painting pink pig-squig, mud included?

[Kara Jane]

I\'ve always liked pigs, well at least the idea of them. So I decided to paint my squigs piggy

Squigs are really just mad pigs anyway, just with more teeth and less legs so I thought a hoard of screaming squig bacon would make a good addition to killing dwarves, my boyfriends army.

When I first painted them I mixed Mechite Red GW and Dead White VGC to a dark red pink and started just painting and highlighting with more white added along the way. But I found that in the light it was not a realistic piggy pink, they have more flesh brown colour to them. In short they looked sunburnt, which could explain their temper.

So the next day I thinned down a mix of tallern flesh, mechrite red and dead white, got a more realistic tone that way and applied this thinly over the last coats.

It gave a really nice depth to the skin, and it is a real shame I don\'t have a camera yet ,it really is.

So I have some lovely piggy squigs, but they are just a bit too clean, I want some true pigs, food stains, and thin mud. :idea:

So how would I go about adding grass/food stains, mud and the like?

All I can think of is thin glazes to suggest those things but don\'t want to risk it. but I think it would be too light.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Kara Jane
So how would I go about adding grass/food stains, mud and the like?

All I can think of is thin glazes to suggest those things but don\'t want to risk it. but I think it would be too light.

When you haven\'t worked the muddy/dirty colours into the main paint you have to apply these on top, basically using glazes. These don\'t have to be that dilute and you can always apply more layers if they do turn out too light.

I generally like to use a combo of subtle weathering - just there but not too strident - with at least a few touches of something more pronounced. So fresh spatters over dusty residue, mud caked around the cuffs of the pants, the heel or two of boots, a few fresh blood spots. That kind of thing.

It\'s very common when you\'ve painted something \'clean\' and it looks good to be nervous about dirtying it up - will it look okay? will it look better? - but the only way to get over this is by trying stuff out. This is why subtle glazing is a good way of doing this for many people as you can go slow, building up the effect in layers.

Einion

 

[Kara Jane]

Thank you Einion

At the moment I have just glazed over the lips and gums of the squigs with green and red, it has made it look like any bite from them would be nasty. I\'m going to apply some blue or purple to contrast with the yellow teeth (desert yellow highlights with bleached bone/desert yellowmix).

Some blood splatter could work nice on the lips (yes I am focussed on the lips) or maybe a stream of blood from the side of the mouth, work some movement in.

The next thing I am going to try and do is shine the lips and gums up a bit, I\'ll try and recreate my pig pink but mix in some purple to get livid lips.

Pictures should be around in two days.