How do you Paint Etheric Energy

[sparto]

Hello, this is my first post here at cool mini or not, I am currently painting Grey Knights.

I have been working on recreating Pandemonium of Sondoheim V. I currently have been destroying some Hormigaunts and now I am working on another squad killing some Bloodletters. The Daemons that are getting hacked and slashed apart by my squads of Grey Knights & Terminators. I wanted to paint there "blood" (for lack of a better term) but doing some red, green, blue, etc... is not what I want. I want that warp energy look on the inside of my slashed open Daemons.


What I was thinking was to use materials like on the below bases inside the wounds for texture and a swirl affect.

DROPSHIP HORIZON: Basing with Washes
then paint it using a MIRAGE® - COMPLETE COLOR KITS: MP403 Red/Blue Kit: onto the textured wound.
SprayPaintDepot - Color-Shifting Paint


do you think that this will give me the Etheric Energy look I am looking for ... something like

If you have any suggestions for me that would be fantastic, thanks a lot

 

[me_in_japan]

How do you paint etheric energy

One of the great conundrums of our time, methinks

heh, no, but seriously, it's pretty hard to paint something which is basically intangible light. Depending on your skill level, it could be worth painting the wounds of the daemons to use OSL. Paint the wounds a pale green/pink/blue, with the depths of the wound almost white (kinda the opposite to how you'd usually do something) then paint anything around the area with a gradually fading light effect from the wound. This is a rubbish description of a fairly do-able technique. Here's a nice example:

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and the tutorial I blatantly stole it from

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Z..._Snow_and_Ice_Tutorial,_subject_-_Grey_Knight (step 6 - glowing eyes. reproduce this effect on the wounds in the daemons.)

hope that helps

ps - incidentally, a nice, easy technique for "glowy depths" is in the Warmachine Cryx book:

paint the wound in the colour you want it to be. let's say purple.
mix up some very dilute white paint.
wash the white paint into the wound. It'll pool in the recessed parts, making them whiter than the higher up parts. Depending on dilution, you may need to do this a few times. You dont want to make the whole wound white - just create a kinda gradiated effect where the deep parts are whiter than the raised parts.
Finally, wash the whole wound with a couple glazes of purple ink/thinned purple paint. dont let this pool.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

You might try painting things in the style of lava and just substitute cool colors for the hot one's

 

[RuneBrush]

I think painting blood like that might not quite work, however painting "cracks" as the deamon's dissolve like you've posted would look really good. Colour wise you're looking at warlock purple as the "base" going to white in the deepest recesses and up through liche purple with blue edges (not sure what blue - brain is fuzzy from the weekend). As Shawn says look at how people paint lava is a very good starting point.

 

[sparto]

Thank you so much for the advise,

Colour wise you're looking at warlock purple as the "base" going to white in the deepest recesses and up through liche purple with blue edges.

I am going to be going through a few video's to look at painting lava, using purple's and blue's.

painting "cracks" as the deamon's dissolve like you've posted would look really good.

I am hell bent on finding a use for my changing color spraypaint, so I am going to take you suggestion and paint the cracks in the changing color spray paint.

I am also thinking of doing some daemon infested world looking base ... fleshy, ozing, festering kind of thing. What would you use to texture the bases, I kind of like the bases that I posted above, but any other suggestions would be great.

Thanks again,

Sparto

 

[RuneBrush]

I missed the bit about your colour changing paint! I've wanted to paint a Thousand Son marine up with some of that for ages, just not found it in the UK for a sensible price

 

[ultracius]

Thank you so much for the advise.