La téne! Very cool! It goes really well with elves.gilterien wrote:JesterPainting, thanks!
The style is called la téne and originated in switzerland. It's so prominent in design, there's loads of reading into it. Square-based knots were meant to ward away evil spirits. They were called "shield knots" and painted onto shields of warriors before battle! I tried for an interlace on the dragon prince banner, cos when you interlace things you combine and unify them- i tried to have the "dragon" and a round "world" going on if you see where i'm going with it
Yes my silver parts are definitely meh. What I'm doing right now is a boltgun metal base, black wash and a bold mithril silver highlight. Is my recipe off, or could my placement of highlights be better? Could you offer me something to improve them? Im doing something large and scaly right now but there is silver on it I could practise on?
As to the silver, I usually go chainmail-black wash-chainmail-mithril silver. Typically these are careful drybrushing of chainmail, and layering on other metal areas. I think the "double" highlight/layer at the end makes for more depth. Also, I think you could wash a bit more heavily to deepen the recesses, especially if you were to do a touch up with the chainmail afterwards before the mithril.
Ah, btw, I don't mean to say the silver looks bad, it is just less good than the other parts.