Dominic Heutelbeck

This miniature was a straight paint up. But I will make some comments about some things of the paint job that I think are interesting.

The stripes on the fur cloak where done by painting solid lines of dark brown onto the cloak. Then I quickly cleaned the brush and blended the edges into the surrounding fur with the clean damp brush. This is very easy because of the texture of the fur.

The blade of the sword was first painted in plain GW Mithril Silver. Then I applied several thin layers of a mix of RP Dark Blue and GW Brown Ink to establish the shadows. Finally I blended back to mithril silver with a strongly thinned version of the silver paint in several layers. All these layers (shading and highlighting) where again smoothed out with a clean damp brush.

The golden parts where simply shaded with several layers of GW Brown Ink.

The skin was done with GW skin colors

The hair was painted RP Dark Blue and highlighted with this color plus some white. Then it was washed with GW Storm Blue.

The main idea behind the choice of colors was that I didn't want her to be blonde. So I chose a more exotic color. Watching Japanese animes brought be to the conclusion that almost any color will make a cool hair color in a fantasy setting. Well, it is not very realistic but looks quite nice in my opinion.

Dominic Heutelbeck