What's up guys, welcome back!
Today we're going to be looking at how to paint an Eldar Shadowseer.
There's quite a lot to go over so I'll split it up into three videos
This one will show how to do the fade to black diamonds, the gold and the gemstones.
Part II will go into the yellow purple fade.
And then in Part III we'll tackle the base
Alright so on our palette here we have
Black
Deep Blue
This is from Scale Color it's a very dark blue, you can use any dark blue you like.
Again just use your favourite bright blue
A saturated red
Sahara Yellow
So this is basically a yellow ochre and you can get the same sort of colour by mixing
a bit of averland sunset into zandri dust, or if you have it you can use Vallejo Japanese
Uniform.
Then we have Rhinox Hide
Mars Orange, again just use any bright orange.
Vallejo Ivory
And some white.
To start off we'll be using some Deep Blue and some Sky Blue.
Now we're going to do a wet blend so if you've never tried this before the basic principle
is to place one colour on the model, and then while it's still wet grab the next colour
and move the paint into the other, allowing them to mix and then by keeping the brush
moving back and forth you can pull the colour across the surface forming a blend between
the two.
Alright so start with the dark blue on the lower part of the leg.
And then we'll quickly grab some light blue and begin mixing them together.
So just keep going back and forth adding more of the either the dark or the light tone,
until you get the blend that you're looking for.
Just make sure to keep the brush moving and you can't go wrong.
When it dries you can clean up any flaws with a bit of a glaze.
So in this case the thigh is a little bit patchy so what we'll do is make a glaze of
our bright blue.
And simply glaze over these areas.
Now we're going to paint the foot black.
And we'll fade the bottom of the leg into the foot by making a glaze with black.
And then simply glazing towards the foot.
Alright so we'll essentially do the same thing on the other leg, except this time we'll use
a red and a dark red, which we'll make by adding some black to the red.
Now we're going to wet blend again, placing the dark red tone towards the top of the leg
this time.
And we're going to create a fade into the brighter red towards the foot.
Again try and keep the paint moving until you get the blend that you want.
If you mess this up don't worry too much, just let it dry and then give it another go.
So to paint the diamonds what we'll do is we'll take some black and we'll paint thin
diagonal lines over the leg.
Making sure that these are parallel to each other and evenly spaced.
Alright so just continue that over the entire leg.
Once you've done that you're going to turn the model round and do the same thing in the
opposite direction.
And that's going to give you these diamond shapes.
And again just continue that over the entire leg.
So once that's finished we're going to fill in the diamonds.
Try and stay within the lines but if you do make a mistake you can just use your blue
tones to clean up the edges.
We're going to move onto the gold now so just take some of your sahara yellow and add a
little black.
Now we'll draw this up over the surface to where we want the highlight to be.
You want to actually create a bit of a fade into this so don't use it as a base colour
as such, you want to look at it as more of an initial highlight over the black base.
So the highlight's going to be here in the middle of these two bands on the belt.
And on the lower corner of these little funky bits at the side.
And then we'll do the same sort of thing on the other side.
We'll switch over to sahara yellow now and we'll start building up our highlight.
So again we're going to focus on those same points we did before but we'll try and cover
a smaller surface area.
Ok so now we're going to mix in some Ivory and continue to highlight.
So once we've finished our highlights, we're going to make a glaze with Rhinox Hide and
we're going to use this to glaze towards the black sections.
To finish off we'll add some very small white highlights with white.
For the gemstones we're going to base in the same dark red that we used on the leg.
Switch over to your bright red and paint a U shaped highlight following the curve along
the lower edge of the gemstone.
You'll need to do this in a couple of layers before the red starts to stand out.
Use some of your orange paint and add a smaller highlight along the bottom edge of the gem.
Add some white and simple highlight again.
Now just use some white to add a very small dot on the upper edge of the gemstone.
Alright so that's the end of part I, I hope you enjoyed it.
Let me know what you thought in the comments section and I'll see you all in part II.
Thanks again
Bye for now...