Black and Burgundy

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Meg

New member
Hello :)

I\'m looking for some information on how to shade burgundy (as for a dress)... by mixing Vallejo game colors #11 and 12, I got a base shade I liked, but was then at a loss as to either highlight or darken. Red is such a tricky beast!

For what it\'s worth I was also looking for black hair input - though from searching the forums I see no consensus on the topic. :/

But anyway if you have information or a good example of either of these, I am very appreciative.
 
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Sturmhalo

Guest
Don\'t know which colours exactly you\'re using there, but I\'d try mixing Bonewhite into the red mix. Not too much though coz you\'ll end up with pink!
 
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Trevor

Brushlicker and Freak!
you can use black or purple ink to shade, black gives a browner red, purple a more... well purplely red. I would guess purple would be best for burgundy.

For highlighting use a bright scarlet red.

Black hair is difficult to do, but use grey or white to highlight and just do it on small parts not all over. If you look at black hair it actually catches the light and gives white reflections, but that is really hard to do on minis.
 
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U4-Welcome

Guest
Concerning the hair, I read somewhere that IRL, black hair was usually really dark brown hair, so maybe you can just paint them like that, highlighting through brown and yellow really fast with white reflections. The only true black hair, my source went on, are found in asian people and actually give slightly blue highlights.
 
ipaintminis

ipaintminis

Active member
ill attest to the fact that \"black\" hair is just very very very dark brown and depending on how much the person is out in the sun the browner it was...

i had this type of hair till i dyed it. but if you make it verrrrrrry dark brown maybe with some black in the mix then highlight up to a dark brown, that would be hair in fla, where its really sunny and hair gets bleached.
 
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Meg

New member
I wanted to keep the black-haired mini in the cool color spectrum (it\'s not the same one as the burgundy - I have too many projects :p), so I think I\'ll try the gray or blue approach... seems difficult though, so definitely time to bring out the Sacrificial Test Minis. ;)
 
Shawn R. L.

Shawn R. L.

New member
One trick you can do when trying to shade a dark color is to make the unshaded part A BIT brighter and lighter and use the color you want (burgandy) as the shadow. Use, say, magenta, or alizeran crimson for the highlights and then work your way down to burgandy with a touch of black as the darkest of the shadow.
 
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