"Praetor-Tribune" project log, part 6: the lollipop sword
In the last part of the project, I will touch on one more important focal point of the our praetor miniature, which is the sword. I decided to do his blade is bright red and very contrast both in light and in color. This scheme is very similar to the one I used when painting crystals on the Demonsmith's base last year, but it has some changes.
Firstly, I finally bought my favorite Basic Red from Andrea Color (and a few more of their colors), which I'm incredibly happy with. And secondly, the shape of the blade forced alternating two variants of red, to achieve greater contrast.
I note that from the point of view of the display light and color on the blade a certain number of errors are allowed. But they are made deliberately to increase the contrast between the surfaces. In addition, after a series of tests, it was decided to abandon the glowing stones on the blade and reduce the OSL effect a minimum (because of which it was half repainted one hand)
The Light. Here everything is standard, as for the previous parts. First I chose the place for the main highlight and made a shadows, midlights, additionals light and reflexes. The most important of which I proceeded - with fracture surface should be strong contrast. This visually emphasizes the shape and along with the color makes the blade of the sword a focal point.
Colour. When working with the blade, in addition to the contrast of light and shadow, I decided to add a color contrast between the surfaces. The brightest part will be cold red (due to white), the second - a warm yellow-orange. You can notice that one of the surfaces is partially made in one grade, partly in another. In this case, I sacrificed "correctness" for the sake of greater contrast and dramatic effect.
As the base color for the "cold" part, I used Dark Red (Andrea Color) sequentially flashed through pure Basic Red (AC) to Scarlet (VMC). For final highlights and highlights, I used a mixture of Scarlett and Pearl White (P88), which gradually added white. In addition, as far as highlighting, I periodically made Basic Red frosting to keep a cool red tint.
The base color for the warm part was a mixture of black and Dark Vermillion (VMC), which was consistently bleached from the beginning to the pure Dark Vermillion, and then to Scarlet. The final highlightings were made by a mixture of Scarlet and Amarantha Red (both VMCs).
Previous Parts:
The second part of this project log will be devoted to the part of the work that I very rarely show: the color scheme tests. For this miniature, I've done a lot of tests to see which color combination works best for this project. Bigger part of time was spent on the tests of the color scheme for the dead legionary on the base. I tried six color schemes to display a different Legiones Astartes: the yellow and black schemes of the Imperial Fists, the turquoise for the Alpha Legion, the standard iron for the Iron Warriors, and the two color schemes for the Emperor's Children legion, purple and violet. Unfortunately I took photos of the part of this process. As a result of these tests, the stand will be washed, slightly reworked, and repainted in the color of the Emperor's Children
Вторая часть дневников проектов будет посвещена той части работы которую я очень редко показываю, а именно подбору цветовой схемы. Для этой миниатюры я сделал множество тестов, чтобы конять какое сочетание цветов лучше подойдет для данного проекта. Особенно много времени занял подбор цветовой схемы для мертвого легионера на подставке. Я попробовал шесть цветовых схем для отображения разныз легионов: желтая и черная схемы Имперских Кулаков, бирюзовдве схемы под легион Детех Императора, более фиолетовая и пурпурная. К сожалению я сделал фотографии долько части этого процесса. По итогам этих тестов, подставка будет отмыта, немного переделана, и перекрашена в цвете Детей Императора.
