Painting Mantic’s Twilight Kin Sorceress Part 1
October 22, 2013 by elromanozo
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i wish this tutorial was out yesterday lol. i just painted a vampire countess. i have gone for a much pinkier tones although really pale. thanks for the tutorial its very helpfull for future prodjects.
You’re welcome ! Thanks for your viewership ! 🙂
I find these tutorials very relaxing, informative and helpful. Romain is the Bob Ross of miniature painting.
Thanks !
I get that “Bob Ross” comment a lot… 😉
I am glad I am not the only one….
Great video. I really like the subject miniature and the tones you used were perfect. It would’ve been worth watching just to hear you comment about cougars but the painting was pretty good too. Hehe.
Aw, thanks !
It’s not done by a longshot. Stay tuned ! 🙂
Romain at his usual best…
It was amazing watching the figure against your hand: the skin came gradually from a greyish purple to very near your own skin colour!
Are you sure you are not part dark elf also? 😀
Thanks and congrats!
Fernando
Thanks a lot !
I’m part human, and part I-don’t-do-sun. 🙂
I very much enjoyed this and for some reason was reminded of La Borne near Bourge. Have you visited? I think you would enjoy the area.
Thank you !
One of my friends is from Berry (very old family, too), but we lost touch a long, long time ago. I’ve never visited him there. And he now lives near the Pyrénées anyway. I hear it’s a lovely region.
My brother now lives in Touraine, which isn’t too far from Berry, and the scenery around the river Loire there is quite stunning.
I couldn’t tell you why this tutorial reminds you of La Borne, though…
I watched again and I believe it was the colour of the paints reminded me of the clay and some of the more exotic glaze I have seen in the village. I had also been talking to a friend who’s family live in the village so I think it may have been present in my mind. I would love to go back one of these days and spent a week or several simply visiting all the beautiful sights around the countryside.
Hope you are still answering comments on this video.
I am a big fan of your videos and painting technique!
In this video, it seems that you are not doing your usual pre-shading and many thin layers, atleast for the parts you have painted so far.
Is this correctly observed and is there a reason for this?
I am trying to adopt your wet-palette+pre-shading+thin layers technique and I am now wondering if there are times where this technique is not a good choice or if I am missing some details.
Thanks ! I do answer… If I don’t, try sending a perosnal message, I always answer those.
I haven’t pre-shaded, because I knew the fleshtone and metals (quite a lot of this miniature, combined) would have to be pale and/or vivid. I guess I could have primed grey, for the sake of legibility, but white works just as well.
I’m not doing thatm many layers because I’m always trying to compress my tutorials so you get the bulk of a technique in less filming time… Although I don’t think I’m doing any less than what I’m used to. Maybe it’s in the editing. It is true that with experience comes a touch that’s a bit more assured, and you may dare less dilution.
Another possible reason is that the Army Painter paints are very flowy already, and that the surfaces are quite small, meaning you can cover them much more quickly and that there’s less of a problem with non-homogenous large surfaces… So less need of a lot of coats. At least for the skin.
But the layers are thin enough, trust me.
A technique is… just a technique. It has to be adapted to the miniature, and it works only if you want to get certain results. Stony textures are better handled with dry-brushing, while most leather and rough surfaces are handled better by some form of pointillism… It all depends on what you want to achieve.
Pre-shading is a trick that you can use no matter how you paint later on. You don’t even have to paint a whole miniature in just one technique, and you never have to lay on 248 layers of every colour to blend things if you don’t want to… I certainly don’t ! 🙂
The wet palette, however, is a game-changer for the way you paint : it doesn’t matter what technique you use, it’s always useful.
These things are like tools in your mental toolbox : you can use them, mix and match them, and each is good for certain things. If you know what trick gives what result, you’re in business. Just add this to your arsenal and use it when appropriate.
Looking forward to seeing how this one develops, as be69 says a very relaxing and informative video, count me in for the next one.