Painting cloaks and and shading on robes

[Yetie]

So I\'m painting the 4th one down http://uk.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.uk?do=Individual&code=99110108062&orignav=10 and I\'ve started by doing it in P3 Thrall Flesh, but now I just cant seem to get the shading right. I asked for advise and Matty said about putting a bit of purple and black into the original basecoat I did this and it looked ok. Untill I highlighted it and the purple just seemed to jump out. I can\'t post any pics as I have no comp at home any advice would be great. I\'m going to take the bull by the horns on friday and get some DA Vets that way I have to improve the robe paiting or cry in failure and I dont do failure

 

[Ritual]

Matty\'s caused this mess, let him sort it out! lol

Seriously, though... When you say the purple \"jumps out\" what do you mean? Do you mean that you notice the purple hue in the shadows when the highlights have been added? Or do you get purple into the highlights?

 

[Yetie]

I mean when there was no highlight the shade looked fine, did what it was meant to created depth etc but the rest looked flat. So I mixed a bit of bleached bone in to the basecoat and hightlighted the raised areas etc the purple seems more noticeable. Were as before it looked like depth it just looks like purple now, I\'m guessing its just a case of fidling with paint ratio\'s but just wanted to know if anybody had any tips

 

[matty1001]

The purple shade will become more prominent when you add a highlight as the contrast increases.

Just go over with a mid tone glaze to tone the prurple down a bit.

 

[Yetie]

Ok I was gutted because it looked great to start off with, I\'ll give it a go see what happens

 

[Ritual]

There\'s also a possibility that you put too much purple into the shading mix. Or, simply that you\'re not used to seeing odd colour shifts on your mini. But, yeah, like Matty said... glaze with your base coat until you\'re happy with the look.

 

[Dragonsreach]

If you are adding purple as a shade you need to work it as a glaze adding very small amounts to the shadow areas. Then rework the mid tones rather than jumping straight up to the highlight.
Remember that purple can be either very subtle or extremely Blatant and \"in your face\" as you seem to have found out.