Crazyredcoat's Crazy Compendium of Collected Creativity
"I am a lioness. I will not cringe for them."
Not sure why I’m being so productive at the moment, but Cersei’s gown is finished. This is a large part of the mini so she looks almost done, but I do plan to spend some time on the skin for her. As described earlier, I went for a green colour, but as the gown is so much of the mini, I made the colours a bit varied on the bodice and sleeves while still have them work together.
Starting with a basecoat of WAAAGH! Flesh (I did check how many A's were there before typing) over everything, this sets some nice recesses in the folds of the fabric. Having a unified basecoat colour also helps the slight variations to still work well together.
Next an all over shade of Biel-Tan Green over the gown. This helped keep the greenness of the gown while still adding shade, though it is more subtle than a black shade would have been.
Next I started with the first deviation of tones. I layered Warboss Green over the bodice and sleeves, ignoring the darker recesses, brightening these areas up a touch.
Then, still with Warboss Green, the lower part of the gown was edge highlighted. If you were using a different colour, you may want to layer the base colour first, but when I did that on some of the few flatter areas there wasn't a big enough difference in colour. The Biel-Tan shade is very subtle here.
Next with Nurgling Green (very thin in my case) I edge highlighted the sleeves and bodice while extreme highlighting the lower gown with this colour (just dotting the paint more than painting it). This continued the darker tone on the lower gown and, with the exception of one spot on the knee area, finished it.
Then I did some extreme highlights on the lighter areas with Screaming Skull. Very small touches of this otherwise the colour can quickly turn beige. I also added a touch of this to the knee to help show off that area where she is slightly pulling up her gown along the knee... Floozie!
Finally the trim was basecoated in Retributor Armour...
...and highlighted with Liberator Gold. I think that simple touch of shine really makes the whole thing stand out. Next up is the skin and hair, so stay tuned...or whatever.
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