posted by roman, jarhead, kong
I next took a thoothpick...
Aloa,
lalala... no Eldar yet. But i got something else, which might be intresting. I often use this technique when painting demons or mostly demonettes. I would call it "Doting", but i guess everyone has his own idea of a better name.
As i am finishing off the JMD Daemonette at the Moment and started over to the detailed work i have decided to give her skin some daemonic areas or maybe i thought to make it look more daemonic in the end.I did prepare my colours i needed for the dots. From bright to dark. Started with the 1st Light in the Skintoneset by Andrea, a tip of tentacle pink, a dip of warlock purple, a dip of liche purple and finally a small tip of chaos black... prepared it looks like this:
... and dipped one tip into the colour i want to make a dot with. Take care that the colours are a bit thinned with water, but not too much, because the tip of the toothpick gets to blurry when making a dot. I thin it like after having taking the colour up, there are 3~5 dots available from the pick, before i have to take some more colours. Then dotting time begins... patience is needed:
I have tried to fit in the lighter dots to the brighter areas on the model - the darker ones in the shadow areas. You can also cut your toothpick's tip a bit too make the dots even more sharper and smaller.
The actual progress of the daemonette with millions of dots and way too much time spended in them, but i like how they turn out in the end. Guess there is still some time in painting on the Daemonette but soon i'll be finished... too quick pictures again, sorry a bit blurry, take good ones when the model is finished.
I am always testing a dot before i go to the miniature and if your finger looks like this you have been patient:
Happy Doting! Sure you can also do this with a brush on smaller models, an accurate tip of it and a ton of concentration helps. The good thing about the toothpick is that you can use more or less pressure and the dots stay mostly the same seize. With a brush there can be some accidents more easier - this is how smaller dots with a brush can look like:
Keep on happy painting!
Regards
Roman
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For an even more demonic-like effect you can use your base colour to paint another Little dot inside the first one! The effect Looks pretty cool and doesn't take too Long once you have done a few dots