Sicarius WIP

[coffeegoer]

Hi all, i've been lurking non stop whilst not painting, i decided it was time to clean up my room and get my **** together! I never forgot how much i loved painting, but being the most time consuming thing to do, it suffers the most when other things come along!

This fella has been sitting there half painted for a while, but i decided to strip him and start again.
This was my first attempt at using glazes, ive tried it on the armour and i think its come out okay, im pretty sure i know what went wrong and what went right, and itll be down to practice. First miniature ive done in a longggg time, i intend on getting him FINISHED.

I want to do the cloak next, red, but im hoping somebody can help me with a good red recipe? And a good painting method for the cloak?
Should i glaze? Layer up from the darkest shade colour? Or wet blend? I think im very slowly getting the hang of these techniques, but im not sure which one would suit such a large area as the cloak?

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Any advice would be so greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
coffeegoer

[mahon]

Should i glaze? Layer up from the darkest shade colour? Or wet blend? I think im very slowly getting the hang of these techniques, but im not sure which one would suit such a large area as the cloak?

HELLO

there's no "ultimate' technique. what is good for one painter is the worst choice for another....
one painter loves wet blending, which another wouldn't use any technique but glazing...

you should try them and find the one you like best. others will be useful for other purposes. If you want a red cape, I would recommend either wetblending or layering (on a lighter base coat) to create the base for your transition and then smoothing it with glazes if it's necesaary. it's much faster than using glazes alone....

anyway - so far it looks very nice and I'll be happy to follow the progress

[Cyberpaddy66]

Great start and nice photography as well, care to share your set-up info?

[coffeegoer]

Hey hey thanks for the replies.
@ mahon it was your explanation on glazes that got me wanting to try it, eventually leading to me picking up the brushes again (ass licking aside!)
In the past ive always taken the darkest colour and layered up from there, but i did find that shading and highlighting from the base colour or mid tone is much easier. I may possibly try to wet blend, although it's been a while!

@cyberpaddy, i just used my painting lamp and made sure it had a light back ground. I used some olllllllld digital camera with some sub standard macro setting, there is a new camera knocking about the house somewhere, ill use that next time and see what results i get.

So can anybody give any suggestions with a red recipe? Im really stuck on it, ive used bestial brown/scab red/blood red before, but it didnt turn out so neat. Perhaps if i use this now i might get better results (it was a quite a while ago)

thanks again

coffeegoer

[arctica]

Well i like the progress so far it's promising

As for a red recipe, i generally use scorched brown and slowly add scab red to the mixture for progressive highlights then i will either add blood red for a richer colour or i will add bronzed flesh as a highlight (dependant on what sort of red im trying to achieve). I think the key to red is to add a colour which will give a smoother coverage for a base colour.

Unlike yourself i usually highlight up from the darkest shades rather then starting at a base colour. As a bit of advice i find if im pure glazing im more comfortable working from white or grey and shading with my glazes (which is kind of a contradiction to my usual preference).