\"Fairy\" Elf or Dark Elf?

[angus147258]

Yah I\'ve seen it! That thing is sweet!

 

[Naukhel]

I voted other.
Make her an ice elf.

 

[angus147258]

I just painted her in a completely differant scheme thank anyone suggested. I painted her in a warm, rotten gray color with shiny red lipstick and reed glowing eyes. I\'m at a lost on how to paint her hair though. Perhaps like a purple/gray kind of look? What do you think?

Edit: I can\'t take pictures of my work but I can give you an idea of how I painted it. Heres how I did it:
Base coat skin (after lining) with a 50/50 mix of basalt gray and deck tan
Highlight with a 50/50 mix of ivory and bassalt gray
highlight with pure deck tan
highlight with pure ivory
highlight with white
shade with pure basalt gray
shade with 50/50 mix of basalt gray and german cam. black brown
shade with pure german cam. black brown
Glaze with first highlight.
Paint eyes and lower lip with german cam. black brown
Highlight lip with burnt cad. umber
highlight lip with flat flesh and up to ivory
paint eyes with flat flesh leaving brown in the recesses
highlight up to white in the middle of the eyes
wash the eyes with burnt cad. umber

I hope you can kind of get a sence of it.

Jake

 

[DaN]

Don\'t ask me why, but as soon as she came up, I thought \"wood elf\" (As opposed to nancy high elf)

Maybe though, you could do a variation on that and do a dark-wood elf...?

Where the trees in the wood have leached warpstone or some b****cks like that.

 

[angus147258]

I already painted her skin. See my last post. I still don\'t know how to paint her hair though.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by angus147258
Hey guys,
I\'m currently painting Werner Klockes masterpeice Alastriel.
I can\'t seem to decide what color scheme to go on this one.
I\'m trying to chose between a dark elf and a \"regular\" elf.
She Really doesn\'t look that evil so a dark elf might not fit but it might be fun just to be unique. I\'ve never seen her painted anyway other than the classic fairy type elf.
So what do you guys think, dark or light elf?

Angus I\'m really, really really disappointed in you!
A real painter would get two and do one of each!

 

[angus147258]

I\'m not that rich! lol

 

[Drake Farstrider]

The purple/grey idea for her hair might be nice. When can we see some pict\'s?

 

[angus147258]

Look at my other topic on her or on the WIP thread to see some pics.