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Skorne Supreme Archdomina Makeda
Commission for a repeat client. The project brief was to position her on a rock outcrop to make her stand out a feature piece in his army. He wanted the model to be painted identically to the image in the codex - having her fade from bright to dark from top to bottom. he also wanted the metals to have a bit more of a red tone, copying the colour of the metal on her headdress. For the armour plates i used the standard red-glazed effect from the codex, but shifted the edges a bit more towards the brown sides for shading. I tried to stick to the red metal effect as much as possible, but had to pull away from that for contrast. most of the metal is rather done with an adaption of my extreme gold effect. The red metals are shown on the 2 pieces of armour on her hips, her headdress and the pole of her standard. The shading effect had to be scaled back a bit to ensure she didn`t just dissappear into her base, i used successive washes and glazes on the legs to darken the armour plates, fading downwards. Similarly i used GWs rhinox to shade the gold in the same areas, which also robbed a bit of the contrast in those areas by matching the armour tones without darkening too much. the ends of her waist sash was faded from red to purple and the highlights were faded from orange to blue. In my opinion the most important step was to go over all the entire model with an extreme shadow of a blue-spectrum purple. This added a visual break between the red armour plates and the gold trim and allowed the shadows on each area to be ''blacker than black'' without actually being black and darkening the model. I wanted the figure to be bright and the base to be dark, so the rock base was actually base-coated with a very dark blue, then using successive layers of dry-brush, washes, glazes, and over-paint techniques with an extreme highlight put in at the middle of the stages(for blending purposes i did this at the mid point). washes were warm tones and highlights were neutral. I kept the flocking green, and the litlle plant was painted with extremely drab tones as to not pull too much attention away from the actual figure.
Posted: 30 Apr 2013
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