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| Step-by-Step Guide to Painting a High Elf Archer |
| by ekxw |
Welcome. In this article, we will be looking at how to paint a High Elf archer.
Required Materials:
A paintbrush
PVA Glue or alternative
The following Citadel paints:
Leather Brown
Burnt Brown
Chestnut Ink
Brown Ink
Skull White
Chaos Black
Dwarf Flesh
Elf Flesh
Regal blue
Magic Blue
Hawk Blue
Gore Red
Blood Red
Blazing Orange
Burnished Gold
Sunburst Yellow
Golden Yellow
Goblin Green.
Step-by-Step Guide:
1.) Undercoat the miniature in white.
2.)
Using Sunburst Yellow paint the hair.
Using Dwarf Flesh paint the hands and face.
Using Gore Red paint the tunic (robe).
Using Leather Brown paint the bow and the cloth and the parts that will be gold.
Using Regal Blue paint the belt.
Using the dark Brown paint the ribbon.
Finally paint the boots Chaos Black.
3.) Apply gold paint over the brown base coat where you want the gold to show, such as the bow and the gauntlets.
4.)- Mix brown ink with chestnut ink and a drop of water. Apply the wash over the miniature, except from the belt and robe. Do not get ink onto the belt or robe. Once that is dry, highlight the robe with blood red.
5.)Highlight the outside edges of the robe with blazing orange.
6.) Paint the bow, the clothes and the bag leather brown.
7.) Mix some white paint with brown, and highlight the brown areas from the above step.
8.) Continue adding white to the mix and highlighting the areas.
9.) And again...
10.) Apply a final pure white highlight. Ensure you mix some water in with the white so that highlight blends in with the layers below.
11.) Paint the face and hands with Dwarf Flesh leaving the previous colour showing in the recesses.
Paint the hair with gold yellow, again leaving the previous colour showing in the recesses.
12.) Apply a highlight of Dwarf Flesh mixed with Elf Flesh to the flesh areas and highlight the hair with sunbust yellow.
13.) Apply another highlight of pure Elf Flesh to the skin and give the last highlights to the hair with a mix of in sunbust yellow and skull white.
14.)Mix Elf Flesh with a white for the final highlight on the face and hands. Pick out the lips with a mixture of blood red and dwarf flesh
15.) Paint the eyes as follows:
Paint the eye socket black
Apply a small dot of white to one side of the eye socket
Paint another dot of white to the other side leaving some black showing inbetween.
16.) Highlight the golden areas using a mix of burnished gold and brown. Paint the gems by referring to my Step-By-Step to Painting Gems guide.
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17.) Now for detailing. Mix burnt brown with leather brown and make an small highlight on the edges of the belt going across the chest.
18.) Highlight the waist belt with magic blue, then again with hawk blue.
19.) Onto the quiver. Paint the main part in regal blue, the gem as detailed earlier, the gold also as detailed earlier in the article, and the feathers brown. Highlight the feathers with a lighter brown, then up to a white/brown mixture.
20.) Paint the base in Goblin Green
21.) Apply P.V.A. glue to the top of base and dip it in static flock.
Voila! One tabletop standard (or better) archer. Now, just another 9 to go!
-ekxw
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