Test Colour Scheme

Seanzala · Post by **Seanzala** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:57 am

Hey,

Tell me what you think of this colour scheme. The Warrior was whipped up pretty quickly so the quality of the painting isn't that great, the Hag is a little better though. Anyway, yeah, tell me what you think, mainly about the scheme.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a334/ ... CF0185.jpg
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http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a334/ ... CF0177.jpg
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http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a334/ ... CF0179.jpg

Thanks in advance

Sean

Oxygen · Post by **Oxygen** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:05 am

So are you going for a Red / Black kind of theme? They look ok, i'm just a bit thrown on how dark your scheme is and how light there skin tone is. It looks kind of odd, almost like there hands look like bones. Do you have a pic of the hag's cloak? Other than that your painting style is quite nice, keep it up!

Post by **Layne** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:14 am

Whipped up a bit too quick I daresay. I'm not sure what it is you're trying to do with the black/grey armour. If you mean to do a sort of black NMM, then it can work, but there are probably better ways of doing it. I'd suggest plain black with a wash of black ink. I don't know if that works with the new washes, having just got some yesterday and sod up my first attempt.

If you're hoping to focus more on grey then it's a bit tense. It will be difficult to get the tones just right. I don't think your skin tones are necessarily too dark. Later when you do a more labour-intensive one with basetones and midtones and all, it might look just fine.

Good luck with it.

Rippermcguirl · Post by **Rippermcguirl** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:11 pm

I'm a fan of silver and dark red, personally. I like the fact that their skin is way lighter, it stands out well. Overall they look evil and scary.

Phierlihy · Post by **Phierlihy** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:12 pm

Since I think you've mentioned not to cover the paint quality, red and...black?...silver?...is fine. But making reds looks smooth and well painted can be daunting. Based upon the paint job of these models, you may want to try an easier, darker colour.

Sarcon · Post by **Sarcon** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:58 pm

Mix some blues throught your greys, or give it a thourough badab black wash, then your colourscheme will work really good. Right now the problem is that the Grey looks too much like the metallics, and therefore it looks sort of dull. But that's no problem, it is easily solved!

Seanzala · Post by **Seanzala** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:50 pm

Thanks guys. I'll try to get some pictures in better light that better show the colours that I was going for. I'm having to get used to a new camera that is supposedly better, but I'm not quite used to it yet. I've had to fiddle around with the settings and the aperture just to get them so they can be seen. Also, I don't know how much of an army will get done in this scheme. I have around 4000-5000pts of Dark Elves in another scheme, I was just seeing what people thought of this one. Who knows, I may do a small force in it anyway.

Uman · Post by **Uman** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:52 pm

I quite like it, the witches would look quite goth/vamp if they are going to be like the Hag.... I like that look though

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