Questions on Painting Techniques

[Dark Moon Dragyn]

I have two questions about painting techniques, being a new painter I don\'t have experience at all. I\'m trying to paint my first skeleton and want to try and make it as \"realistic\" as possible.

Anyone know a good technique to either put rust or blood on a blade that I\'m going to paint for a skellie??

And could anyone tell me how to paint a wooden buckler for the skellie too. I know it\'s probably a little bit too advanced for me, but if I could I\'d like to make the wood look somewhat aged.

Thanks,
DMD

 

[Itchy]

for the rust you could try real rust. looks good over inked metalics and shiney NMM. Just rust up some steal wool and use a damp brush to build washes where you want it and clumps on really rusted up spots.

sorry, don\'t really understand what you\'re trying to do with the aged wood. rotting wood maybe?

 

[Dark Moon Dragyn]

yeah, something along that lines...I don\'t really want my skeletons to have brand new equipment, I want them to kinda look like they\'ve been beat up or at least the equipment to be old or ancient, if you get my drift

 

[airhead]

DMD, For skelies, I start with red gore, then a heavy drybrush of rotten flesh, then a lighter drybrush of bleached bone. This gives them that old beef jerky look down inside.

For the aged wood, try a dark brown or black ink wash to really dirty/age the wood. If there is some grain in the sculpt, go back with a bit of medium brown to show the grain.

 

[Ritual]

DMD, there\'s an article in the articles section on CMON written by Allan C (translated to English by Frenchkid) that deals with oxidation of metals. Allan\'s recipe for rusted steel is magnificent (and not very difficult, either).