Strictly Average: Creating a Blood-Soaked Monstrous Base

3.14.2013

Creating a Blood-Soaked Monstrous Base

Or rather, did this work??

As strange as this sounds, I've never really tried the 'soaked in blood' base idea. So I started from white...

...but in hindsight a nice coat of red over that would have been a better base to work from. I just started layering on different glazes and washes and such. Not only did it take forever to dry, it required multiple layers and waaaaay too much paint / glaze / wash... you get the idea.

Here's a pic of the final product, without using the flash on the camera. Since it looked more 'muddy rust' than 'fresh blood'...

I layered on some 'Ard Coat for the shine.

Here's the work-in-progress miniature, which I'm trying to paint using James Wappel's method of putting down midtones before shadows then highlights. At this point, I was really just started. Should be done tomorrow.

As I look at these pictures, it still needs some cleaning up - anyone got any good ideas for an easier way to do this?

5 comments:

TheGraveMind said...: for the blood, just get some water effect, and add some dye/paint to it to make it red. easiest way and should look "fresh"; March 14, 2013 at 9:52 PM
Spifferson said...: I would try out some Tamiya Clear Red X-27. It is a good red for blood and gore although my experience with it is limited to smaller blood effects then an entire base.; March 14, 2013 at 11:09 PM
Zab said...: I second the tamyia clear read. Purchase some UHU adhesive online too and you can have great fun creating sticky stringy partially dried blood :); March 15, 2013 at 9:57 AM
Zab said...: Blood tutorial here:

http://chestofcolors.com/something-about-painting-blood/

so much fun ;); March 15, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Brent said...: Thanks guys - I'm going to check out all of these suggestions...

...first up being the link.; March 15, 2013 at 12:44 PM

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3.14.2013

Creating a Blood-Soaked Monstrous Base

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