I've painted this figure called "A murder of Crows." by Reaper in 28mm. I've painted the beaks red as in heraldry, but the crows black is just that black. Photo gives more detail then one sees in room light. Suggestions on how to give some detail and separation to the figures?
I'd heavily dry brush the black with a very dark grey, then lightly drybrush again with a grey just a touch lighter, that should help bring the detail out without losing the black effect.
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A heavy drybrush with a dark blue can also work wonders, giving a deep blue/black hue. If you can pick out the eys with a dab of white, they would help too.
ReplyDeleteSingle-color figures (or portions of figures) are always problematic that way. I'd definitely go with one of the dry-brush techniques suggested by Ray or Paul. I might also recommend, if you have any "scrap" figures lying around, to do a test run on that first just to see what different dry-brush combinations will look like before applying the color to your actual model above. Usually when I buy packs of figures, there are one or two whose pose or sculpt I'm not keen on, and I save them for precisely this purpose.
ReplyDeleteI usually go for dark grey on black but I have seen figures done with dark blue that was very effective.
ReplyDeleteThanks all for the tips!
ReplyDeleteGood suggestions here. I would drybrush dark grey as well and pick one or maybe two out and do a dark blue drybrush. I think with this sort of single-colour models it is always nice to have 'the odd one out' (is that a correct expression?) to make it stand out and make it more interesting to look at. Yo can also vary the heaviness of the drybrush to make some lighter/darker.
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