A journey into Gnarlwood
Two sample pieces
I chose these to be two sample pieces as I thought they offered a good range of the materials that the whole set is made from, but also quite self-contained so if anything changed across all the trees it wouldn’t matter too much.
Here’s what I did:
- Skeleton Horde contrast over all the bone
- Once dry, drybrush with Wraithbone
- Wyldwood contrast over the tree/branch
- Once dry, drybrush at the base/roots with Wraithbone, fading up as you go
- Mix some Blood Angels Red contrast with contrast medium and paint over the lower parts of the tree, fading out as you go
- Snakebite Leather contrast over the bamboo, using a damp brush to lift the paint between the knuckles
- Plaguebearer contrast on the bamboo and some of the bone to make an algae effect, deepened with Warp Lightning and blended through in a few corners.
That sounds like a lot, and I’ll cover in more detail how I did the bamboo in a future post – but it was surprisingly quick to get to a good finish, and very repeatable across the rest of the pieces.
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