PAINTING
The figure painting follows my well known method of
working from dark to light shaded up from a black
undercoat. This three or more colour painting method
uses successive tones of colour (shade, middle and
light) which are added to the model in layers, working up
from dark to light. This creates a bold three-dimensional
effect of shadows and highlights, the layers of colour
giving greater depth and subtlety to the model. For the
facial detail and for the eyes I used an Insane Detail
brush. For the rest of the model I used a Warpaints
Detail brush.
THE EMPRESS
Although I didn’t have an illustration of The Empress to
work from, her style of clothing and headdress is very
reminiscent of a 19th century Mongolian Princess in
traditional robes (also not to dissimilar to a certain queen
in a galaxy far-far-away!). So I based her costume on
that, making sure I had lots of gold decoration and trying
to keep my colour palate for her very much Chinese in
style.
EYES & FLESH
The Empress, has a very smooth face as you would
expect, almost mask like, but she does have well defined
eyes and facial features.
I wanted the Chinese Company to have a noticeably
different skin tone from the Europeans and Egyptians so
planned my painting accordingly, the skin tone is slightly
exaggerated but I think it needs to be so that it is
noticeable, on such a tiny model on the tabletop.
EYES
1.
Her whites are AP-WP1102 - Matt White
2.
The irises are pure AP-WP1124 - Oak Brown
working from dark to light shaded up from a black
undercoat. This three or more colour painting method
uses successive tones of colour (shade, middle and
light) which are added to the model in layers, working up
from dark to light. This creates a bold three-dimensional
effect of shadows and highlights, the layers of colour
giving greater depth and subtlety to the model. For the
facial detail and for the eyes I used an Insane Detail
brush. For the rest of the model I used a Warpaints
Detail brush.
THE EMPRESS
Although I didn’t have an illustration of The Empress to
work from, her style of clothing and headdress is very
reminiscent of a 19th century Mongolian Princess in
traditional robes (also not to dissimilar to a certain queen
in a galaxy far-far-away!). So I based her costume on
that, making sure I had lots of gold decoration and trying
to keep my colour palate for her very much Chinese in
style.
EYES & FLESH
The Empress, has a very smooth face as you would
expect, almost mask like, but she does have well defined
eyes and facial features.
I wanted the Chinese Company to have a noticeably
different skin tone from the Europeans and Egyptians so
planned my painting accordingly, the skin tone is slightly
exaggerated but I think it needs to be so that it is
noticeable, on such a tiny model on the tabletop.
EYES
1.
Her whites are AP-WP1102 - Matt White
2.
The irises are pure AP-WP1124 - Oak Brown
FLESH
1.
AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown
2.
AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown
plus AP-WP1121 - Desert Yellow
3.
plus AP-WP1102 - Matt White
4.
plus AP-WP1102 - Matt White
5.
plus more AP-WP1102 - Matt White
Cheeky
I added a tiny amount of AP-WP1104 - Pure Red to the
final flesh mix and painted her cheeks in, just to give a
touch of rouged femininity, then added a touch more AP-
WP1104 - Pure Red and painted in her bottom lip to
finishe the face.
FINGERNAILS
She does have very long and potentially poisoned
fingernails. But they are nicely done and easy to pick out
in your desired colour. I did consider doing them painted
in a bold colour, but I figured she had plenty of colours on
her already, so in the end went for “natural”.
1.
AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown
plus AP-WP1125 - Skeleton Bone
2.
pure AP-WP1125 - Skeleton Bone
3.
plus AP-WP1102 - Matt White
4.
plus more AP-WP1102 - Matt White
final flesh mix and painted her cheeks in, just to give a
touch of rouged femininity, then added a touch more AP-
WP1104 - Pure Red and painted in her bottom lip to
finishe the face.
FINGERNAILS
She does have very long and potentially poisoned
fingernails. But they are nicely done and easy to pick out
in your desired colour. I did consider doing them painted
in a bold colour, but I figured she had plenty of colours on
her already, so in the end went for “natural”.
1.
AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown
plus AP-WP1125 - Skeleton Bone
2.
pure AP-WP1125 - Skeleton Bone
3.
plus AP-WP1102 - Matt White
4.
plus more AP-WP1102 - Matt White
