Godtear Ascended Pledge Painting by Lawnor
12/01/20
The plan for the weekend was to finish off Rattlebone and then base and varnish the current batch. However, I started thinking about how I was going to paint Raith Marid and decided I would follow one of Duncan’s Skink guides as I had no better ideas and thought I might learn something new so now he’s mostly painted and basing and varnishing can wait for him.
While watching that guide I noticed another video for painting cool looking jade weapons. I was concerned about painting his armour steel and the blades steel so now I’m thinking this could break up the model and I’m keen to try this guide on something. Any thoughts? Also, what colour should I paint the shoulder gem, or his cloth/leather?
I’ve plugged my skin tones in to a colour wheel app as best as I can and here’s the results. I’m thinking I make the coins on the skirt copper and the sash a yellow / yellowy-brown. The skirt should likely be a generic leather matching the material on the bracers as a neutral background?
Looks grand mate. I’d go with red for the cloth and gem so it contrasts with his skin (the other major colour) but if you go some other way I am sure you’ll do an excellent job of it.
I saw your post and it got me thinking. I was sure yellow was the contrasting colour to blue so I went to a colour wheel to check what it said. The results are above. Seems blue-green does stray in to contrasting with red. I’m thinking the red will be copper for the skirt-coins, and maybe the hilts? I think this makes the gem orange in the dark parts and yellow in the light parts?