dirty linnen/old clothing

[Garshnak]

My ideas were to saturate the colors with mixes of grey and keep it kinda dark with some contrasting highlights. And to make it look more dirty...fill up the crevices with brown?..or just sorta splatter cloth-ends(sleeves, lowest part of robes)...

I\'ve tryed some things, bit all just doesn\'t feel too good if you add it up. I\'m going for the dark/moody/gritty style here, y\'know the \'messy\' one.

 

[Chrispy]

I keep tellin gmyself I\'ll get around to the dirty cloth article, maybe now that it\'s summer I can get it in before summer school...

Anyways: thing to remember with dirty cloth/spattered clothing is NOT to put the dirt on afterwards, then it just looks like you swished the brush around. The easiest way is to mix your cloth color+ the dirt color and use that for shading, then you cna go back and add strokes. I did this on my Spasm Warrior with good results.

Hope this helps!

 

[Dragonsreach]

You\'re talking linen here, so the natural colour is somewhere between GW\'s Bleached Bone and Vallejo Pale Sand.
To darken them down you need to consider where the contact points on clothes are. IE the collars, cuffs, hems etc these are the area\'s which will pick up the worst of any dirt.
To reflect this correctly think of the Denethors chamber scene in \"The Return of the King\" and Gandalf\'s cloak is all brown around the hem from the horse ride. So cloak hems and boots will pick up ground dirt. (Soil, Grass stains, Horse Muck... etc)
While cuffs will pick up food stuffs, weapon oils, candle grease that kind of thing.
And Collars would pick up the natural hair oils.
This may not have given you the colours to work from but I hope that it\'s a little food for thought.

 

[Garshnak]

Thanks for replying.

Chrispy-that Spasm Warrior\'s cloak IS awesome, great example! Great idea, now I know why that splattering didn\'t pay off, what a waste of good teethbrushes
Thanks and please oh please make that article:flip::innocent:
(it kinda reminds me of the way you can paint rust on NMM/MM)

Dragonsreach-I love that film!(now who doesn\'t!? *throws an distrusting look into the crowds*) Yeh is giving me great inspiration with your insight.(grass-stains..hmm..weapon-oils..hmmhmm...hair-oils..nah, hard to paint and imagine...) Gots me all thinkin\' ...thanks! I think if those ideas are put into action, you cna get quite a lifelike mini....because that\'s how I think it makes it living..a history!:idea:

That you can see by his sword that he fought many battles, and see by his grudgy look that had he lost many friends and seen horrible things. And that you can see by his sleeves, that he uses his hands to smite his foul enemies with is trusty(and oily) mace/sword(hmm:idea: )...ohhh yess...