Drake Farstrider
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Is there any suggestions or tutorials for painting horns/claws. I have seen some awsome looking horns and claws but every time I have tried to make mine look like them I have failed. Please help if possible. 
Help painting Horn\'s/claws
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Valander
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Drake, there\'s a few different ways to approach this, and what you do will depend on which techniques you\'re comfortable with.
Style 1: Simple Wash/Drybrush
This way is probalby the most straight forward, but you\'re likely to get \"fuzzy\" looking horns.
1. Basecoat your horns with a nice, medium brown like Snakebite Leather.
2. Apply a thin wash of a darker brown (like Brown Ink) around the join of the horn and the head/helmet/whatever, and around the last 1/4 of the tip. (Horns darken as they age, and the tips are the oldest parts...)
3. Drybrush most of the horn with Bleached Bone (or Ivory), leaving some area of the Snakebite near the join of the horn and head. You probably also don\'t want to completely cover the darker tip, but you may want to feather it out a bit, so that you don\'t have abrubt lines.
4. Drybrush a little white where the most highlights would be.
That\'s pretty simple, but it will look a little fuzzy, since most drybrushing tends to do that.
Style 2: Layering
If you\'re comfortable with layering, then use the same colors as above, but do layers rather than drybrush/wash. You\'ll need more steps (that is, more in-between colors) to make it appear smooth, but probably worth it. Just remember when layering to keep your paints really thin!
Style 3: Blending
Probably the most difficult, but will likely yield the best results. Wet-blending here is probably not too difficult, if you\'re familiar with the technique. A good retarder is really needed, but you won\'t need as many in-between colors, since you\'ll be mixing them on the horn itself.
Personally, I\'d go with somewhere between 3 and 4, with my pet technique. (Cue: U4-Welcome to chime in and mention my fave word... )
I see that you\'re in Seattle, too, Drake. PM me, and maybe we can hook up at some point and do some painting, especially if you go to Game Wizard any time.
Style 1: Simple Wash/Drybrush
This way is probalby the most straight forward, but you\'re likely to get \"fuzzy\" looking horns.
1. Basecoat your horns with a nice, medium brown like Snakebite Leather.
2. Apply a thin wash of a darker brown (like Brown Ink) around the join of the horn and the head/helmet/whatever, and around the last 1/4 of the tip. (Horns darken as they age, and the tips are the oldest parts...)
3. Drybrush most of the horn with Bleached Bone (or Ivory), leaving some area of the Snakebite near the join of the horn and head. You probably also don\'t want to completely cover the darker tip, but you may want to feather it out a bit, so that you don\'t have abrubt lines.
4. Drybrush a little white where the most highlights would be.
That\'s pretty simple, but it will look a little fuzzy, since most drybrushing tends to do that.
Style 2: Layering
If you\'re comfortable with layering, then use the same colors as above, but do layers rather than drybrush/wash. You\'ll need more steps (that is, more in-between colors) to make it appear smooth, but probably worth it. Just remember when layering to keep your paints really thin!
Style 3: Blending
Probably the most difficult, but will likely yield the best results. Wet-blending here is probably not too difficult, if you\'re familiar with the technique. A good retarder is really needed, but you won\'t need as many in-between colors, since you\'ll be mixing them on the horn itself.
Personally, I\'d go with somewhere between 3 and 4, with my pet technique. (Cue: U4-Welcome to chime in and mention my fave word...
)I see that you\'re in Seattle, too, Drake. PM me, and maybe we can hook up at some point and do some painting, especially if you go to Game Wizard any time.
Drake Farstrider
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Hey thanks doughnut for the reply, I would of never looked at that tutorial otherwise. Valander thanks for the tips as well, I will have to try them out. As for the Game Wizard I am familar with it (does Eric still own it), but I have no Idea as to where it is, is it in Ballard?
Jabberwocky
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Searching various forums...
I remember reading something somewhere (doesn\'t that help?). I can\'t find the article for the life of me, but did come across a similar thread at the Reaper forums here.
There is a recent thread at the forums here as well. Out of the 3 pages, about 1/2 a page is useful--the rest are various cow puns lol.
Hope this helps!
Jabber
I remember reading something somewhere (doesn\'t that help?). I can\'t find the article for the life of me, but did come across a similar thread at the Reaper forums here.
There is a recent thread at the forums here as well. Out of the 3 pages, about 1/2 a page is useful--the rest are various cow puns lol.
Hope this helps!
Jabber
Drake Farstrider
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@ Valander, that sounds great
@ Jabberwocky thanks for the links they both look promising
@ Jabberwocky thanks for the links they both look promising
