Doggie Painting

[MClimbin]

Hey all,

I also posted this question on the Reaper boards, so I apologize to those of you who have to read it twice.

I picked up a couple of Reaper dire wolves (http://www.reapermini.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=1479&cat=0&page=1) for my next DnD game, to act as animal companions/summoned animals for my druid character. I\'d like to paint up the little guys in a fairly realistic way, so I have some questions for those of you who have done multi-colored fur:

I can think of two ways to do it:

1. basecoat the areas in different colors, blocking out the general pattern, then wash in different colors, overlapping the washes over the basecoat patterns so there is a \"natural\" gradation, then drybrush, again overlapping some areas (so as to avoid the dreaded \"brown cow style\" dire wolf)

2: basecoat the whole lil doggie in the same (dark gray) color, then wash in different colors, and drybrush, again with some overlap. This way, the differences in color will be just from the washes and drybrushing (i.e., a very light wash on the white parts).

What do you think? Or is there a better way to do fur that I haven\'t thought about?


Thanks in advance for your insight,

Mc :bouncy:

 

[supervike]

Doggie Style

Are you talking about multicolor fur like on a German Shepard? Or maybe a Husky...

It does seem that method 1 might lead to your dreaded \"brown cow\" if you weren\'t careful.

I like the #2 idea a little better, as it would seem to be more natural and \'blend in\' better with the surrounding fur.

Here are a couple of examples I found here on CMON:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/5973

http://www.coolminiornot.com/20796

The first one there gives a little explanation on how they achieved it.

Good luck and post what you come up with!