. For oils, I would use the Cadmium colors (red, orange, yellow.) to highlight the fox fur. In larger scales, I used to add a very small quantity of mica or metallic powders to the final highlights. This gives the "sparkle" you see in real fur.
The biggest advice is do not try to paint individual hairs. Instead, try to paint plane changes in the sculpted texture. Working from photographs or a real piece of fur is the way to go.

 

[jknaus]

I'd let it cure and give it several med. washed of indian red 50/50 with yellow ochre. Give it a first wash then go back and wash shadow areas a second or third time. Then you can go back and drybrush in the highlights.

Cheers,

Mark

Okay I did a wash as suggested. It looks very dark. Tonight with any luck I will do a dry brush of the original colour and see what it looks like.

James