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Paint Project: [WM] High Paladin Dartan Vilmon – Part 2
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
I’ve gotten the base colors down now. Namely the undercoats for the white, read, and leather areas. Have a look:
I’m avoiding the gold areas for now. I find metallics make a good final color to work on provided they’re not stuck down in some crevice, especially since they cover over anything that got a little “outside the lines”. Since the face is surrounded by gold metal colors, I’ll worry about it later as well.
In the meantime, I put the mid-tones on. I’m going for a base color, mid-tone, highlight, and extreme highlight. So 4 layers of colors with several layers of the first 3 to give a more blended effect.
I use a slightly damp brush and watered down paints to do the blending. Brush on a little of the paint, then drag it out to blend it with the damp brush, or to remove any excess that presents too strong of a color change.
The same technique goes into the highlights.
That’s all for now. I’ll be doing the gold and face both in a base coat, ink wash, highlight, and extreme highlight setup. Should have those completed and up in time for next week’s Thursday post 
