Painting stone

[isaacc]

I sure would appreciate any advice on painting a stone-headed weapon such as an axe or hammer.

I was thinking:

(a) For a base, white:grey at about 9:1.

(b) Then drybrushing very lightly with the same grey to get the greyish flecks in the stone.

(c) Then drybrushing again even lighter with a silver lighter coloured than the grey to get the reflective flecks in the stone.

(d) For highlights, I thought do nothing.

(e) For shading, a heavy drybrush with white:grey 5:5 and 1:4.

Thanks.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Drybrushing would give it a good texture. Depending on the size of the stone you might take a toothbrush with a little bit of paint on it (so the specks arent too big) and flick your thumb over the bristles to spray fine droplets on the stone giving it a granite look.

Post some pix.

 

[Dragonsreach]

To be honest drybrushing isn\'t going to \"cut the mustard\" on stones as weapons.
Take a look at this Flint Arrowhead

It\'s one of the most commonest materials ever utilised as weapons and tools in forms like Arrowheads and Axes.
It\'s sharp, semi-reflective and in some places almost transparent.
Trying to drybrush to get effects almost equivilent to that picture would be almost impossible in my opinion.
Personally speaking I\'d opt for a mid-toned basecolour and then enhance the effects by very careful washes and glazes.

 

[airhead]

Originally posted by isaacc
...(e) For shading, a heavy drybrush with white:grey 5:5 and 1:4...

This part struck me as being very wrong. Try a wash instead of a drybrush. You want to get into the recesses with the shadow color, not hit the high spots. That would basicly undo everything you just did drybrushing in highlights. Move this to steb B.

Here\'s some decent ideas on ice/stone axes:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics8/img4313066317041.jpg

 

[isaacc]

Thanks for all the help so far.

So, let me be more precise. I am looking for a technique to simulate granite. The weapon I have in mind is a giant stone hammer which is basically a big oblong of granite. It does not have the surface texture of the chipped stone arrowheads and swords you guys gave as examples.

 

[isaacc]

So, searching here using \'granite\' I got to this:

http://www.hot-lead.org/advance/texturing_granite.htm

Looks like the toothbrush technique was spot on. Thanks again.

 

[airhead]

Try this:
http://www.hot-lead.org/advance/texturing_marble.htm

but don\'t put the veins in and use grays & blue grays instead of greens. (although granite can come in a lot of colors naturally tan, reddish, blueish, black)

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Well, granite is simply rock with lots of little specks. You might simply try taking a stiff haired brush or tooth brush, put a little paint on the tips and simply, lightly poke at the stone. Not too hard.

 

[DaN]

Is there a specific rock you\'d like to USE...?
Certain rocks are better used as weapons than others due to their fracture surfaces, hardness, etc

ie. Obsidian, which can have edges even sharper than steel