Hi all,
Here now, is the Dagathonan Deep Caller for the Scaly Horde of DeepWars. This is a leader of semi-trained marine warbeasts, like Giant Anglerfish, using a sack of chum to get them to do "tricks" like dismembering the enemy.
The main shade of this figure is light green, so the base coat was done with Primary Yellow (Golden Fluid Acrylics). His chum sack of fish parts was given a couple of light washes of Pthalo Blue ink + black paint, mixed with Matte Medium. The small crystal was painted with thinned Cerulean Blue ink.
One the base coats were dry, the initial shading step was started. The hands, arms, belly, feet and face were given glazes of Indian Yellow paint + Burnt Sienna ink, mixed with Matte Medium. 2-3 glazes were applied to make sure it flowed into the cracks and crevices. The scales on the head, back, and upper legs were glazed with Sap Green ink, mixed with Matte Medium. The bone staff was given a glaze of Black paint + Burnt Umber ink + a lot of Matte Medium. It is essentially a grey-brown wash. The spiral shell tips were glazed with Burnt Umber ink. The loincloth was painted with a thin layer of olive green (Sap Green ink + Burn Umber + white), while straps, ropes and the conch horn were painted with Reaper Golden Highlight.
The second shading step added additional glazes of Burnt Sienna ink to the arms, adding more dark red paint down to the hands and fingers. More glazes or Burnt Sienna ink were added to the fins on the sides of the face also, while more Sap Green ink was glazed on the scales and legs. Similarly, glazes of black paint + Matte Medium were applied to the bone staff to darken it. Lastly, the small crab claws and tentacles were given base coats of light blue, purple and orange (Burnt Sienna).
Now, the shaded figure still looks pretty rough and sloppy. That's okay, since the highlights will make all of the shapes and detail come into view. Edge highlights were applied using Golden Highlight and and Primary Yellow paint, mixed with a bit of white for hotspots. The paint was kept thin (50% water) for most details, such as the highlights on the arms, and made thinner, more of a glaze, for the upper legs. Small dots of highlight were painted on the head to make the ridges and bumps stand out, while the scales were painted with highlights on the edges, not drybrushed. The hands were given more contrast with multiple glazes of red and Dioxazene purple ink, then highlighted on edges wo give them shape. The sack was lighly drybrushed with white paint, then had small edge highlights applied to the top of each square in the pattern. The sack was then glazed with black paint + Matte Medium to reduce the contrast from the drybrushing with white and to smooth out the roughness. The ridge fins were shaded between the "spines" with thin layers of black paint while the spines were highlighted with Golden Highlight + white. The staff was painted with thin lines of Golden Highlight along the grain to make it stand out a bit, then the spiral shells had a thinned highlight applied along the length . To finish those shells, fine white lines were painted along the top of each spiral ridge. The crystal was highlighted on the edges with pure white. The conch horn was glazed with Raw Sienna ink, shaded with thinned black paint, then highlighted with thinned white. Gold on the horn was painted with bright gold, then shaded with Burnt Umber, and highlighted with silver. The tentacles and crustaceans in the bait sack were highlighted with white and Golden Highlight, depending on their initial color. Some light glazes of Magenta ink were applied to the blue tentacles at the tip.
To top it all off, the base was done with washes of Pthalo Blue ink, mixed with a touch of black paint and about 50% Matte Medium. The stones used more Sap Green ink in the mix. When this was dry, light glazes of Magenta and Sap Green ink were applied in random sections. Highlights were done with white paint, applied at 50% strength to make lines on the rocks. Pure white dots were added for reflections and small shells.
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