hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle we made a model we've been working with an artist
called licorice you've already seen some of our work in this video and all of our
videos our animated intro well she's also a very good sculptor and we've been working on creating
some minis and the first one is this this is the squid mage in the squid mage activated
a powerful magic wielder not only is this a very unique mini but those big old tentacles
provide an interesting painting challenge we are going to be producing miniatures monthly
available as stls and physical 3d prints this is our may release it's a mini of the month
club and if there are any miniatures you're interested in seeing us produce
please leave your ideas in the comments below but now i'm gonna paint this model up this is
licorice's original design and it's wonderful as a 2d drawing but to translate it into a 3d miniature
i'm going to focus on extreme contrast and try and force even more detail into the miniature
i primed the model black and then i did a very selective xenothon instead of just spraying from
above i picked spots on each tentacle to highlight leaving a majority of each appendage in shadow
these spots of light are going to be the areas that i paint to 100 and all the shadow i can
leave dark and obscured to get my tentacles to that rosy pink i made a very watery magenta glaze
and i spread this all over the tentacles using the biggest brush i possibly could i did this
again and again until the color was as saturated as i wanted it took about three passes then i took
some white paint and began sketching out all my free-handed stripes and spots following licorice's
design this white will do two things for me it'll give me a nice base coat for the green so i don't
have to do multiple coats and i can focus on painting green without worrying about where
things should go that decision has already been made while i was painting the green i used a dark
green to do some fast and dirty shadows around the edges of each tentacle i didn't spend too
much time perfecting this because i don't need to because of the next step the model is bright but i
want a huge shift in light and dark so i sprayed a transparent black and magenta ink mixture through
my airbrush right over the pink and green to bring everything back in line with my original xenothol
now i know exactly what spots to focus on and which i can ignore
on each of my bright spots i took an almost white green and made a line in the middle of my tentacle
then i did the same thing with an almost white pink this will be my light reflection then i made
up a midtone of these colors and painted these next to my highlights and began to blend it out
then i did the same thing with the darker mixture laying it next to my last brush strokes
now i had some stripes of color so i mixed them together and painted this mixture where my colors
met and i continued to do this over and over until i could no longer see a line of transition
finally a glaze of magenta over the pink and green over the spots to help hide any remaining
imperfections in my blends there are other ways to blend but this is the most simple you just
make new colors in between your old ones and lay them down next to one another until eventually
it creates an almost seamless gradient then a final glaze can basically make them disappear
and that's the tentacles it's the ultimate blending opportunity and after doing this on every
single tentacle i could do it in my sleep and only focusing on the bright spots made the process much
more manageable after accomplishing the tentacles the mage was simple i glazed a purple gray over
her skin and a magenta over her dress i mixed magenta with black paint and i used this on all
the creases in the fabric then i did a line of pure black in the middle of my dark magenta lines
and i did the same operations in reverse mixing magenta with white to get a highlight going and
a lighter shade of pink for the most raised areas and i treated the skin in the same way
using a black purple mixture to outline her head joints and were her skin met her clothing honestly
this is one of my favorite minis i've painted the tentacles were a challenge but after tackling it
i feel much more confident in my free handing and blending this is also a good learning process for
highlights and shadows it's kind of trippy to move the model around and see the lighting stick right
where i placed it i follow licorice's concept art but you could throw anything on those tentacles
zebra stripes octopus spots danny devito's face this model is a challenge i overcame and i'm
going to mount this model on a plinth and write my name on it and if you also paint it up and show us
on discord i will write your name alongside mine and we will show off your painted mini next month
when we unveil our next models if you want the stl version of the squid mage and the squid mage
activated you can find that on our patreon and after the month of may they will be available
for purchase and if you want to buy a physical copy there are two links in the description below
one for the us and one for the rest of the world thanks for watching