Avicenna Paints Guild Ball Busts

The first of the busts I have tackled is Rage from The Union. I picked this guy first because he looked like he had great character in his face and I thought the level of detail would be a good challenge to really push me.

I started with a bit of research into the character and the colours he might wear. I found this photo.

So the plan was to go with a purpley-grey coat, and then a dark red cravat, and the rest I decided to go with however I felt once I’d got that far!

The first thing for me to tackle before any of that was his face. This is a typical place for me to start as I like to really set the tone for the miniature and get a bit of life into the model to keep me interested and excited about the way it progresses.

I haven’t really got any step by step photos as I tend to work a lot of the time ‘wet on wet’ mixing and blending colours directly onto the model – at some point I hope to do a video, but I’m not quite there yet.

In all of these busts, I have gone for “custom” mixed flesh tones to try and emphasize the different characters in each of the models.

These are the colours I’ve used in the flesh and the quantities are White>>Yellow>Red>>>Blue>Black

I went for some fluorescent paint on his cigar to really make it pop 🙂

The next step was his cravat and coat – the cravatte was mixed from the red on the palette from the flesh tones plus some of the pale flesh for the highlights and the coat was Daemonette Hide and highlighted with Slaanesh Grey

I decided to break the colour up by giving him a leather top hat rather than the purple in the artwork. This allowed me to get a little more texture into the paint job and I included a lot of stippling to try and bring that worn leather feeling out.

I also added texture into the blade as I wanted it to appear like a really well worn butchers cleaver.

Some tweaking and about 5 different colours on his cuffs, and I finally got somewhere.