Yogie Paints Large Minis and Busts

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Charlotte Vampire Queen Pants

November 17, 2018

I designed the Charlotte the Vampire Queen miniature for Eclipse Miniatures.

The 3d sculptor was so good and helpful to work with that and given that he doesn’t paint miniatures I decided that I would paint one for him to say thankyou.

I asked him what colours he wanted and he said he wanted a dark almost black purple for the pants and corset.

Reference Photo

Now we all know that that’s a little boring so i decided to take the shadows to black but really bring the highlights up to a lighter colour.

This is where the zenithal priming method would come in handy.

Zenithal Priming done

With essentially all the light and dark bits sketched out it was time to start glazing some purples.

I used Reaper Master Series Imperial Purple as the first glaze and really started to get that purple look.

After that I glazed black into the shadows and in the deep deep shadows I continued to glaze until I got to pure black.

Finally I used Reaper Master Series Amathyst purple to glaze back up to a higher purple concentrating purely on the areas that would get the most light.

Now when glazing it’s very important to let each layer dry first. Now this process is extremely slow and it’s taken me 90 minutes to get where I’m at now. As always I’ll revisit tomorrow to see what blends need to be smoothed out and perhaps lighten the highlights just that little bit more.