Round Three Report from Abstracity - Part 2

Minidragon continues:

Shot 5 shows the result of another wash of black. This wash was more selective - you can see that one half of the sword tip is darker, along with part of the first 1/3 of the blade. The runes in the sword fuller (groove) and the scales got a bit more definition here as well.

Next we see a picture showing a highlight of thinned Partha Paints Silver. I used this to pick out high points and to define the runes and sword blade more. The scales got highlights on their tips and some long edges. This picture also shows that the gold bits got painted. I didn't get shots of that process, so you'll have to wait for the next mini to find out about my method for gold bits.

I worked on the kilt next. I started with a dark green base. Next, I painted on thin black lines followed by thin dark blue lines. These lines were painted both vertically and horizontally. I had a rudimentary tartan at this point, but it needed more definition - so I mixed up a light green and put "dashes of this color in the boxes of my grid. To finish it up, I added a touch of white to my dark blue, then some green for good measure, and painted very fine lines inside the dark blue lines that I'd already painted. Voila! A fairly convincing tartan is born!

Shot 8 shows a spotty coat of gray painted onto the wolf pelt. I left some of the brown showing on purpose - look at pictures of wolves, many times they've got quite a few different colors. Leaving some brown was my way of capturing that.